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

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Portuguese

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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