DCMI News 2012

2012-05-07, The DCMI Usage Board has approved a revision of the usage note for the element Subject. This maintenance release has been undertaken in preparation for the routine five-year review of ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2007 ("The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set").

2012-05-07, Presentations from the successful DCMI-UK regional meeting "Five Years On" at the British Library on 26-27 April 2012 are available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/BibData/fyo. Additional resources from the Seminar and the collocated meetings of the DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group and the Vocabulary Management Community will be added to the website over the next several weeks.

2012-04-02, The organizers of the DCMI-UK regional meeting at the British Library on 26-27 April 2012 are pleased to announce the preliminary list of speakers for the meeting including Barbara Tillett (Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (JSC)), Robina Claphan (Europeana), Mirna Willer (IFLA ISBD Review Group), Pat Riva (IFLA FRBR Review Group), Thomas Baker (DCMI), Gordon Dunsire (IFLA Namespaces Technical Group and DCMI), Diane Hillmann (DCMI and Metadata Management Associates) and Owen Stephens (JISC). The regional meeting is co-endorsed by DCMI and DCMI-Member JISC. Registration for the meeting is now open at the meeting website.

2012-04-02, The Call for Papers and other contributions for DC-2012, to be hosted by MIMOS, 3-7 September in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, is now closed. Authors of submitted papers, project reports, posters, special sessions and DCMI Community workshop sessions will receive notification in late May. The preliminary program will be published in the first half of June.

2012-04-02, DCMI is pleased to announce the creation of a Cultural Heritage Metadata Task Group to identify the challenges of metadata for cultural heritage and to provide a simple cross-community metadata model for Cultural Heritage Objects and give a recommendation for the development of DCMI Application Profiles. The Task Group is led by Advisory Board members Stefanie RŸhle (SUB Gšttingen) and Emad Khazraee (Drexel University).

2012-03-14, The Organizing Committee for DC-2012 is happy to announce that the deadline for submissions for DC-2012, to be held 3-7 September 2012 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, has been extended to 30 March 2012. We are looking forward to your contributions!

2012-03-14, A NISO/DCMI Webinar with Dan Brickley will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time (17:00 UTC) on 25 April 2012. Registration for this webinar closes 25 April 2012 at 12:00PM Eastern (16:00 UTC). Dan Brickley will explore how the publication methods of Schema.org relate to the methods used to publish Linked Data. Must data providers commit to one or the other, or can the two approaches exist side-by-side, even reinforcing each other? A full description of the webinar can be found at http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/linked_data/.

2012-02-08, DCMI is very pleased to announce that the Research Center for Knowledge Communities (RCKC), University of Tsukuba has joined DCMI as a Gold Partner with membership through 31 January 2013. Please see the Partner page for more details. The DCMI Partnership Program is open for all companies and organizations that want to support DCMI financially to continue its work to the benefit of the global metadata audience.

2012-02-08, The Ibero-American DCMI community has created Cafeteria DCMI on Facebook for sharing and metadata discussions in Spanish and Portuguese. Espaço de partilha e discussão da comunidade Ibero-Americana de metadados / Espacio de intercambio y discusión de la comunidad Iberoamericana de metadatos. Join the conversation!

2012-01-30, The DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group will be holding its inaugural Meeting in London on 26 April 2012 in conjunction with the DCMI Vocabulary Management Community. The meetings will be followed on 27 April by a seminar examining the impact of the London Meeting of 2007, which brought DCMI and the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) together to build the RDA Vocabularies. The DCMI meetings on the 26th will be free and open to all. The full announcement of the meetings is available and the agenda for the meeting of this community will be developed on the wiki and the Task Group discussion list over the coming months.

2012-01-30, DCMI is very pleased to announce that the Information School of the University of Washington has joined DCMI as a Gold Partner with membership through 31 December 2012. Please see the Partner page for more details. The DCMI Partnership Program is open for all companies and organizations that want to support DCMI financially to continue its work to the benefit of the global metadata audience.

2012-01-02, A NISO/DCMI Webinar, http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/library_data/ will be held online at 13:00 Eastern Time on 22 February 2012. Library cataloging practice continues to have elements of the era of printed catalogs and alphabetized cards, and needs to modernize to take advantage of new information technologies. Karen Coyle will present her "five stars of library data," an analysis of the changes needed and some steps that libraries can begin to take immediately. She will also discuss the "open world" view of the linked data movement and how this view can increase the visibility of libraries in the global information space. Registration closes on 22 February 2012 at 12:00 Eastern Time.