Meeting and Presentation Announcements

, The Program Committee for DC-2007, to be held in Singapore from 27 through 31 August 2007, has issued the Call for Papers for the conference. Please note that the deadline for submission of papers is 2 April 2007.

, The Program Committee for DC-2007, to be held in Singapore from 27 through 31 August 2007, will be chaired by Abdus Sattar Chaudry of Nanyang Technological University and Stuart Sutton of the University of Washington.

, The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that DC-2007 will be held in Singapore in the week of 27-31 August 2007, hosted by the National Library Board in cooperation with the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information of Nanyang Technological University. An initial conference Web site has been installed with a number of relevant links. Publication of the Call for Papers is expected in December 2006.

, This year's conference, DC-2006, was held 3-6 October 2006 in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, and hosted by the University of Colima, with 250 participants from 24 countries. Key topics were model-based interoperability, controlled vocabularies, and practical deployment issues. Presentations are available for download from the conference program.

, On Tuesday 3 October 2006, DC-2006, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications willin the Kármina Palace Hotel in Manzanillo, Mexico. Please visit the conference Web site for the latest information. Online registration isuntil 2 October 2006. On-site registration during the event is possible but only with payment in cash (Mexican pesos and US dollars) and travellers cheques (US dollars only). We are looking forward to meeting you next week in Mexico!

, A further update of the program for DC-2006 has been published with the names of the chairs of all paper sessions. Credit card payment has been installed on the registration page.

, Around the DC-2006 conference, a number of DCMI committees will have meetings. On 30 September and 1 October 2006, a meeting takes place of the DCMI Usage Board. The day before the conference, 2 October 2006, a meeting is scheduled of the DCMI Advisory Board, while the day after the conference, 7 October 2006, the DCMI Board of Trustees will meet. All meetings will take place in the conference hotel in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.

, The program for DC-2006 has been upgraded to include details of the paper sessions with paper titles and authors. Registration details are available at the registration page. A call for sponsors has also been published on the conference Web site.

, The preliminary program for DC-2006, to be held in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico on 3-7 October 2006, is now available from the conference Web site. The conference features two keynotes, one on 3 October by Abel Packer of BIREME in Brazil and one on 6 October by Michael Crandall of the Information School at the University of Washington. In three plenary and four parallel paper sessions, 21 long and 7 short papers will be presented, while an additional seven papers will be read in a special session for reports on Portuguese and Spanish language projects. Furthermore, in the workshop track 13 working group sessions and eight special sessions are on the program. One each of the four conference days, a set of tutorials will introduce basic as well as more advanced concepts related to the implementation of Dublin Core metadata in practice.

, The Call for Papers for DC-2006 is now closed. The Program Committee will review the papers received and communicate acceptance to the authors in June. The Call for Exhibitors remains DC-2006 will be held in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, 3 to 6 October 2006. Please see the conference Web site, http://dc2006.ucol.mx/ for further details.

, The DCMI Usage Board met on 29 and 30 April 2006 at the Information School of University of Washington in Seattle. The agenda included follow-up to the public comment period on DCMI Type Vocabulary and the editorial alignment of term descriptions with the DCMI Abstract Model.

, the DCMI Tools Working Group will meet in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. The meeting will be held in conjunction with “Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories Workshop” at JCDL 2006 (http://www.jcdl2006.org), in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA on 15 June 2006. Ancall for workshop participation and additional workshop information are posted at: http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/jcdl_2006_tools_workshop.html.

, The Call for Papers for DC-2006, to be hosted by the University of Colima in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico on 3-6 October 2006, has been extended to 30 April 2006. At the same time, the deadline for the Call for Exhibitors has been extended. Exhibitors may apply until shortly before the conference but are invited to do so before 15 July 2006. Please see the conference Web site, http://dc2006.ucol.mx/ for further details.

. The DCMI Usage Board will meet on 29 and 30 April 2006 at the University of Washington in Seattle. The agenda for the meeting includes follow-up to the public comment period on DCMI Type Vocabulary and editorial updates to metadata terms, including the possible assignment of formal domains and ranges.

, Translations have been provided for the Call for Papers for DC-2006 in Spanish and in French. The call is stilluntil 15 April 2006.

, Both the DCMI Board of Trustees and the DCMI Usage Board will meet in Seattle, Washington, USA. The Usage Board meeting is planned for 29 and 30 April 2006, while the Board of Trustees will meet on the first of May, 2006.

