Archive for February 16th, 2005

Joint DCMI/ODRL Profile Working Group established

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) together with the Open Digital Rights Initiative (ODRL) have announced the formation of a joint Working Group to develop a profile of ODRL/DCMI metadata usage. The profile will show how to make combined use of the rights-related DCMI metadata terms and the ODRL rights expression language. The joint Working Group Chairs are Andy Powell (UKOLN, University of Bath) and Renato Iannella (ODRL Initiative).

Call for speakers and workshop facilitators at IWMW 2005

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

This year”s Institutional Web Management Workshop will be held at the University of Manchester on 6-8 July. The theme this year is Whose Web Is It Anyway? We invite proposals for plenary talks and workshop sessions on this theme or on other areas related to the provision of institutional Web services.

DCMI Abstract Model becomes proposed recommendation

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

The DCMI Abstract Model, jointly authored by Andy Powell and Pete Johnston of UKOLN with Mikael Nilsson and Ambjörn Naeve of the KMR Group, CID, NADA, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) in Sweden, has become a DCMI proposed recommendation.

Tap into Bath – competition

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

There is still time to enter the Tap into Bath quiz and win tickets to some of Bath”s museums; entry deadline is 28th February. Tap into Bath is a new online resource that will allow members of the public, school pupils and researchers to find information on the hundreds of collections housed in 30 of the city”s heritage, academic, commercial and professional organisations – from the Roman Baths Museum to the Bath Chronicle. The Tap into Bath Project has been co-ordinated jointly by the University of Bath Library & Learning Centre and UKOLN.