Community & Events

The early years of Dublin Core, from 1995 through 2000, were characterized by small, intense face-to-face workshops in seven countries, with improvised processes for seeking rough consensus.

Since then, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative has evolved into an independent non-profit corporation. Standardization and technical work is now carried out in a work structure governed by policies and approval processes. DCMI's metadata vocabularies are maintained by a standing Usage Board. Starting in 2001, the early workshops were transformed into an international conference series, attracting experts from the private and public sectors, from librarians to researchers and knowledge managers.

You can learn more about metadata and DCMI by exploring the pages listed in the menu bar above: the Home page, Metadata Basics, Specifications, Community and Events (this page), and About Us.

Communities & Task Groups

DCMI Communities bring together people working in a domain with interests related to Dublin Core metadata, the use of Dublin Core specifications, and in metadata best practices in the domain. At a minimum, DCMI community members engage in metadata ecology watch by communicating about upcoming events (conferences, workshops and seminars), new metadata initiatives, new metadata tools and best practices as they emerge in the domain of interest. In addition, DCMI Communities may define targeted work with an agenda carried out by Community Task Groups. DCMI Communities are coordinated by one or two moderators. Each Community has a Web page on the DCMI Web site and a mailing list for discussion and exchange of information. Participation in a DCMI Community is open for anybody who subscribes to the open mailing list.

DCMI Task Groups are established around a specific set of activities leading to a set of deliverables. Task Groups are led by one or two Task Group leaders and consist of a group of people who commit to help perform the defined tasks. Task Groups may have a Web page, a Wiki and a mailing list. Anybody can ask for participation in a Task Group; the Task Group leaders are responsible for assigning tasks to the members. While a few Task Groups serve specific cross-domain, Initiative-wide interests of DCMI by supporting specific outcomes of the DCMI work themes, most Task Groups work as extensions of specific DCMI Communities.

To learn more about the activities of DCMI Communities and Task Groups and to participate, please see the lists of DCMI mailing lists and Wikis

Architecture Forum

The DCMI Architecture Forum provides a platform for discussing and developing a model, strategy and roadmap for the practical deployment of Dublin Core metadata using mainstream Web technologies such as XML, RDF, and HTML/XHTML.

Usage Board

The DCMI Usage Board is an appointed committee chartered to ensure the orderly evolution of the metadata terms maintained by DCMI and to review documents such as application profiles for conformance with term semantics and architectural principles.

DCMI Conferences

Since 2001, the Dublin Core Workshop Series has been called "The International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications". Conferences include a Tutorial track, a peer-reviewed Conference track, Special Sessions and Working Group meetings attended by hundreds of experts in the field from many countries around the world. Conference proceedings are published in DCMI Conference Papers. The venue for the annual conference is rotated among the Americas, Europe, and Austral-Asia to promote world-wide participation.

NISO/DCMI Joint Webinar Series

In addition to the tutorials available through the DCMI International Conference, DCMI and NISO present an ongoing series of webinars. The 2012 NISO/DCMI Webinar Package is available.

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