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=3E=3E=3E NINCH-ANNOUNCE =3Cdavid=40ninch.org=3E 07/11/00 12:18PM =3E=3E=3E
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
July 11, 2000
Announcement of =22Dublin Core Qualifiers=22
http://purl.org/dc/documents/dcmes-qualifiers
Reminder: 8th Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop
October 4-6, 2000: National Library of Canada, Ottawa
http://www.ifla.org/udt/dc8/call.htm
=3EContacts:
=3ESally Khudairi
=3ERoderic Olvera Young
=3EZOT Group
=3E+1.617.542.5335
=3Edcmi=40zotgroup.com
=3E
=3EDUBLIN CORE RELEASES RECOMMENDED QUALIFIERS
=3EBuilding the De Facto Metadata Standard and Improving Access to the =
World's
Information
=3E
=3Ehttp://purl.org/dc/ - 11 July 2000 -
=3E
=3EThe Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), an organization
=3Eleading the development of international standards to improve
=3Eelectronic resource management and information discovery,
=3Etoday announced the formal recommendation of the Dublin Core
=3E(DC) Qualifiers. The addition of the DC Qualifiers enhances
=3Ethe semantic precision of the existing DC Metadata Element Set.
=3E
=3E=22Think of Legos. The close tolerances of these simple toys
=3Eensure all the different Lego themes, built at different times,
=3Ecan work together smoothly. Dublin Core is the basic Lego block
=3Efor promoting discovery of resources on the Web: a simple and
=3Einteroperable foundation upon which many information solutions
=3Ecan be built. The introduction of Dublin Core Qualifiers is like
=3Eadding color and themes to the Legos - it helps enrich the
=3Edescription of information resources on the Internet=22
=3Esaid Stuart Weibel, DCMI Director.
=3E
=3EThe DC Qualifiers build upon the DC Metadata Element Set,
=3Ewhich provides 15 categories to describe resources on the Web
=3E- a catalog card with new dimensions. Known as the Dublin Core,
=3Ethe metadata model has become the de facto standard for
=3Edescription of information on the Internet.
=3E
=3EFor the past year, working groups of the Dublin Core developed
=3Ethese newly agreed upon refinements to the catalog card to give
=3Ebetter access to information we seek. In essence, the new
=3Erecommendations for Dublin Core Qualifiers increase the effectiveness of
metadata by giving it finer granularity. For example, a publication's date,
which would be the Dublin Core Metadata Element, may be further detailed as =
a
particular type of date by using a Dublin Core Qualifier such as date last
modified, date
=3Ecreated, or date issued.
=3E
=3EDublin Core's Usage Committee today launches the next step
=3Etoward a cohesive metadata standard. The DC Qualifiers improve
=3Einterpretation of metadata values and can be easily recorded
=3Eor transferred into HTML, XML, RDF or relational databases.
=3EThe evolution of DC Qualifiers draws from the input of many
=3Eindividuals across a broad array of disciplines.
=3E
=3EUsers include museum informatics specialists, archivists, digital
=3Elibrary researchers, libraries, and government information providers
=3Eand a variety of content providers. Their efforts have led standards
=3Eorganizations, such as NISO (National Information Standards Organization)=
in
the U.S. and CEN in Europe (European Committee for Standardization) to view =
the
DC Metadata Element Set as a benchmark candidate for simple resource =
description
on the Internet. More recently, new sectors, such as education and industry,
have been attracted to Dublin Core's simplicity, multilingual scope, =
consensus
philosophy and widespread adoption.
=3E
=3EMore information about the new recommendation can be found at:
=3Ehttp://purl.org/dc/documents/dcmes-qualifiers
=3E
=3EThe metadata for this press release can viewed at:
=3Ehttp://purl.org/dc/pressreleases/qualifiers20000711.htm.rdf
=3E
=3EPraise for DC Qualifiers from Key Leaders in Metadata:
=3E
=3E=22The ratification of Dublin Core Qualifiers is an important milestone
=3Ethat will improve the usefulness of Dublin Core metadata for libraries =
and the
greater Internet community. OCLC is pleased to host the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative as part of its continuing commitment to global open standards =
which
facilitate international knowledge access. We expect the Dublin Core to play=
an
important role in bridging traditional library cataloging and Internet =
resource
description.=22
=3E-- Jay Jordan, CEO, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
=3E
=3E=22I'm delighted to see this important next step on the Dublin Core
=3EMetadata Initiative's program, which begins to map the path between the
lowest-common-denominator unqualified elements and the need for greater
precision in many actual applications. This is a relatively short document, =
but
it distills an enormous amount of thinking, discussion and hard work by a
worldwide community concerned with metadata, and the consensus it captures
represents a substantial accomplishment.=22
=3E-- Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked =
Information.
