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Metadata for Networked Resources Copyright 1998 - All Rights Reserved Who are you? 150 participants, 20 countries Representatives of libraries, museums, digital library researchers, archives, software developers and vendors, publishers, policy makers, government information services…. DCMI:Who are ‘we’? You are ‘we’ DCMI is an open consensus building initiative International scope 2 major ‘products’ and supporting documents (so far) A process (honored too much in the breech…) A community A culture A forum DCMIHow did we start? 1994 conversation at WWW-2 DC-1: 52 multidisciplinary practitioners How do we improve resource description on the Web? Interdisciplinary, international consensus about a simple standard for resource discovery Dublin Core Workshop Series Chicago WWW Conference Oct, 1994 OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Mar, 1995 OCLC/UKOLN Warwick Workshop, UK Apr, 1996 CNI/OCLC Image Metadata Workshop Sep, 1996 DC-4, Canberra, Australia Mar, 1997 DC-5, Helsinki, Finland Oct, 1997 DC-6, Washington, DC, USA Nov, 1998 DC-7, Frankfurt, Germany Oct, 1999 DC-8, Ottawa, Canada Oct, 2000 The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Why are we here? To focus a shared vision To spread the faith To transfer expertise, experience, insight To identify problems To propose solutions To organize the 2001 work plan Adoption by Major Communities Australia, Denmark, Finland: public information discovery Cultural heritage institutions Libraries Educational resources Print and Preprint archives NASA/JPL image archives Software repositories eBooks Financial and Insurance industries Aerospace and Automotive applications GIS applications Health Commerce: information syndication (RSS) DCMIYear 2000 Milestones DC-Qualifiers Standardization efforts Dublin Core as a grammar for metadata DC-Education: Community-specific metadata Proposal for auxiliary elements, qualifiers DC-Registry Application Profiles DCMI Qualifiers DC Qualifiers approved and issu