DC 1.1: Proposed Recommendation (fwd)

[Roy Tennant]

Forwarded with permission.
Roy 

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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 12:34:37 -0400 
From: "Weibel,Stu" <weibel at oclc.org>
To: "'dc-general at mailbase.ac.uk'" <dc-general at mailbase.ac.uk>
Subject: DC 1.1: Proposed Recommendation 

Folks,

The Dublin Core Directorate is pleased to announce that a set of revised
element definitions (Dublin Core Elements, Version 1.1) has been completed
and is available for public review and comment as a Proposed Recommendation
of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1>.

This revision process is an important component of the Dublin Core workplan
that emerged from the Sixth Dublin Core Workshop in November of 1998.  The
goal of the process was to review and modify Dublin Core element definitions
to improve their clarity and to express them in a standard format for data
dictionaries (the ISO/IEC 11179 standard) to facilitate interoperability and
mapping to other element sets.

Special thanks are due to Renato Iannella and Paul Miller (editors of the
revisions), the chairs of DC element-specific Working Groups (who managed
the revision reviews for each of the elements), and the members of the
Working Groups, who committed their time and judgement to the task.

Thanks are also due to the Dublin Core Advisory Committees for reviewing the
work, debating it, and serving as community sentinels to assure that the
changes do not violate the underlying consensus about element semantics that
has emerged over the previous 4 years.

Following a period of public review, these modified definitions will replace
those of RFC 2413 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2413.txt> as the official
Dublin Core Element definitions.  These definitions will also serve as the
base document that will be submitted for standardization by CEN, the
European standards organization, and NISO, the North American standards
organization.

The deadline for public comments is July 31, 1999, after which the Dublin
Core Advisory Committee will, in conjunction with the editors, issue the
final version as a Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Recommendation.

Stuart Weibel
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Senior Research Scientist
OCLC Office of Research
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