[FYI] Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Update. February 2000.

[Terry Kuny]

DCMI Update
Volume 1, Number 2- February 2000

(A Summary of activities from January 2000)

Online Version: http://purl.org/dc/news/nl2000-02.htm


ACTION!

*	Dublin Core version 1.1 approved as a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA)

At last week's meeting of the CEN/ISSS Workshop on Metadata for Multimedia
Information - Dublin Core (MMI-DC), approval in unison was given for Dublin
Core version 1.1 as a CEN Workshop Agreement  (CWA). It will be published
with a foreword and with some formal changes of the references in DC 1.1.

The workshop now continues the work with Guidance Information for the use of
Dublin Core in Europe. The Guidance material is intended to bring together
documentation on the use of Dublin Core in Europe in the following areas:
	Strategic documentation (i.e.: outlining the reasons for choosing
Dublin Core or another Metadata Element Set);
	User guidelines;
	Technical implementation guidelines;

In parallel with this activity, is a task for the workshop to maintain and
promote a knowledge base for metadata for multimedia information (the
"Observatory") to continually assess relationships between Dublin Core and
other initiatives - in order to assist evolution of standardised metadata
schemes. This knowledge base identifies the key activities currently being
undertaken in Europe and across the world - the scope of these activities
and related work in European projects and programs.

Reported by Leif Andresen (mailto:lea at bs.dk)
Announcement on DC Standards Mailing List
(http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-standards/2000-02/0000.html)

*	DC-Education Working Group Meeting

DC-Education Working Group announces a face-to-face  meeting in Australia,
19-20 February 2000 The DC-Education working group will be holding its
face-to-face meeting in Melbourne, Australia on the weekend of February
19-20, 2000. From this meeting, a draft proposal will emerge for possible
education-related qualifiers for the Dublin core elements and possible
additional elements and qualifiers, if necessary.
Call for participation:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-general/2000-01/0005.html
Meeting Information: http://sunrise.eng.monash.edu.au/dc-ed/

NEWS BRIEFS:

*	Dublin Core Element Set now available in Ukrainian.  A first step of
the DC Implementation task force of the Ukrainian Library Association, this
site posts comments and explanations about the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative and the Dublin Core Element Set in Ukrainian.
http://lucl.lucl.kiev.ua/win/metadata.html

WORKING GROUP UPDATES:

*	DC-Multiple Languages becomes an Interest Group.
http://purl.org/dc/groups/languages.htm

ADVISORY COMMITTEE UPDATES:

*	Jose Borbinha, National Library of Portugal, becomes the newest
member of the Advisory Committee.
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-international/2000-01/0001.html

PROJECT AND TOOL UPDATES:

*	New Project: http://lucl.lucl.kiev.ua/win/metadata.html
Ukrainian Library Association Metadata Project - Under the auspices of the
Ukrainian Library Association, a task force has been formed. The members of
this task force include G. Jaia Barrett, Deputy Executive Director,
Association of Research Libraries, Svetlana Sanzhak, Automation Director,
Lesia Ukrainka Public Library of Kyiv, Igor Torlin, Automation Director,
State Library of the Ukraine for Children and Hanna Voskrensenska, Head,
Foreign Publications Department, National Parliamentary Libary of the
Ukraine. They have already posted a copy of the Dublin Core Element Set in
Ukrainian and hope to provide a template at this site, in the near future,
to help web resources' creators to compile DC metadata and to collect
metadata of Ukrainian web resources.

*	New Project: http://www.tki.org.nz/
Te Kete Ipurangi - the Online Learning Centre - This national site, an
initiative of New Zealand's Ministry of Education, is being developed and
managed by The Learning Centre Trust to support the growing online education
community in New Zealand.  The current online version is phase 1 of a two
phase project.  The second phase will see the site re-launch early in 2000
as a bilingual education portal site which will provide visitors with both
quality-assured content and links to evaluated online education resources.
The site will continue to be developed and expanded by the Trust over the
next two years and the site invites contributions from the New Zealand and
global education communities.

The Trust is currently in the process of developing a National Education
Standard which will define a Dublin Core education set and an education
metadata set for TKI. The Trust hopes that this will be developed in
collaboration with the Department of Education, Victoria, Australia so that
an Australasian set can be explored. The Trust plans to make available to
authors of other New Zealand education sites, tools which will assist them
to apply the agreed Education Standards to the content they produce.

For more information about this project, contact the Project Director, Jill
Wilson at  jill at tki.org.nz

*	New Project: http://ross.lis.ntu.edu.tw
Resources Organization and Searching Specification (ROSS) - Under the Taiwan
Digital Museum Project (sponsored by the National Science Council
http://mars.scie.ntu.edu.tw/~dlm/ ), we are developing metadata for various
kinds of objects (historical records, cultural objects, paintings, maps,
photos, butterfly, etc.), and we adopted Dublin Core as our "core elements."


*	Project Summary - submitted by Gertrud Berger
(Gertrud.Berger at lub.lu.se )
The European Link Treasury (project ends 2000-02-01)
http://lucl.lucl.kiev.ua/win/metadata.html

ELT is a framework for building multi-lingual search services cooperating in
a network and providing useful resource discovery for quality assessed
Internet sources. The project is producing a tool kit and methodologies for
building databases containing metadata for quality assessed resources. The
tools are meant to fulfill the needs of providers of search services in the
European school sector. A prototype service is provided as a proof of
concept. The resources are described using metadata.  The descriptions will
be produced by editorial staff (mainly teachers) in Europe.

WEB SITE CHANGES:

Created a monthly newsletter, DCMI Update.
Restructured the Project pages to better reflect the international scope of
the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

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