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The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative:

DC-2004 Introduction

Makx Dekkers,Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

mail@makxdekkers.com

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DC-2004:

Welcome to Shanghai!

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Acknowledgements

• Organizing Committee:– Wu Jianzhong, Shanghai Library– Zhang Xiaolin, Library of the Chinese Academy of

Sciences– Yuan Haibo, National Science and Technology Library– The team at Shanghai Library

• Program committee:– Liu Wei, Shanghai Library– Thomas Baker, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft

• Tutorial committee– Diane Hillmann, Cornell University

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About Dublin Core and the Dublin Core Metadata

Initiative

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Origins of Dublin Core

• October 1994, brainstorm at 2nd WWW Conference, Chicago

• March 1995, NCSA/OCLC workshop in Dublin, Ohio

• Identified the need for a metadata “Core”: small, common set to describe Web content to help discovery

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Status of Dublin Core

• Since 1995, 11 workshops/conferences held

• Many resources have Dublin Core metadata, we do not know how many

• 2003: ISO ratifies Dublin Core metadata as International Standard 15836

• Metadata ‘terms’ and implementation guidelines on DCMI Web site

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Highlights of Dublin Core

• Simple solution for basic interoperability

• Minimise resources to create metadata• Facilities to add local extensions• Often used for ‘controlled collections’• General search engines consider hybrid

solutions (full text and metadata from trusted sources)

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DCMI Mission and Scope

• Facilitate resource discovery by:– Standards for discovery across domains– Frameworks for interoperability– Facilitating development of community profiles

• Activities:– Standards development: workshops, working

groups– Tools and infrastructure, including Registry– Outreach, training, liaison with other metadata

activities

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DCMI work structure

• DCMI’s three ‘I’s:– Independent– International– Influencable – open and consensus-

driven• Work takes place in Working

Groups around certain technical themes or domain interests – anyone can participate

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DCMI Community

• Many domains represented: archives, broadcasting, corporate, education, libraries, environment, government, etc. etc.

• 20 working groups• 3,300 subscribers to working group list

and DC-General• Representation from over 50 countries

and over 1,000 organizations

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DCMI Governance

• Board of Trustees – high-level experts who oversee the operations

• Advisory Board – technical experts who advise the Directorate

• Usage Board – maintains semantics• Affiliates – national bodies who

share in promoting and funding the Initiative

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DCMI Affiliate Program – community ownership

• Maintaining and promoting standards requires resources

• Long-time support from OCLC• National Affiliates share in

promoting and funding the Initiative• Current Affiliates:

– National Library of Finland– MLA/JISC in the UK

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About DC-2004

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Overview

• 4 Tutorials• 5 Keynotes (3 shared with Shanghai

International Library Forum, Wednesday)

• 3 Plenary Paper Sessions (10 papers)• 4 Short Paper Sessions (21 papers)• 14 Working Group meetings• 5 Special Sessions

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Tutorials

• Monday: Semantics– Diane Hillmann

• Tuesday: Syntax– Andy Powell

• Wednesday: Application Profiles– Thomas Baker, Robina Clayphan, Pete

Johnston

• Thursday: Controlled vocabularies– Stuart Sutton, Joseph Tennis

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Keynotes

• Monday: – Zhang Xiaolin, Library of Chinese Academy of

Sciences

• Tuesday: – Wayne Hodgins, Autodesk and IEEE/LOM

• Wednesday (joint session with SILF):– Zhan Furui, National Library of China

– Alex Byrne, IFLA President-elect

– Eric Miller, World Wide Web Consortium

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Plenary Paper Sessions

• Monday:– Metadata Frameworks

• Tuesday:– Metadata Users– Managing & Harvesting Metadata

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Short Paper Sessions

• Tuesday:– Vocabularies and Application Profiles

• Wednesday:– Models– Case Studies

• Thursday:– Tools and Methods

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Working Groups meetings

• Monday: – Government, Collections, Education,

Corporate, Date

• Tuesday: – Standards, Libraries, Kernel/ERC

• Wednesday: – Architecture, Accessibility,

Internationalization, Preservation

• Thursday: – User documentation, Registry

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Special Sessions

• Monday/Tuesday:– Semantic Web

• Tuesday:– Affiliate Program

• Wednesday:– IFLA, NISO Metasearch Initiative

• Thursday: – Dublin Core/LOM

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Have a good meeting!

Makx Dekkers,Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

mail@makxdekkers.com