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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. This is a DCMI meeting and does not require IFLA registration. All DCMI-Libraries WG participants and IFLA attendees are welcome. Advance registration is requested.
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 in the months of May and June 2001.
The DCMI Tools workshop was held on June 20-22, 2001 in Osnabrck, Germany. The list of participants, background information and the minutes are now available from the Workshop website http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/projects/dctools/.
The conference "Managing Information Resources for e-Government" was held on June 21-22, 2001 in Brussels, Belgium. The conference was arranged by the DCMI Government Working Group in collaboration with the European Commission and the European Parliament to explore the possibility of developing a framework for the use of metadata across European governments and parliaments. The notes and presentations from this conference are now available. http://ag.idaprog.org/Indis35prod/doc/312
The DCMI Directorate has been informed that Z39.85 (the NISO version of the Dublin Core™ element set) has been approved and will be advanced to the American National Standards Institute in July. More Information...
The "Agricultural Metadata Standards Initiative", a collaborative effort between a number of partners in the agricultural community, the World Agricultural Information Centre of FAO, are pleased to announce a draft recommendation for a metadata specification based on the Dublin Core™ Elements and Qualifiers, as well as extensions which were considered necessary for Agricultural Information. The relative documentation has now published on the FAO web-site at http://www.fao.org/agris/MagazineArchive/magazine/TaskForceonDCMI.htm. More information on the "Agricultural Metadata Standards Initiative" can be found at http://www.oneworld.org/thinktank/iktools/agstandards.html or by contacting Mr. Stephen Katz, Chief of the WAICENT/FAOINFO Dissemination Branch at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (http://www.fao.org)
The DCMI Government Working Group in collaboration with the IDA Programme (Interchange of Data between Administrations) of the European Commission have arranged the conference "Managing Information Resources for e-Government" to be held on June 21-22, 2001 in Brussels, Belgium. The objective of the meeting is to explore the possibility of standardising the use of Metadata across European Governments and Parliaments, and to identify the resources, both technical and non-technical, that would be required to support this activity. More Information...
The DCMI Tools Workshop, to be held on Osnabrck, Germany on June 20 -22, 2001, is looking for active developers of metadata applications interested in development of (open source) software that supports (qualified) Dublin Core™ metadata and application-specific or domain specific extensions to participate. Additional information can be found on the Workshop website.
The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that the new version of "Using Dublin Core™" is now a DCMI Recommendation following the public comment period that ended May 15, 2001. This document is intended to be an entry point for users of Dublin Core™.