PBCore on GitHub is now public
In the interests of community, transparency and sustainability, the PBCore team has decided to make the PBCore 2.0 respository on GitHub a public repository. It is a bit unusual to approach a metadata standard like it were an open source application, but we found GitHub to be helpful in our process for developing PBCore 2.0 […]
PBCore Revision History
Having just published PBCore 2.0, we thought we’d summarize the evolution of the schema. Following is a timeline and summary of previous versions of PBCore. For new developments in 2.0, see Jack Brighton’s “Introducing PBCore 2.0″ post.
PBCore version 1.3
Here’s the version 1.3 XSD and documentation, which is an interim release to focus primarily on supporting upcoming American Archive projects.
PBCore v1.2 in on the Horizon
A portion of the original PBCore v1.1 metadata dictionary is changing into what will be known as PBCore v1.2. The justification for changes to the PBCore schema is to better accommodate the possibility that a media asset may have multiple instantiations, all the same except for technical attributes. Thus, metadata elements that describe a media […]
PBCore and Version 1.1 Presented at SURA ViDe 2007
At the 2007 conference of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and the Video Development Initiative (ViDe)(March 26-29), the release of PBCore Version 1.1 was highlighted in a presentation by Paul E. Burrows reviewing the current activities of the PBCore Project. Attendees were updated on the advocacy, promotion, and adoption engagements of PBCore with industry […]
PBCore v1.1 XSD is Published!
The PBCore v1.1 XML Schema Definition (XSD) is published! For a complete discussion on what this means for the advancement of PBCore and facilitating our Community of Practice, see http://pbcore.org/PBCore/PBCoreXMLSchema.html. Since the initial publication (April 2005) of the Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary (PBCore), many stations, organizations and information systems have begun to use its 53 […]
PBCore Version 1.1 is Published!
We are excited to announce that Version 1.1 of PBCore is released. Since the initial publication (April 2005) of the Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary–PBCore v1.0, many stations, organizations and information systems have used its 48 elements to describe the intellectual content, property rights, and instantiations/formats of their media items and intellectual properties. During this last […]
PBCore and Version 1.1 Presented at NETA 2007
At the 2007 conference of the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) (January 25-28), the new release of PBCore Version 1.1 was highlighted in a presentation by Paul E. Burrows reviewing the current activities of the PBCore Project. Attendees were updated on the advocacy, promotion, and adoption engagements of PBCore with industry groups, national and local […]
PBCore XSD (XML Schema Definition) Ready for Comments
he XSD (XML Schema Definition) for the PBCore metadata dictionary is available in draft form and is ready for comment from interested parties. The schema is available in both pdf and Word doc (zipped) formats. For background information about XML schemas, link to our web page PBCore XML Schema. To comment on the XML Schema, […]
