News

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce the publication of the new Mission Statement and revised by-laws for the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative.

The Organizing Committee of DC-2006, to be hosted by the University of Colima (Mexico) on 3-6 October 2006, has opened the conference Web site, http://dc2006.

The slides of the Tutorials that were given at DC-2005 are now available in PDF from the Training section of the DCMI Web site.

DCMI has issued a Call for Tender for brief texts and presentations explaining the rationale and business case for Dublin Core™ metadata to non-experts.

The DCMI Usage Board, together with the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, is pleased to announce the availability of a sub-set of MARC Relator terms as role properties which refine the "agent" elements of Dublin Core™ (Creator, Contributor, and Publisher).

The DCMI Usage Board has proposed some minor editorial changes to terms in the DCMI Type Vocabulary. The changes will be available for Public Comment until 31 January 2006.

In the context of the joint work item between DCMI and IEEE/LOM to develop a recommended representation of the metadata elements of the IEEE Learning Object Metadata Standard in the Dublin Core™ Abstract Model, Mikael Nilsson made a presentation to the IEEE/LOM meeting in Orlando in October 2005 outlining the approach and the current status.

Jayakumaran of Web Publishing House in Singapore has been appointed co-chair of the DCMI Global Corporate Circle and member of the DCMI Advisory Board.

In preparation for DC-2006, to be held 3-6 October 2006 in Manzanillo (Colima) in Mexico, Javier Solorio Lagunas of the University of Colima and Thomas Baker of DCMI have been appointed Program Chairs, while Lourdes Feria Basurto of the University of Colima and Makx Dekkers of DCMI have taken on responsibility as coordinators of the event.

The slides of the Tutorials that were given at DC-2005 are now available in the Training section of the DCMI Web site.