DUBLIN CORE METADATA NEWS
This brief article concerns the adoption of the Dublin Core Metadata Set by international standards-setting bodies. It of concern to anyone involved in information management and text markup.
The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001 [pdf]) approved
National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently approved and published this standard set of fifteen metadata elements for resource description. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) (discussed in the September 11, 1998 _Scout Report_) brings together librarians, digital library researchers, content providers, and text-markup experts who seek to increase the visibility of resources by establishing a common, low-cost framework for description. The official approval by ANSI/ NISO of this DC element set is a major step forward in more widespread adoption. Through a series of ongoing workshops, DCMI developed and refined these elements into an easily applied standard meant to coexist with other metadata standards. The next of these workshops is in Tokyo, October 22-26, 2001. Ninth in the series, this workshop, sponsored by Japan's National Institute of Informatics, will examine the emerging Semantic Web and the broader metadata community.
Related links:
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001
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Adapted from The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2001.