News
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce the publication of the By-laws of DCMI. These By-laws define all roles, responsibilities and procedures involved in the governance of DCMI and, as such, serve as a basic description of the organization and its functioning.
The Usage Board is pleased to announce the approval of two new terms -- "License" and "Rights Holder" -- with the status of "conforming".
Diane Hillmann has graciously agreed to become Co-chair of the DCMI Education Working Group, replacing Paul Miller who stepped down from that position recently.
In addition to the links to RDF metadata on all pages on the DCMI Web site, we now also have embedded metadata on our pages, following the recommendation for XHTML encoding of Dublin Core™ metadata.
Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published the next status report of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, with highlights of the six months.
Three proposals submitted for consideration at the Usage Board meeting of 14-15 March 2004 in Bath are now available for Public Comment until 13 March 2004.
The Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative will hold its annual conference on Oct.11-14, 2004 at the Shanghai Library, in Shanghai China. The 2004 conference is sponsored in partnership with the Shanghai Library.
The DCMI Usage Board is pleased to announce the to the addition of two new terms, "Moving Image" and "Still Image", to the DCMI Type Vocabulary.
In a second batch after DC-2003, the Advisory Board has approved revised charters of the Accessibility, Education, Global Corporate Circle, Government, Registry and User Documentation Working Groups.
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the Expressing Dublin Core™ in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements is now a DCMI Recommendation.