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The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative8th Plenary Workshop
Stuart WeibelStuart WeibelSenior Research ScientistSenior Research ScientistOCLC Office of ResearchOCLC Office of Research
Director, Dublin Core Metadata InitiativeDirector, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Copyright 2000 - All Rights Reserved
Nation Library of CanadaOttawa, Canada
October 4-6, 2000
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Who are you?
150 participants, 20 countries
Representatives of libraries, museums, digital library researchers, archives, software developers and vendors, publishers, policy makers, government information services….
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DCMI:Who are ‘we’?
You are ‘we’ DCMI is an open consensus building initiative International scope 2 major ‘products’ and supporting documents
(so far) A process (honored too much in the breech…) A community A culture A forum
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DCMIHow did we start?
1994 conversation at WWW-2 DC-1: 52 multidisciplinary practitioners How do we improve resource description on the
Web? Interdisciplinary, international consensus about
a simple standard for resource discovery
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Dublin Core Workshop Series
Chicago WWW Conference Oct, 1994 OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Mar, 1995 OCLC/UKOLN Warwick Workshop, UK Apr, 1996 CNI/OCLC Image Metadata Workshop Sep, 1996 DC-4, Canberra, Australia Mar, 1997 DC-5, Helsinki, Finland Oct, 1997 DC-6, Washington, DC, USA Nov, 1998 DC-7, Frankfurt, Germany Oct, 1999 DC-8, Ottawa, Canada Oct, 2000
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The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Dublin CoreWeb Site
http://purl.org/dchttp://dublincore.org
DC-General Dublin Core Mail Server
Working Groups
DCAdvisory Committee
Dublin CoreDirectorate
DC Executive Committee
Stakeholder Communities
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Why are we here?
To focus a shared vision To spread the faith To transfer expertise, experience, insight To identify problems To propose solutions To organize the 2001 work plan
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Adoption by Major Communities
Australia, Denmark, Finland: public information discovery
Cultural heritage institutions
Libraries Educational resources Print and Preprint
archives NASA/JPL image
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Software repositories eBooks Financial and Insurance
industries Aerospace and
Automotive applications GIS applications Health Commerce: information
syndication (RSS)
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DCMIYear 2000 Milestones
DC-Qualifiers Standardization efforts Dublin Core as a grammar for metadata DC-Education: Community-specific metadata
Proposal for auxiliary elements, qualifiers
DC-Registry Application Profiles
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DCMI Qualifiers
DC Qualifiers approved and issued in July Element Refinements: narrow the meaning of the
element Encoding Schemes: Controlled vocabularies or
parsing rules to refine the interpretation of an element
http://purl.org/dc
http://dublincore.org
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Syntax Documentsare in the pipeline
Guidelines for expression of qualified DC metadata are in progress: User Guide: new version last week Syntax Guides
HTML-DCMI Recommendation HTML-Qualifiers: Proposed Recommendation XML DTD: Proposed Recommendation DC-Qualifiers XML DTD - in progress RDF - In progress
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DCMIOpen Source Software
Collaborative development promotes community commitment
Promote toolkits, utilities, and applications that support the creation, management, and exploitation of metadata
We hope many will contribute
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DCMI Open Metadata Registry
EOR: Managing vocabularies defined by DCMI Languages Versioning Controlled vocabularies
Foundation for modular, incremental integration and evolution
Collaboration with European Schema project, ULIS in Tsukuba, Japan, ILRT (SchemRama) in Bristol
http://rdf.dev.oclc.org/myrdf/services/EOpenRegistry
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Alternative Representations of DC Metadata
Japanese
English
Portuguese
Danish
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The Complete Matrix:A registry of metadata Semantics
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DCMIRe-organization
Communications Improved communications
Documentation, training, outreach, processes
Mission and Focus Expanded scope
Exploration of re-organization models Membership? (W3C, Unicode Consortium) Retain open consensus model International perspective Stakeholder governance
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Mission of the DCMI
The mission of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is to make it easier to find resources using the Internet through the following activities: Developing metadata standards for resource
discovery across domains Defining frameworks for the interoperation of
metadata sets Facilitating the development of community- or
domain-specific metadata sets that work within these frameworks
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Scope of Activities
Standards Development meetings and workshops to
support development of standards and best practice
Communications Website, working drafts,
documentation, recommendations, mailing lists...
Liaisons Promote interoperability
through liaison activities with other initiatives
Tools and Services promote availability of tools
to support creation, management, and use of DC metadata
Metadata Registry:infrastructure for managing vocabularies in multiple languages
Research Advance the infrastructure
and frameworks to support metadata interoperability
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Research and Practice
In theory, theory and practice are the same… In practice… they never are
Research is about guided change Standardization is about guided stasis
DCMI embodies both: both are essential to its success
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Liaisons
IEEE-LOM, IMS Education Resources
GILS MPEG W3C
Open Archives Initiative
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
RSS XML.COM
Development of liaisons with other metadata activities will improve prospects for interoperability
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Standardization
CEN Workshop Agreement formalized in January, 2000
NISO: Z39.85
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CEN MMI-DCWorkshop Agreement
Leif Andresen Endorse Version 1.1 Dublin Core element set as
CWA 13874 Providing guidelines for industry to assist the
adoption of Dublin Core in Europe Locating and establishing active participation
and contributions from relevant projects and activities, resulting in a web based "Observatory" on European work on metadata.
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NISO
John Kunze National Information Standards Organization
ANSI affiliate
Z39.85 Fast Track balloting concluded August 15;
Z39.85 has been approved, pending completion of administrative requirements
ISO Fast track process is a natural successor
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DC-8 Agenda Highlights
Architectural issues Modular extension of structured values Resources, Agents, Events
Application Profiles Registry Issues Domain Specific Metadata
DC-Education DC-Government, DC-Library DC-Research, Explorations for working group in preservation metadata
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Your Role?
Participate in discussions Bring your expertise to bear Join a working group where you’d like to
contribute Spread the word
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative progresses on the aggregate effort of its constituents
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Thanks...
To CNI and IFLA UDT Program as sponsors To the National Science Foundation and OCLC
for travel support To the National Library of Canada, and
particularly to Louise Lantaigne and her staff for local organization
To the DC Advisory committee and the DC-8 Program committee
To you… for your investment in the Dublin Core