2009-04-20, The Program Committee for DC-2009, to be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009 and hosted by the National Library of Korea has extended the deadline for the submission of papers to 8 May 2009. For more information, see the Call for Papers.

2009-04-20, The chairs of the DC-2009 Tutorial Committee, John Roberts of Archives New Zealand and Heesop Kim of Kyungpook National University Korea, have published a Call for Tutorials for DC-2009, to be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009 and hosted by the National Library of Korea. It is the intention to include both Introductory and Advanced tutorials in the program, and proposals in both categories are welcome as described in the call text. The Call is open until 15 May 2009.

2009-05-01, "Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata" has been published as a Recommended Resource. The document discusses 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 (as in Linked Data). At Levels 3 and 4, data also shares syntactic constraints based on the DCMI Abstract Model. The document aims at providing a point of reference for evaluating interoperability among a variety of metadata implementations. The authors expect this document to evolve as the trade-offs and benefits of interoperability at different levels are explored and welcome feedback from its readers.

2009-03-31, A revised version of the International Standard ISO 15836 has been published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO): ISO 15836:2009 Information and documentation -- The Dublin Core metadata element set. The text of the standard has been brought in line with the January 2008 version of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set available on the DCMI Web site.

2009-03-31, The March 2009 Status Report is now available, covering the period from September 2008 through March 2009. Read the report...