The DC Executive Committee manages the ongoing activities of the DC metadata initiative. The Policy Advisory Committee is made up of representatives of the major stakeholder communities and liaises between the communities and the DC Directorate. The Technical Advisory Committee is comprised of the working group chairs and is the forum for ratification of proposals. The workshop series is concerned with the building of an interdisciplinary, international consensus around a core element. The working groups concern themselves with problem solving and survive only for the duration of a particular workshop.
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The governments of Australia, Denmark, and Finland have adopted the Dublin Core for the description of official government documents at regional and state levels. The 7th DC workshop was held on 25-27th October 1999 in Frankfurt, Germany. RDF is a declarative language providing a standard way for using XML to represent metadata. Important to the widespread acceptance of metadata elements is the need for software vendors to develop templates allowing for the easy insertion of metadata. The Dublin Core.