2008-10-06, The DCMI Directorate and the National Library of Korea are pleased to announce that DC-2009, the ninth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will be held at the National Digital Library in Seoul, Korea, from 12 through 16 October 2009.

2008-11-03, The new DCMI Working Draft "Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles" describes the key components of an application profile and walks the reader through the process of designing a profile. Addressed primarily to a non-technical audience, the guidelines also provide a technical appendix about modeling the metadata interoperably for use in linked data environments. This draft will be revised in response to feedback from readers. Interested members of the public are invited to post comments by 1 December 2008 to the DC-GENERAL mailing list, including "[Public Comment]" in the subject line.

2008-11-03, "Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata", published today as a DCMI Working Draft, discusses the modeling choices involved in designing metadata applications for different types of interoperability. At Level 1, applications use data components with shared natural-language definitions. At Level 2, data is based on the formal-semantic model of the W3C Resource Description Framework. At Level 3, data is structured as Description Sets (i.e., as records). At Level 4, data content is subject to a shared set of constraints (as described in a Description Set Profile). Conformance tests and examples are provided for each level. The Working Draft represents work in progress for which the authors seek feedback. Interested members of the public are invited to post comments by 1 December 2008 to the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list, including "[Public Comment]" in the subject line.

2008-10-06, At the DCMI Advisory Board meeting in Berlin on 27 September 2008, the DCMI Tools Community announced that Seth Van Hooland of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, will replace Jane Greenberg as co-moderator of the group. In the DCMI Social Tagging Community, Liddy Nevile will hand over to Eva Méndez of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, and Ana Alice Baptista of the Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Seth and Ana have also become members of the DCMI Advisory Board. It was also decided at the meeting of the Advisory Board to deactivate the DCMI Date Task Group.

2008-10-06, "A MoinMoin Wiki Syntax for Description Set Profiles" has been published as a DCMI Working Draft. Using this syntax, editors can embed constraint information about application profiles into normal Wiki documents and extract this information using an Open Source MoinMoin Wiki tool for display in XML. This functionality is illustrated by the MoinMoin Wiki document for the Scholarly Works Application Profile.

2008-09-01, The DCMI Directorate, in co-operation with the moderators of DCMI Communities and leaders of DCMI Task Groups, has issued a new six-month Status Report for the period March to September 2008. <Read the report...>