Dublin core is a meta data pattern to the description of documents and other objects in the Internet. Author of this pattern is "„Dublin core Metadata initiative "“(DCMI).

Dublin core Metadata initiative (DCMI)

The DCMI was created 1994 at the edge of a World Wide Web conference in Chicago. Some at questions of the description of information and - development interested decided there to organize a conference to these topics. This conference, which took place in March 1995 in Dublin/Ohio, was called to the organizing organizations, that on-line computers LIBRARY center and that national centers for Supercomputing Applications, OCLC/CNCSA Metadata Workshop. In the context of this conference those agreed about 50 participants on a fundamental set of describing terms for the categorization of Web resources and called this meta data quantity after the meeting place Dublin core metadata.

Authors of Web resources should be put by this meta data pattern into the position to describe their resources in such a way that they can be found for instance by keyword-based search machines. There the pattern fast the attention of libraries, museums etc. on itself drew, developed on this initiative an international convention over a core quantity of meta data.

Today (September 2005) the DCMI has a set of specialized working groups ("„Working groups "“). The cooperation in these working groups is voluntarily and free of charge, involved is above all coworkers of the organizations, which in the advancement and spreading of meta data standards have an interest. The work of these groups is trained by a small group, the you acct advice. A kind supervisory board stands for the you acct advice to the side (board OF Trustees). Besides there is the Advisory as advisory committees board, which essentially consists of the directors/conductors of the working groups and of external experts, and which Usage board, whose task is the development of an adequate terminology for the meta data categories.

The current tasks of the DCMI are the advancement and care of the meta data pattern, the development of tools and infrastructures, those the administration and care of meta data facilitate and the spreading of knowledge and knowledge of meta data by training courses etc.

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