Library Cataloging
Besides initiating processes for the review and approval of new Dublin Core elements and qualifiers, the DCMI Usage Board has revamped the way Dublin Core Metadata Initiative documents its work. The documents currently include:
- Updates To Dcmi Terms And Rdf Schemas
The DCMI Usage Board has completed an editorial revision of terms in the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, bringing definitions and usage comments into line with the DCMI Abstract Model. Documentation is available in revised Web pages, RDF schemas, and...
- Dublin Core
The Dublin Core tool DC-assist has been updated. It now:provides examples using XHTML rather than HTMLuses the recommended XHTML syntaxincludes details and examples for all the metadata terms currently in DCMI maintained namespacesDC-assist is a small,...
- Dublin Core
The Usage Board is pleased to announce the approval of two new terms with the status of "conforming":License - "A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."Rights Holder - "A person or organization owning or managing...
- Dublin Core
This news from DCMI should make some folks happy. "The DCMI Usage Board is pleased to announce the to the addition of two new terms, "Moving Image" and "Still Image", to the DCMI Type Vocabulary. The new terms are documented on the Web page "DCMI Metadata...
- Dublin Core
This just in from the DC folks: On behalf of the Managing Director, I would like to announce the availability for review and public comment of proposals from three DCMI working groups to the DCMI Usage Board. Under the Usage Board Administrative...
Library Cataloging
Dublin Core
Besides initiating processes for the review and approval of new Dublin Core elements and qualifiers, the DCMI Usage Board has revamped the way Dublin Core Metadata Initiative documents its work. The documents currently include:
- Up-to-the-minute listings of all current Elements, Element Refinements, Encoding Schemes, and DCMI Type Vocabulary terms. These will supersede Web documents currently in use as authoritative sources of up-to-date information on DCMI metadata terms.
- For the historically- or archivally-minded, a complete listing of all Elements, Element Refinements, and Encoding Schemes -- including past versions of terms that have been corrected or revised. Each term has a cross-reference to a related Decision, and each such Decision points to supporting documentation in the archive. This master file is used as the source for periodically generating the updated listings.
- DCMI Usage Board Decisions, each of which is numbered for unambiguous identification.
- DCMI Usage Board Review of Application Profiles -- principles and criteria by which the Board will review profiles which use or extend Dublin Core in various ways.
At its latest meeting, held on 12-13 May 2002 in Bath with financial support from JISC, the Usage Board revised and simplified its model for conferring status on terms, making it easier for working groups to put new terms of proven usefulness into the DCMI-maintained namespaces.
The Usage Board now distinguishes the following:
- "Recommended" Elements, Element Refinements, and DCMI Type Vocabulary terms useful for resource discovery across domains.
- "Conforming" Elements and Element Refinements -- terms for which an implementation community has a demonstrated need and which conform to the grammar of Elements and Element Refinements, though without necessarily meeting the stricter criteria of usefulness across domains or usefulness for resource discovery.
- "Registered" Encoding Schemes -- terms which identify parsing rules or controlled vocabularies useful for interpreting particular metadata values. All encoding schemes, new and legacy, have the status of Registered.
- Updates To Dcmi Terms And Rdf Schemas
The DCMI Usage Board has completed an editorial revision of terms in the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, bringing definitions and usage comments into line with the DCMI Abstract Model. Documentation is available in revised Web pages, RDF schemas, and...
- Dublin Core
The Dublin Core tool DC-assist has been updated. It now:provides examples using XHTML rather than HTMLuses the recommended XHTML syntaxincludes details and examples for all the metadata terms currently in DCMI maintained namespacesDC-assist is a small,...
- Dublin Core
The Usage Board is pleased to announce the approval of two new terms with the status of "conforming":License - "A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."Rights Holder - "A person or organization owning or managing...
- Dublin Core
This news from DCMI should make some folks happy. "The DCMI Usage Board is pleased to announce the to the addition of two new terms, "Moving Image" and "Still Image", to the DCMI Type Vocabulary. The new terms are documented on the Web page "DCMI Metadata...
- Dublin Core
This just in from the DC folks: On behalf of the Managing Director, I would like to announce the availability for review and public comment of proposals from three DCMI working groups to the DCMI Usage Board. Under the Usage Board Administrative...