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DCMI now has a presence on Twitter. There is also a Facebook group for DCMI and a Facebook page for the DC-2009 conference.

The early-bird registration for DC-2009 to be held 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea, is now closed. On-line registration for the event at regular fees will remain open until 5 October.

Today, an updated program for DC-2009, the ninth International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, to be held 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, has been published on the conference Web site.

We are very pleased to announce that Infocom Corporation of Japan has renewed its Platinum Partnership status for another year starting 1 July 2009.

With great sadness we have learned that Rachel Heery, a long-time participant in the Dublin Core™ community and member of the DCMI Advisory Board until her retirement in 2007, passed away on 24 July 2009.

We are pleased to announce that the online registration for DC-2009, the ninth International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, to be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009, is now open.

The organizing committee for DC-2009, the ninth International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, to be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009, is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for DC-2009: Eunchul Lee, Michael Crandall and Alistair Miles.

The submission deadline for the Call for Tutorials for DC-2009 has been extended to 1 June 2009. The call remains open for proposals for Introductory and Advanced tutorials.

The DCMI Executive would like to remind organizations involved in DCMI activities of the DCMI Partnership Program. The Partnership Program is intended for organizations that want to associate themselves with DCMI and provide financial support to the activities of DCMI.

A revised "Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles" by Karen Coyle and Thomas Baker has been published as a DCMI Recommended Resource.