Dublin Core: Latest news

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.