2008-12-08, Sam Oh (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Stuart Sutton (University of Washington, USA) have been confirmed as Program Chairs for DC-2009, to be held 12-16 October 2009 at the National Library of Korea in Seoul. The theme of the conference will be "Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data". The Call for Papers will be published in January 2009.

2008-12-08, At its face-to-face meeting in Berlin, the DCMI Usage Board reviewed the Scholarly Works Application Profile and found it to be in conformance with its current review criteria, pending minor revisions. In response to a proposal from the DCMI Libraries Community for a new property "holding location", the Usage Board suggested the use of the existing property "availability" in the AGLS Metadata Terms maintained by the National Archives of Australia; suggestions regarding proposals for properties "date captured" and "version" were forwarded to the DCMI Libraries Community for further discussion. The Usage Board resolved to work with the AGLS Working Group on finalizing a DCMI property and related AGLS vocabulary encoding scheme for describing characteristics related to the accessibility of resources.

2008-10-06, This year's conference and workshop DC-2008, held from 22 through 26 September 2008 in Berlin, was very well attended with 312 participants from 170 organizations in 39 countries. Presentations that were given in all tracks during the event are now linked from the Programme page. DCMI wishes to thank the organizers of the conference Competence Centre Interoperable Metadata (KIM), Max Planck Digital Library, Göttingen State and University Library, the German National Library and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for hosting the conference.

2008-10-06, At the DCMI Advisory Board meeting in Berlin on 27 September 2008, the DCMI Tools Community announced that Seth Van Hooland of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, will replace Jane Greenberg as co-moderator of the group. In the DCMI Social Tagging Community, Liddy Nevile will hand over to Eva Méndez of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, and Ana Alice Baptista of the Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Seth and Ana have also become members of the DCMI Advisory Board. It was also decided at the meeting of the Advisory Board to deactivate the DCMI Date Task Group.

2008-10-06, "A MoinMoin Wiki Syntax for Description Set Profiles" has been published as a DCMI Working Draft. Using this syntax, editors can embed constraint information about application profiles into normal Wiki documents and extract this information using an Open Source MoinMoin Wiki tool for display in XML. This functionality is illustrated by the MoinMoin Wiki document for the Scholarly Works Application Profile.