=3E
=3E=22The Dublin Core qualifiers establish an important precedent for the
=3E=22best-practice=22 use of the Dublin Core Element Set. The W3C work on =
the
Resource Description Framework (RDF) anticipated from its very beginning the
need within the Dublin Core framework to use qualifiers to represent =
encoding
schemes as well as vocabulary refinement. The adoption of this set of =
qualifiers
leads the way for more widespread use of the Dublin Core to describe =
materials
on the Web in greater detail.=22
=3E-- Ralph R. Swick, Technical Director, Technology and Society Domain, =
World
Wide Web Consortium.
=3E
=3E=22Most Dublin Core implementation projects have always used element =
qualifiers.
To current and future Dublin Core users, agreement on core Qualifiers is a
hallmark event which can only be compared with completion of the 15 basic =
Dublin
Core Metadata Elements. Now, with both Elements and their Qualifiers in =
place,
Dublin Core is a much more powerful and versatile tool.=22
=3E-- Juha Hakala, Development Director, Helsinki University Library.
=3E
=3E=22Implementers of Internet search engines are certain to welcome the
=3Emost recent development of the Dublin Core standard. In Australia,
=3EDublin Core is being used to support access to information resources by
governments, the museum and library communities, and a number of projects =
within
academia. The approval of standard qualifiers will be welcomed by these
communities and ensure improved interoperability in the discovery of =
Internet
resources.=22
=3E-- Dr. Warwick Cathro, Assistant Director-General of the
=3ENational Library of Australia.
=3E
=3E=22Melbourne IT's clients register domain names to move their businesses =
and
other activities online. Their goal of realizing the potential of the Web =
can be
fulfilled by Dublin Core. It delivers relevance to the information end-users
seek. Today, we are well placed to implement the new Dublin Core standards =
in
our own developments and to advise our clients as to how they can benefit =
from
using them.=22
=3E-- Peter Gerrand, CEO of Melbourne IT.
=3E
=3E=22With the general adoption and the publication of the Dublin Core
=3EQualifiers, Dublin Core establishes itself as a reliable international
=3Emetadata standard. I am pleased that this consolidation process, with
=3Eits great importance for libraries, museums, archives and many other
=3Ecommunities, was set in motion during the 7th Dublin Core Workshop in
Frankfurt.=22
=3E-- Dr. Elisabeth Niggeman, Director, Die Deutsche Bibliothek.
=3E
=3EABOUT THE DUBLIN CORE METADATA INITIATIVE =5BDCMI=5D
=3E
=3EThe Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged since1995 in=
the
development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad
range of purposes and business models. Its primary offering, the Dublin Core
Metadata Element Set, is the de-facto worldwide standard for the description=
of
information
=3Eresources across disciplines and languages. DCMI's activities
=3Einclude consensus-driven working groups, global workshops, conferences,
standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance =
of
metadata standards and practices. Representatives from industries worldwide =
are
active contributors to the DCMI=3B participation is open to practitioners =
and
theoreticians from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Further
information on DCMI, the Dublin Core family of specifications and various =
online
metadata solutions can be found at http://purl.org/dc/
=3E
=3EThe 8th Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop, hosted by the
=3ENational Library of Canada and the International Federation of
=3ELibrary Associations and sponsored by OCLC, the Coalition for
=3ENetworked Information, and the National Science Foundation, will
=3Ebe held the 4th through the 6th of October and will help shape
=3Ethe future of metadata, implementation and evolution of the standard.
=3ETo register, please visit http://www.ifla.org/udt/dc8/call.htm
=3E
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