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The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative:
DC-2004 Introduction
Makx Dekkers,Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
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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