Dublin Core
Leif Andresen,
Catalogablog,
Feb 12, 2003
Whew. You've just finished tagging your thousands of items in Dublin Core. Now you can relax, right? Wrong. There is a great deal afoot with Dublin Core. I confess, I'm not clear on all of it (and information on the web is basically impossible to obtain). The the long and the short of it is that Dublin Core is being "fast-tracked" to become a new ISO standard, "15836 The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set." That wouldn't be so back (except, of course, for the fact that you could now have to pay money to view the standard). But between Dublin Core 1.1 and the eventual ISO 15836 there are numerous changes. This link is to an email sent from Leif Andresen, chair of the DCMI Standards Interest Group. The ISO page on the initiative is here but the actual text is nowhere to be seen. The most recent version I can find (and which may be what is approved by ISO) is ANSI/NISO Z39.85, a 2001 version from the NISO website. That version will set you back $US 39. Now - was somebody saying something about open standards? Public domain? Oh yeah...
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