Dublin Core Metadata Initiative http://dublincore.org/ Making it easier to find information. en-us 2006 <![CDATA[DC-2007 Guest of Honour confirmed, program updated]]> http://dublincore.org/news/2007/#dcmi-news- DC-2007, to be held 27-31 August 2007 in Singapore, is pleased to announce that the Guest of Honour at the conferenceng will be Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore's Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports and Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts. The conference program has been updated and now contains the titles and presenters of the Conference Papers, as well as more information on the workshop and special sessions. Please note that the early bird registration closes on 9 July. Full rates apply from 10 July. The Call for Sponsors is still]]> <![CDATA[Public Comment on revisions to DCMI terms and assignment of domains and ranges]]> http://dublincore.org/news/2007/#dcmi-news- existing DCMI terms and on a proposed set of classes for use as domains and ranges of DCMI properties. Domains and ranges reinforce the natural-language definition of a property with explicit statements that support inferences about the type of resource being described. Interested members of the public are invited to post comments to the DC-ARCHITECT URE mailing list, including "[Public Comment]" in the subject line. After Public Comment, the proposal will be submitted to the DCMI Usage Board for finalization.]]> <![CDATA[Revised DCMI Namespace Policy published]]> http://dublincore.org/news/2007/#dcmi-news- revised DCMI Namespace Policy has been published. The revision documents the creation of a new namespace for entities of the DCMI Abstract Model and updates the terminology used.]]>
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Articles catalogue
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The authors wish to thank Tom Baker, Dan Brickley, Tim Cole, Makx Dekkers, Carl Lagoze, Sigfrid Lundberg, Eric Miller, Tod Matola, Judith Plümer, Hartmut Polzer, Harry Wagner and Stu Weibel for helpful and stimulating contributions. Particular thanks to Aaron Swartz for his suggestions and contributions to the DumbDown algorithm and bug reports and to the contributors of the Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) , which provided the necessary namespace normalization. Thanks to the DC Architecture Working Group for its patience. Most of the techniques proposed here have their basis in [DM],[RDFMS] and [RDFS]. The scheme proposals are essentially due to Eric Miller. Thanks to Dave Beckett for his constructive suggestions for the final version.