, The Organizing Committee of DC-2007, to be held in Singapore from 27 through 31 August 2007, has published the preliminary program for the conference. Keynotes will be given by Johannes Keizer, team leader for Semantic Standards in the Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome and Zhang Xiaoxing, Deputy Director of the National Cultural Information Resource Center of China. Online registration is now Please note the early bird rates that are valid until the 9th of July 2007. The Call for Sponsors is still

, Incorporating resolutions of comments received in the public comment period in April 2007, a revised version of the DCMI Abstract Model has been approved as a DCMI Recommendation. A related specification “Expressing Dublin Core metadata using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)” supersedes a 2002 Proposed Recommendation on “Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in RDF / XML”. The new RDF specification remains a DCMI Proposed Recommendation pending the resolution of issues raised during the public comment period.

, A new DCMI Task Group is being set up for collaborative work on Resource Description and Access (RDA), a library standard being developed for resource description and access in the digital world, building on foundations established by the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). The Task Group, led by Diane Hillmann of Cornell University and Gordon Dunsire of Strathclyde University, is being set up in response to recommendations of a meeting hosted by the British Library on 30 April and 1 May 2007 between people involved in DCMI, the Semantic Web community and developers of RDA. The charter of the Task Group is to define components of RDA as an RDF vocabulary for use in developing a Dublin Core application profile. The work will be done through a mailing list DC-RDA and a Wiki. For more information, please contact Diane Hillmann.

, As the result of a five-year review, an updated version of the “The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set” has been published as ANSI/NISO Standard Z.

, Based on work done by Barbara Gorson and subsequent review by a committee of the DCMI Advisory Board, a general presentation of the benefits of using Dublin Core metadata has been produced under the title “Making Information Work: the Dublin Core Way”.