, The Organizing Committee of DC-2006, to be hosted by the University of Colima (Mexico) on 3-6 October 2006, hasd the conference Web site, http://dc2006.ucol.mx, with the Call for Papers. The call isuntil 15 April 2006.

, In preparation for DC-2006, to be held 3-6 October 2006 in Manzanillo (Colima) in Mexico, Javier Solorio Lagunas of the University of Colima and Thomas Baker of DCMI have been appointed Program Chairs, while Lourdes Feria Basurto of the University of Colima and Makx Dekkers of DCMI have taken on responsibility as coordinators of the event. The Call for Papers is scheduled for publication in January 2006.

, In the context of the joint work item between DCMI and IEEE/LOM to develop a recommended representation of the metadata elements of the IEEE Learning Object Metadata Standard in the Dublin Core Abstract Model, Mikael Nilsson made a presentation to the IEEE/LOM meeting in Orlando in October 2005 outlining the approach and the current status.

, The organizing committee of DC-2006, to be held 3-6 October 2006 in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, has made available a multimedia presentation with information about the University of Colima and the venue for the conference next year.

, The DCMI Usage Board met in Madrid on 9-10 September 2005. A large batch of editorial changes to existing elements and Type Vocabulary terms — clarifications of wording, updated references, and the like — will be posted on 7 November 2005 for a public comment period prior to final approval. The comment period will also cover revisions to existing recommendations related to “Dublin Core Structured Values”.

, this year's conference and workshop, DC-2005, that was held from 12 through 15 September 2005 in Leganés (Madrid) was attended by 214 attendes from 33 countries. Participants were enthusiastic about the facilities provided by the University of Carlos III and the programme, including four keynotes, five tutorials, fourteen long papers, eighteen short papers, fourteen Working Group meetings and ten special sessions. More information is available on the conference Web site, and the papers are expected to be available soon in the Dublin Core Conference Paper Repository.

, the DCMI Directorate is very pleased to be able to announce that next year's conference and workshop will be hosted by the University of Colima in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico. The event will take place from Tuesday 3 through Friday 6 October 2006.

, The organising committee for DC-2005, to take place 12-15 September 2005 at the University Carlos III of Madrid, Leganés Campus, has published the final program for the conference and workshop. There is also a print version of the program. We are looking forward to see many of you in Madrid!

, The organising committee for DC-2005, to take place 12-15 September 2005 in Leganés (Madrid), has published an updated agenda for the conference and workshop. Go to the registration page to book your place for this event!

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, The DCMI Usage Board will meet in Madrid on 9-10 September 2005, prior to the DC-2005 conference. For more information, please contact the Chair, Tom Baker.

, The preliminary program for DC-2005, to be held in Madrid from 12 through 15 September, is now online. The program includes keynotes by Thomas Baker, Ricardo Baeza, Johannes Keizer and Eric Miller, presentations of 36 papers and project reports, a series of tutorials on metadata basics and numerous working group meetings.

The Call for Papers for DC-2005 is now closed. The Program Committee will review the received papers and communicate acceptance of papers to the authors by 1 June 2005. The Call for Exhibitors is still to 15 July 2005. For any further information about these calls, please contact dc2005.

, The DCMI Usage Board will meet on 19-20 May 2005 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Please contact Tom Baker for further information.

, The Call for Papers for DC-2005, to be hosted by the University Carlos III of Madrid in Leganés (Madrid) on 12-15 September 2005, has been extended to 15 April 2005. At the same time, the deadline for the Call for Exhibitors has been extended. If you want to make a proposal as exhibitor at DC-2005, you can complete the Call for Exhibitors form until shortly before the Conference, but you are invited to do so before 15 July 2005. See the conference Web site, http://dc2005.uc3m.es for further details.

, The Call for Papers and Call for Exhibitors for DC-2005, to be hosted by the University Carlos III of Madrid in Leganés (Madrid) on 12-15 September 2005, are available on the conference Web site, http://dc2005.uc3m.es. Both calls areuntil 1 April 2005.

, The Organizing Committee of DC-2005, to be hosted by the University Carlos III of Madrid in Leganés (Madrid) on 12-15 September 2005, hasd the conference Web site, http://dc2005.uc3m.es with the Call for Papers. The call isuntil 1 April 2005.

