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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="left"><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Dublin</span></b></place></city><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en"> Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)</span></b><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: fr"><p></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="left"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: fr"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1" align="left"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">About the Initiative<p></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an organization dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and developing specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2" align="left"><city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Mission</span></b></place></city><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en"> and Scope<p></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative provides simple standards to facilitate the finding, sharing and management of information.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">DCMI does this by:<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 44.35pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: symbol; mso-ansi-language: en; mso-bidi-font-family: symbol"><span style="mso-list: ignore">·<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Developing and maintaining international standards for describing resources <p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 44.35pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: symbol; mso-ansi-language: en; mso-bidi-font-family: symbol"><span style="mso-list: ignore">·<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Supporting a worldwide community of users and developers <p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 44.35pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: symbol; mso-ansi-language: en; mso-bidi-font-family: symbol"><span style="mso-list: ignore">·<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Promoting widespread use of Dublin Core solutions <p></p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">The major characteristics of DCMI as an organization are (the three ‘I’s):<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 44.35pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: symbol; mso-ansi-language: en; mso-bidi-font-family: symbol"><span style="mso-list: ignore">·<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Independent</span></i></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">: DCMI is not controlled by specific commercial or other interests and is not biased towards specific domains nor does it mandate specific technical solutions <p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 44.35pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: symbol; mso-ansi-language: en; mso-bidi-font-family: symbol"><span style="mso-list: ignore">·<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">International</span></i></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">: DCMI encourages participation from organizations anywhere in the world, respecting linguistic and cultural differences <p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 44.35pt; direction: ltr; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: symbol; mso-ansi-language: en; mso-bidi-font-family: symbol"><span style="mso-list: ignore">·<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="ltr"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Influenceable</span></i></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">: DCMI is an open organization aiming at building consensus among the participating organizations; there are no prerequisites for participation <p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">The development and maintenance of a core set of metadata terms (the <a href="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><span style="color: blue">DCMI Metadata Terms</span></a>) continues to be one of the main activities of DCMI. In addition, DCMI is developing guidelines and procedures to help implementers define and describe their usage of Dublin Core metadata in the form of Application Profiles. A large part of this work is done in the <a href="http://dublincore.org/groups/"><span style="color: blue">DCMI Working Groups</span></a> that provide discussion and cooperation platforms for specific communities (e.g. education, government information, corporate knowledge management) or specific interests (e.g. technical architecture, accessibility).<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Anyone wishing to participate may do so by simply joining the appropriate mailing list for the working group activity of interest. The <a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-general.html"><span style="color: blue">DC-General</span></a> mailing list is the general forum for community participation and announcements. Feedback can be submitted through the <a href="http://dublincore.org/about/contact/"><span style="color: blue">feedback page</span></a>.<p></p></span></p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en"><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="left"><hr align="center" width="100%" color="#cccccc" noshade="true" size="1" /></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2" align="left"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">DCMI By-laws<p></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">The governance and operation structure of DCMI is formalized through a set of <a href="http://dublincore.org/about/bylaws/"><span style="color: blue">By-laws</span></a>. For all committees, the membership, responsibilities, selection and appointment process, terms, decision process, communication and documentation, and reporting are laid down.<p></p></span></p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en"><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="left"><hr align="center" width="100%" color="#cccccc" noshade="true" size="1" /></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2" align="left"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Organizational Structure<p></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Over the years, DCMI has developed from an informal group of researchers and practitioners with an interest in cross-domain metadata solutions to a more formal organizational structure, with a set of declared operational principles and number of committees that have clear roles and responsibilities in the governance of the Initiative. <a href="http://dublincore.org/about/organization/"><span style="color: blue">Learn more</span></a><p></p></span></p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en"><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="left"><hr align="center" width="100%" color="#cccccc" noshade="true" size="1" /></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2" align="left"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Board of Trustees<p></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">The <a href="http://dublincore.org/about/trustees/"><span style="color: blue">Board of Trustees</span></a> oversees the activities of the DCMI and its Directorate. It advises the Directorate on strategic issues and allocation of financial resources, contributes to the promotion of the Initiative through liaisons with the public and private sectors and assists in securing support for the Initiative. The current Board members are based in various parts of the world (North America, Europe, Asia, <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">New Zealand</place></country-region>) and have a strong mix of backgrounds (libraries, education, information science, commerce, consultancy, international organizations and foundations). <a href="http://dublincore.org/about/trustees/"><span style="color: blue">Learn more</span></a><p></p></span></p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en"><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="left"><hr align="center" width="100%" color="#cccccc" noshade="true" size="1" /></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2" align="left"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Affiliates<p></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">DCMI Affiliates are national or regional organizations that provide a link between the DCMI as a worldwide activity and the local and regional activities of practitioners. They promote and support the adoption of Dublin Core specifications within their region and help to raise local concerns in the larger global metadata community. <a href="http://dublincore.org/about/affiliates/"><span style="color: blue">Learn more</span></a><p></p></span></p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en"><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: center" align="left"><hr align="center" width="100%" color="#cccccc" noshade="true" size="1" /></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2" align="left"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">Community<p></p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" align="left"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: en">The DCMI is built on a community of individuals from many different backgrounds and disciplines located in organizations and institutions all over the world. These individuals and organizations committed to building and developing metadata standards, practices, policies and technologies are the foundation of this initiative. <a href="http://dublincore.org/about/participants/"><span style="color: blue">Learn more</span></a><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="left"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: fr"><a href="http://dublincore.org/about/"><br /><br />http://dublincore.org/about/</a><p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: left" align="left"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: fr"><p> </p></span></p>