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Work in Process: Documents Available for Public Comment

Currently Available for Public Comment

• Public Comment will befrom 5 February through 5 March 2007 on a revised version of the DCMI Abstract Model and revised DCMI Namespace Policy. Comments should be posted to the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list, including "[DCAM Public Comment]" in the subject line.
• Public Comment will befrom 5 February through 5 March 2007 on a proposal "Domains and Ranges for DCMI Properties". Comments should be posted to the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list, including "[Domains and Ranges Public Comment]" in the subject line.

Forthcoming Public Comment Periods

• None at the moment.

Past Public Comment Periods (last 12 months)

• Public comment was held from 28 August to 25 September 2006 on a proposed a set of editorial changes to definitions of terms in the original fifteen-element Dublin Core Metadata Element Set.
• Public comment was held from 30 May to 27 June 2006 on the following Working Drafts.
• Expressing Dublin Core metadata using XML -- see dc-architecture posting
• Expressing Dublin Core metadata using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) -- see dc-architecture posting
• Public comment was held from 13 February to 13 March 2006 on revised versions of four existing DCMI recommendations: DCMI DCSV, the DCMI Box Encoding Scheme, the DCMI Period Encoding Scheme, and the DCMI Point Encoding Scheme. This public comment period was undertaken as follow-up to an earlier public comment period, from 25 July to 22 August 2005. After finalization these revised documents have replaced the older legacy specifications as DCMI Recommendations.
• Public comment was held from 8 December 2005 to 31 January 2006 on a set of proposed editorial changes to terms in the DCMI Type Vocabulary. The comments received during this period were reported in a tabular summary and discussed at a meeting of the DCMI Usage Board on 29-30 April 2006.