2008-07-07, The final programme of DC-2008, to be held from 22 through 26 September in Berlin, is expected to be published on 14 July. The early bird discount will be available until 31 July 2008. Please go to the registration page to register for the conference, tutorials and seminars.

2008-07-07, The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, the Italian Digital Renaissance Foundation that promotes the use of the new Information and Communication Technologies for cultural heritage applications, has joined the DCMI Partnership Program as a Gold Partner.

2008-07-07, Jane Greenberg, Program co-Chair of DC-2008 and co-moderator of the DCMI Tools Community, has been awarded the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology 2008. This award is given annually for outstanding research in information science and information retrieval, and was presented at the ALA/LITA conference in June 2008 in Anaheim, California, USA. The DCMI Directorate wishes to congratulate Jane for winning this prestiguous award.

2008-06-19, The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that Infocom Corporation, the Japanese company that develops InfoLib, an integrated multimedia search system that is based on the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, has become a Platinum Partner in the DCMI Partnership Program.

2008-06-09, A DCMI Registry Task Group has been set up with the primary aims of developing shared functional requirements and inter-registry interoperability issues. This group is currently recruiting participants. Those with an interest in metadata schema registries, terminology registries, ontology registries and metadata vocabulary management are invited to visit the Task Group's Wiki for further information, news, upcoming events and opportunities to contribute.