The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices. Learn more...
Deadline for DC-2009 Call for Papers extended to 8 May 2009
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.
DC-2009 Call for Tutorials open until 15 May 2009
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.
Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata published as DCMI Recommended Resource
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.
Revised version of International Standard ISO 15836 published