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        Register now for DC-2004 Conference in Shanghai
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        July 23, 2004

        <P>The International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2004 will be held October 11-14, 2004 at the Shanghai (China) Library. </P>
    <P>The annual Dublin Core conferences focus on metadata research and applications.&nbsp; The theme of DC-2004 is Metadata Across Languages and Cultures.</P>
    <P>Sponsored in partnership with the Shanghai Library, DC-2004 is the annual conference of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI).</P>
    <P>DCMI promotes the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and develops specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems.</P>
        <P>DC-2004 Conference Web site<BR><A href="http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/">http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/</A></P>
    <P>DCMI<BR><A href="http://dublincore.org/">http://dublincore.org/</A></P>

        Makx Dekkers

        Stu Weibel
        weibel@oclc.org
        +1-614-764-6081

        Director
        Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
        Research Scientist
        OCLC Research