News

This issue evolved in cooperation with the organizers and the program committee of DC-2001, the International conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications held in Tokyo, Japan.

the Usage Board announces the availability for review and public comment of a proposal for a new Audience element qualifier submitted to the Board by the DC-Education Working Group.

The Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI) announces its first Board of Trustees, formed to provide strategic leadership and support to the organization.

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that newly modified versions of the Draft Recommendations for RDF/XML expression of the Dublin Core™ are now available for a second round of Public Comment until January 7, 2002.

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that HTML and PowerPoint versions of presentations given at the Conference in Tokyo are now available on the DCMI web site.

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the document "Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI)" is now a DCMI Recommendation.

Makx Dekkers, DCMI Managing Director, has published the next status report of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative, looking at all activities that have taken place since the DC-8 Workshop in Ottawa, October 2000, until the DC-9 Workshop and DC-2001 Conference in Tokyo in October 2001.

This document is a revision of the earlier application profile that clarifies the use of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set in libraries and library-related applications and projects.

The October 2001 issue of the DCMI Update is now available. The newsletter highlights news items, project and tool announcements that have occured since the last issue.

Further to the announcement of 18 September, there are now two more documents available for public comment,. " Expressing Simple Dublin Core™ in RDF/XML" and