Interoperability Focus: Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda

Highlights from Interoperability Focus and others

Begun in September 1999, this page includes access to the monthly activity reports of Interoperability Focus, as well as headlines from other projects and communities of relevance. The list of topics covered, and their level of detail, will grow over time.

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• Monthly News

• Monthly News from Interoperability Focus
• Brief reports, prepared each month, on work completed or underway, and on some of the issues currently requiring attention.

  Standards

• Dublin Core [What is it?]
• • News from the Dublin Core community.
  • Dublin Core adopted for describing 'electronic books' [21-Sep-1999]
  • Revised definitions for the Dublin Core Element Set announced [01-Sep-1999]
  • Dublin Core working group on educational metadata launched [23-Aug-1999]
  • Old news about the Dublin Core
• IEEE's Learning Object Model and IMS [What is it?]
• • News from this educational metadata initiative and the IMS Project, whose metadata standard is based upon it.
  • Version 1 of IMS Metadata specification released [23-Aug-1999]
  • Old news about IMS
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [What is it?]
• • News emanating from the working groups of the web organization
  • Joint communique on future of XML-SCHEMA and RDF-SCHEMA [13-Sep-1999]
  • Old news from the W3C
• Z39.50 [What is it?]
• • News relating to the continuing evolution of this important communications standard.
  • Draft of the Bath Profile released for comment [15-Oct-1999]
  • Old news about Z39.50

  Communities

• Cross-Domain
• • General community news of relevance to libraries, museums and archives.
  • UK New Opportunities Fund (NOF) content guidelines released [01-Sep-1999]
  • Old cross-domain news
• Museums
• • General community news relevant to museums.
  • European Museums' Information Institute funded by European Commission's RAPHAEL Programme [01-Sep-1999]
  • Old museum news
• Archives
• • General community news relevant to archives.
  • Old archive news
• Libraries
• • General community news relevant to libraries
  • Old library news

  Other Sources

• A non-comprehensive list of other useful sources of current information in this field
• • Ariadne, a UK-based electronic journal for librarians and information scientists.
  • D-Lib
  • , a monthly electronic journal for digital librarians from the United States.
  • ninch-announce, an e-mail news service from the National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH).
  • interoperability, an e-mail list for discussion of issues related to building interoperable services.