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Translations of DCMI Documents

Members of the DCMI Community have taken the time to translate DCMI documents. A list of these translations is maintained on this page.

Translation Sites

• Spanish - Hosted by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, el Instituto Agustín Millares de Documentación y Gestión de la Información
• Japanese - Hosted by the School of Library and Information Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan

DCMI Metadata Terms

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by the Shanghai Library
• Italian - maintained by Pasquale Popolizio, Websemantico.org
• Norwegian - translation by Frank Berg Haugen and Carol van Nuys for the Norwegian Committee on Cataloguing

Overview of Documentation for DCMI Metadata Terms

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by the Shanghai Library

Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile Summary

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by the Shanghai Library

Dublin Core Element Set: Reference Description, v. 1.1

• Arabic - maintained by Hachim Haddouti
• Catalan - maintained by the Biblioteca de Catalunya
• Chinese (Big 5 font)
• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by the Shanghai Library
• Czech
• Danish - by Leif Andresen, Danish National Library Authority
• Dutch
• Finnish - by Jani Stenvall and Juha Hakala, Helsinki University Library
• French - by Anne-Marie Vercoustre, Inria
• Greek (Word file) - by Sarantos Kapidakis, Laboratory on Digital Library and Electronic Publishing Ionian University
• Italian - by Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information
• Interlingua - by Emerson José Silveira da Costa
• Japanese - by Shigeo Sugimoto
• Korean - by Sam-Gyun Oh, SungKyunKwan University
• Maori
• Marathi - by Shubhada Nagarkar, Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune
• Norwegian - by Frank B. Haugen and Carol van Nuys, Nasjonalbiblioteket
• Polish - by Marek Nahotko, EBIB Electronic Information Bulletin For Librarians
• Portuguese - by José Luis Borbinha, National Library of Portugal
• Russian - by Olga Barysheva, National Library of Russia
• Swedish - by Stina Degerstedt, The Royal Library, National Library of Sweden
• Thai - by Praditta Siripan, Technical Information Access Center (TIAC)
• Turkish
• Ukrainian - by Oleh Volokhin, Kirovohrad Regional Research Library
• Welsh - by Lyn Lewis Dafis, National Library of Wales

Dublin Core Element Set: Reference Description, v. 1.0

• Finnish - by Juha Hakala
• German - by Diann Rusch-Feja
• Greek - by Sarantos Kapidakis, Laboratory on Digital Library and Electronic Publishing Ionian University
• Norwegian - by Ole Husby, BIBSYS
• Spanish - by Javi Masa, RedIRIS
• Thai (PDF)
• Ukrainian - Hanna Voskresenska and Svetlana Sanzhak, Lesya Ukrainka Public Library

Dublin Core Qualifiers

• Catalan - maintained by the Biblioteca de Catalunya
• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by the Shanghai Library
• Finnish - by Jani Stenvall and Juha Hakala
• Greek (Word file) - by Sarantos Kapidakis, Laboratory on Digital Library and Electronic Publishing Ionian University
• Korean - by Sam Oh
• Polish - by Marek Nahotko
• Russian - by Olga Barysheva, National Library of Russia
• Spanish - by Marcela Calderon, Universidad de Chile
• Ukrainian - by Oleh Volokhin, Kirovohrad Regional Research Library

DCMI Type Vocabulary

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by the Shanghai Library
• Russian (Word file) - Olga Barysheva and Elina Belonozhka, The National Library of Russia, Saint-Petersburg

Library Application Profile

• Chinese (Simplified) - maintained by the Shanghai Library

Using Dublin Core - Final Version -

• Catalan - by Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
• French - by Guy Teasdale, Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval

A User Guide for Simple Dublin Core - Working Draft -

• Finnish - by Jani Stenvall and Juha Hakala

Other translations

• Greek - by Sarantos Kapidakis, Laboratory on Digital Library and Electronic Publishing Ionian University
  (In English)