, This workshop, to be held in Göttingen, Germany from 28 February through 2 March 2005, is divided into three thematic blocks. The first day (February 28th) will address standards and standardization activities in the field of preservation. The second day (March 1st), standards and standardization activities in the context of Semantic Web and Web Services will be presented. The DC-Tools Working Group will hold a meeting on the last day (March 2nd). Read More...

, The DCMI Directorate is very pleased to announce that DC-2005, next year's International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will take place 12-15 September 2005 at the University Carlos III of Madrid at its Leganés campus just south of Madrid. More news about the conference will be published on the DCMI Web site in January 2005.

, DC-2004, this year's International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, that took place in Shanghai, China from 11 to 14 October was a great success. There were 160 participants from 21 countries, representing a wide range of domains: corporate, governments, libraries, archives, universities, education, computer science and international organisations. The closing presentation is available at http://dublincore.org/resources/presentations/Dekkers_DC-2004_closing.pdf.

, The Usage Board has published a summary of the main decisions taken at its meeting at DC-2004 in Shanghai on 9-10 October 2004. These decisions include the approval of five new terms related to education, accessibility, and collection description; the endorsement of MARC Relator terms as sub-properties of Contributor; and clarification of a method for endorsing non-DCMI-maintained identifiers for use as vocabulary encoding schemes. Note that Usage Board decisions are not considered official until decision documents are finalized and published on the DCMI Web site.

, The full program for DC-2004, to be held 11-14 October 2004 in Shanghai, including two pre-conferences on 10 October 2004, tutorial sessions, keynotes, full papers, short papers, working group sessions and special sessions is now available.
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, Two pre-conferences will take place on 10 October 2004 in Shanghai, China, in conjunction with DC-2004. The first pre-conference "Metadata for Interoperability in the Global Corporate Environment" is organized by the DCMI Global Corporate Circle in co-operation with the CEN/ISSS Worshop on Dublin Core metadata. The second pre-conference "Supporting the Reuse of Digital Educational Resources" is organized by the DCMI Education Working Group in co-operation with the U.S. National Science Digital Library initiative. Registration for these two pre-conferences is nowthrough the conference's online registration facility.

, The organizing committee for DC-2004, to be held 11-14 October 2004 in Shanghai, has published the Preliminary Program of the conference and workshop. The online Registration facility is now Early Bird registration rates are in effect until 31 August 2004.

, Twenty-eight papers have been accepted for presentation at DC-2004, 11-14 October 2004 in Shanghai. The program will feature keynotes by Zhang Xiaolin and Eric Miller and a joint session with the 2004 Shanghai International Library Forum. The full program will appear shortly on the DC-2004 Conference Web site.

, The CEN/ISSS Workshop on Dublin Core Metadata for Multimedia Information - Dublin Core (MMI-DC) of the European Committee for Standardization CEN is organizing a workshop on the subject of standardization and co-operation issues related to interoperability between Government Information Programs in Europe. More information...

, The deadline for submission of papers for DC-2004, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, to be held on 11-14 October 2004 at Shanghai Library, has been extended to Friday 15 May 2004. More information...

, We have the pleasure to announce that keynotes at DC-2004 will be given by Zhang Xiaolin of the Chinese Academy of Science and Eric Miller of the World-wide Web Consortium

, The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative will hold its annual conference on Oct.11-14, 2004 at the Shanghai Library, in Shanghai China. The 2004 conference is sponsored in partnership with the Shanghai Library. Read the press release.

, DCMI and Shanghai Library are pleased to announce that the 2004 Dublin Core Annual Conference will be held from 11 through 14 October 2004 at the Shanghai Library. The conference title and themes, together with the timeline for paper submission and review will be announced before the end of 2003.

, In addition to the Online Proceedings of the DC-2003 conference, the report of the pre-conference on Metadata and Search is now available, with links to the presentations.

, The DCMI Usage Board held its sixth bi-annual meeting on 27-28 September in Seattle. Topics discussed included the finalization of a decision to add "Moving Image" and "Still Image" to the DCMI Type Vocabulary; user-oriented guidance such as "Using Dublin Core", "Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles", and the "AskDCMI" service; the registration and identification of encoding schemes; the use of MARC Relator terms as refinements of dc:contributor; and a draft Abstract Model under discussion on the DC-Architecture list. Related drafts and decision texts will be made available on the Usage Board Web pages.

