Report from the trenches – the 8th International Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop

Abstract

Recounts the 8th International Dublin Core Metadata Workshop held in Ottawa, Canada, October 4‐6, 2000. It provides overviews of the working group process, and developments within the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). NISO standardization, Dublin Core qualifiers, application profiles, administrative metadata, agent qualifiers, DC‐Education, DC‐Registries, DC‐Citation progress, and Extensible Open RDF Toolkit were main discussion topics of this workshop. This article also describes future goals of the DCMI, including additional qualifiers, multi‐lingual issues, and documentation policies.

Citation

Medeiros, N. (2001), "Report from the trenches – the 8th International Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop", OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 15-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650750110383622