News
The early bird registration for DC-2008 is scheduled to open on 1 June 2008. An individual online registration system will be available on the conference Web site.
The DCMI Directorate and the chairs of the DCMI/RDA Task Group are happy to announce that The British Library has agreed to provide financial support to the activities of the DCMI/RDA Task Group.
After expiration of the two-week extension of the submission deadline, the Call for Papers for DC-2008 is now closed. A press release (in English and in German) issued by the organization committee of DC-2008 outlines the main aspects of the program.
Public Comment will be held on the Working Draft "Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles" (and accompanying XML schema for the XML representation) from 31 March through 28 April 2008.
A further press release (in English and in German) has been issued by the organization committee of DC-2008, the eighth International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 22 to 26 September 2008 under the title Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications.
The DCMI Directorate invites organizations to join the new DCMI Partnership Program. This program is intended for organizations that want to associate themselves with DCMI and provide financial support to the activities of DCMI.
The DCMI Directorate has awarded a contract to Karen Coyle to write user-oriented "Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles". The guidelines will provide an overview of recent work on a formal Description Set Profile specification in the context of the Singapore Framework for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles together with good-practice examples.
The March 2008 Status Report is now available, covering the period from August 2007 through March 2008. Read the report...
Stefanie Rhle, researcher at Gttingen State and University Library in Germany, has joined the DCMI Usage Board.
A set of XML schemas in support of the "Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core™ in XML" has been updated in light of the January 2008 release of "DCMI Metadata Terms".