, DC-2003, the annual Dublin Core event that took place in Seattle from 28 through 2 October 2003, attracted over 300 participants from 20 countries. Abstracts and full text of the papers and posters are available on the Program section of the conference Web site.. Reports of working group meetings will be prepared and are expected to become available on the working group Web pages by early November.

, DC-2003 is rapidly approaching. Please watch the Conference Web site for the latest news. We are looking forward to meeting many of you in Seattle.

, The DCMI Usage Board will hold its next meeting on Saturday and Sunday, 27-28 September 2003, in conjunction with the DC-2003 conference in Seattle, Washington. Please contact Thomas Baker for further details.

The DCMI Citation Working Group has submitted a proposal -- "DCMICite: a Bibliographic Citation Dublin Core Structured Value (DCSV) Encoding Scheme" -- for review by the Usage Board (see the Public Comment page). Public comment isuntil 26 September; comments should be sent to DC-General.

, In conjunction with DC-2003, meetings will be held in Seattle of the DCMI Board of Trustees (27 September 2003) and the DCMI Advisory Board (3 October 2003).

, The Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), and the Information Technology Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) are jointly organizing an IFLA Satellite meeting to be held at the Göttingen State and University Library, Germany from 11th August to the 12th of August 2003.

This meeting, entitled "Information Technology and DCMI" will share new developments in Dublin Core metadata and encourage use theArchives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting to exchange and share metadata collections (repositories).

Further objectives include discussions about important related issues such as long-term preservation and metadata registries, and will include discussion of DCMI's National Affiliate program.

The program includes an international range of talks exploring common approaches and challenges to the topic of DCMI, metadata issues, long-term preservation, OAI and metadata registries. The outcomes of this meeting are expected to inform followup discussions at DC-2003 in Seattle Washington in September.

More information about the Göttingen meeting can be found at http://post-ifla.sub.uni-goettingen.de/. More information about DC-2003 can be found at http://www.ischool.washington.edu/dc2003/

, The DCMI Usage Board held a meeting at Cornell University on 16-17 June 2003 and is currently finalizing a series of decisions and documents, among which:

• a clarification by Andy Powell of issues related to "structured values" (to be moved through DCMI process as an addition to its guiding principles);
• progress on a formal declaration from Library of Congress that MARC Relator terms refine dc:contributor (and can therefore be used as Element Refinements);
• approval of "still image" and "moving image" as sub-types of "image" in the DCMI Type Vocabulary;
• approval of two new encoding schemes needed for the DCMI Libraries application profile.

The full decisions and related materials will be made available as they are finalized.

, The DCMI Board of Trustees mid-year meeting convened in Budapest, Hungary at the end of May to discuss ongoing activities and review organizational plans and activities for the coming months.

Agenda items included the DCMI Directorate leadership transition, status of current working group activities, strategic opportunities, discussion of funding opportunities and financial status of DCMI, and progress on organization of the upcoming DC Conference in Seattle.

The development and prospects of the Affiliate program occupied a significant part of the meeting, coming soon after the establishment of the National Library of Finland as DCMI's first National Affiliate. Discussions continue with additional prospects in this important effort to distribute ownership and support of DCMI more widely. Discussions included the evolving form of governance of DCMI and how this might be distributed more broadly to reflect the interests of stakeholders.

Other agenda issues included strategic liaisons that will be increasingly important as the metadata landscape evolves and the role that DCMI can play in helping consolidate a stable metadata architecture on the Web.

The DCMI Board of Trustees meets twice a year in face-to-face meetings and communicates through teleconferences and email as issues arise. The next meeting will be held in conjunction with DC-2003 in Seattle.

, The National Library of Spain hosts a Seminar on the "Application of the Dublin Core Metadata Model in Spain" on 5 June 2003 in Madrid. The meeting is co-organized by the University Institute of Information Science and Information Management "Agustín Millares" of the Carlos III University in Madrid; SEDIC, the Spanish Society of Information Science and Scientific Information; and the National Library of Spain. The event will be relayed in real time by the UC3M-TV service on: http://audiovisuales.uc3m.es/index2.html. Contact Eva Méndez for further information.

, The next Usage Board meeting will be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on 16-17 May 2003. Interested members of the Dublin Core community should contact the Usage Board chair, Tom Baker for further information.