Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and developing specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative provides simple standards to facilitate the finding, sharing and management of information. DCMI does this by:

Developing and maintaining international standards for describing resources;
Supporting a worldwide community of users and developers;
Promoting widespread use of Dublin Core (DC) solutions.

The development and maintenance of a core set of metadata terms (the DCMI Metadata Terms) continues to be one of the main activities of DCMI. In addition, DCMI is developing guidelines and procedures to help implementers define and describe their usage of Dublin Core metadata in the form of Application Profiles.

Collaboration:

The participation of D4Science in the discussions and decisions of the Dublin Core is vital to assure interoperability between the systems and networks powered by D4Science and the broad Open Access community using DC. DC Application Profiles are main instruments to ensure interoperability between web systems. D4Science will not only use them, but also influence them, when the need arises. D4Science participates in the DC initiative through FAO. FAO has participated in every major Dublin Core conference since 2001. It has developed an extension to Dublin Core (an application profile) for the needs of the agricultural community. Known as the Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES), it uses all of the Dublin Core element set and adds agriculture specific extensions.

Project web site:

http://dublincore.org

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