Information discovery is what Dublin Core metadata 'data about data' are all about. The Dublin Core metadata element set, for years the leading de facto standard, has during 2003 also obtained a formal recognition of its leading role through its publication as IS 15836.
Internationally, work resides within the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). The MMI-DC Workshop, at the European level, has been an open forum in which Dublin Core metadata standards related issues got addressed. The Workshop's activities were complementary to the work done within the international DCMI context.
The workshop has now completed its work and is closed since 14 November 2007.
The Workshop produced over the years a number of CEN Workshop Agreements and reports:
CWA 13988 Revised
Guidance information for the use of Dublin Core in Europe
CWA14855 - Dublin Core Application Profile guidelines
CWA 14856 - Guidance material for mapping between Dublin Core and ISO in the Geograpic Information domain
CWA 14857 - Mapping between Dublin Core and IS 19115, 'Geographic Information – Metadata'
CWA 14858 - Dublin Core Spatial Application Profile
CWA 14859 - Guidance on the use of metadata in eGovernment
CWA 14860 - Dublin Core eGovernment Application Profiles
CWA15244 - General guidance for the deployment of Dublin Core metadata (to supersede CWA 13988: 2003)
CWA15245 - EU eGovernment Metadata Framework (see also CWA14859 and 14860)
CWA15246 - Guidance for the deployment of the EU eGovernment Metadata Framework (see also CWA14859 and 14860)
CWA15247 - Guidance for the deployment of Dublin Core metadata in Corporate environments
CWA15248 - Guidelines for machine-processable representation of Dublin Core Application Profiles
CWA15249 - Guidance for naming, versioning, evolution and maintenance of element declarations and Application Profiles
A report identifying of metadata issues enabling support for accessibility and mulitlinguality - download final report
These CWAs can also be downloaded from the MMI-DC CWA download area.
Note: the name MMI-DC comes from the fact that this Workshop was the successor of the MMI Workshop (Metadata for Multimedia Information) which was active in the period 1998 - 1999 and which dealt with metadata more generally.