DCMI News 2010

2010-08-30, The slides from the Joint NISO/DCMI Webinar "Dublin Core: The Road from Metadata Formats to Linked Data" held on 25 August 2010 are now available at the Metadata Training Resources page.

2010-08-30, Two new DCMI Task Groups have been formed: the DCMI User Guide Task Group that will work on a revision of the popular but outdated document "Using Dublin Core" and the DCMI Abstract Model Review Task Group that will prepare a review of the DCMI Abstract Model, both for discussion at DC-2010 in October 2010. Discussion will take place on the DC-Glossary and DC-Architecture mailing lists, respectively. Participation by interested members of the Dublin Core community is welcomed and encouraged; please contact Tom Baker for further information.

2010-08-16, Further details have been added to the program and the description of the sessions at DC-2010, the tenth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 20-22 October 2010. Additional details of the sessions of DCMI Communities and Task Groups will be posted on the DCMI mailing lists and Wikis. Online registration is open; early-bird discount is available until 10 September 2010.

2010-08-16, This year, we will be offering presentation opportunities at DC-2010 for DCMI Partners. If your organization is interested to become a DCMI Partner and present your product or service that is built on Dublin Core metadata, please contact DCMI at info@dublincore.org with "Partnership" in the subject line.

2010-07-27, The organizing committee of DC-2010, the tenth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 20-22 October 2010, has published an update to the program for the event. More meetings of DCMI Communities and Task Groups have been added and more details are now included for these meetings and the special sessions. Please register online; early-bird discount is available until 10 September 2010.

2010-07-15, Tom Baker and Makx Dekkers will be presenting a Webinar on 25 August 2010 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. US Eastern Time (UTC 17:00-18:30) under the title "Dublin Core: The Road from Metadata Formats to Linked Data". Further details and registration information are available at the NISO Web site.

2010-06-17, The organizing committee of DC-2010, the tenth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 20-22 October 2010, has published the preliminary program for the event. On Wednesday 20 October there will be Tutorials by Jane Greenberg, Jon Phipps, Karen Coyle and Ron Daniel, and Task Group meetings; on Thursday 21 October, a keynote by Stu Weibel and Conference Papers, Project Reports, Community meetings and Special Sessions; on Friday 22 October, a keynote by Mike Bergman and Conference Papers, Community meetings and Special Sessions. We expect to publish the final program in the course of July. On-line registration is now open with early-bird discount available until 10 September 2010.

2010-06-17, A new DCMI Task Group has been established on the issue of Metadata Provenance. The group aims to define an application profile that allows for making assertions about description statements or description sets, creating a shared model of the data elements required to describe an aggregation of metadata statements in order to collectively import, access, use and publish facts about the quality, rights, timeliness, data source type, trust situation, etc. of the described statements. The Task Group is led by Kai Eckert of the University of Mannheim and Michael Panzer of OCLC who have become members of the DCMI Advisory Board.

2010-05-21, The organising committee of DC-2010, the tenth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 20-22 October 2010, is pleased to announce that Stu Weibel of OCLC and Mike Bergman of Structured Dynamics LLC have agreed to be keynote speakers at the conference. We expect to announce the preliminary program and the start of online registration around mid-June.

2010-05-21, Documentation for DCMI Metadata Terms is currently published as a Web document and as an RDF schema to which term URIs, such as http://purl.org/dc/terms/title, are redirected. The Vocabulary Management Tool which is used to generate these documents has now been published as an open source project on the Web-based hosting service Github. DCMI would like to modify the system to generate the user-oriented Web document with an embedded RDF representation using a W3C standard, RDFa. Interested members of the open-source community are invited to adapt the tool for their vocabularies, help improve the code on Github, or discuss related issues on the mailing list of the DCMI Architecture Forum.

2010-04-15, The deadline for submissions for DC-2010, the tenth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 20-22 October 2010, passed on 9 April. The Program Committee received Full Papers, Project Reports, and Posters from more than a dozen countries, from a variety of organizations including universities and research institutes, national libraries, museums, state archives, financial institutions, and governmental and international agencies. Author notification for the conference is set for 11 May 2010.

2010-03-29, The Organizing Committee for DC-2010 is happy to announce that the deadline for submissions for DC-2010, to be held 20-22 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, has been extended to 9 April 2010. We are looking forward to your contributions!

2010-03-29, The DCMI Managing Director has published the semestral March 2010 DCMI Status Report.

2010-03-29, We are welcoming Paul Walk, deputy director of UKOLN, University of Bath, as a member of the DCMI Advisory Board.

2010-03-29, DCMI has become a co-sponsor for Balisage, the annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information, to be held in Montréal, Canada, 3-6 August 2010. DCMI participants are eligible for discount registration.

2010-03-15, Please note that the deadline (2 April 2010) for the Call for Papers for DC-2010, to be held 20-22 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, is rapidly approaching. We are looking forward to your submissions for full papers, project reports and posters/demonstrations.

2010-03-15, A number of changes have taken place over the last couple of weeks in the leadership of three DCMI Communities: Andrew Wilson of the Australian National Data Service was appointed co-moderator of the DCMI Preservation Community; Sarah Hartmann of the German National Library replaced Christine Frodl as co-moderator of the DCMI Libraries Community; and Muriel Foulonneau of Centre Henri Tudor in Luxembourg took over from Ann Apps as moderator of the DCMI Collection Description Community. Sarah Hartmann has joined the DCMI Advisory Board.

2010-02-16, The full, edited meeting notes for the Usage Board meeting of 16 October 2009 in Seoul are available. Aside from routine maintenance issues, there was discussion about possibly re-orienting the Board towards the periodic review of basic user-oriented guidelines.

2010-01-18, The slides from the Tutorial "Dublin Core: building blocks for interoperability" held in Florence, Italy on 17 December 2009 and sponsored by the DCMI Local Tutorial Partner Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale are now available at the Metadata Training Resources page.

2010-01-18, To provide a lower threshold for organizations willing to contribute financially to DCMI, we have added a new level to the DCMI Partnership Program: the Supporter level. Please see the DCMI Partnership Program page for further details.

2010-01-18, DCMI is pleased to announce that the Metadata Research Center, School of Library and Information Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has joined the DCMI Partnership Program as a DCMI Supporter as of 1 January 2010.