News

Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published a new status report of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, covering the period October 2004-March 2005.

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that after the Public Comment period that took place in February 2005, the DCMI Abstract Model is now published as a DCMI Recommendation.

The Call for Papers and Call for Exhibitors for DC-2005, to be hosted by the University Carlos III of Madrid in Legans (Madrid) on 12-15 September 2005, are available on the conference Web site, http://dc2005.

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the DCMI Abstract Model is now available for public comment as a Proposed Recommendation.

The Organizing Committee of DC-2005, to be hosted by the University Carlos III of Madrid in Legans (Madrid) on 12-15 September 2005, has opened the conference Web site, http://dc2005.

This workshop, to be held in Göttingen, Germany from 28 February through 2 March 2005, is divided into three thematic blocks.

The DCMI Metadata Terms and the Reference description of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1 have been republished with some minor editorial changes, repairing two links to the specifications of ISO3166 and MIME.

The DCMI Directorate, in consultation with the DCMI Advisory Board, has appointed Andrew Wilson of the National Archives of Australia and John Roberts of Archives New Zealand as chairs of the DCMI Agents Working Group, taking over from John Kunze and Stuart Weibel.

The DCMI Directorate is very pleased to announce that DC-2005, next year's International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, will take place 12-15 September 2005 at the University Carlos III of Madrid at its Leganés campus just south of Madrid.

DC-2004, this year's International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications, that took place in Shanghai, China from 11 to 14 October was a great success.