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This meeting was an official DCMI-Libraries WG event that was held in conjunction with the International Federation of Library Associations conference.

A working draft for a DCMI-Government Application Profile is now available. This working draft was prepared by the Managing Information for e-Government (MIReG) group in conjunction with the DCMI-Government working group.

The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the document "Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative (DCMI)" is now available for public comment until October 19, 2001.

After the MIReG conference in Brussels, Belgium (see http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida) it was decided to set up an Advisory Board and develop a "EU Government Metadata Framework".

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

The ExLibris Special Collections Directory seeks to provide a comprehensive directory of special collections libraries that support digitization and make content such as manuscripts, art images, and electronic texts available over the Internet.

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

The Biblioteca de Catalunya has translated the Dublin Core™ Element set, v. 1.1 and the Dublin Core™ Qualifiers. These translations are now available on the Library's web site.

WebArchiv is a project funded by the Czech Ministry of Culture. It has two main objectives: to catalogue online publications and to integrate these records into the Czech National Bibliography and to store these publications to ensure long term access.

An official meeting of the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative Libraries Working Group (DCMI-LibWG) will be held at during the IFLA meeting on August 22, 2001.