22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track1 The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative DC-2001 Workshop Track Stuart Weibel DCMI Executive Director Makx Dekkers DCMI Managing Director

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track2 Welcome to Tokyo! 100 plus registrants for Workshop Track 300 plus for tutorials and conference tracks Registrants from 30 countries 100 plus from overseas

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track3 How did we get here? DC-2001 is held in Asia in recognition of our hopes for a global, multilingual resource discovery infrastructure DC-2001 is held in Japan in recognition of the role that Japan has played in digital library research and development and in the evolution of the Dublin Core Through the commitment and hard work of NII and its partners

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track4 Who got us here? Jun Adachii, DC-2001 General Chair Shigeo Sugimoto and Tom Baker, Conference Chairs Erik Jul, Tutorial Chair Makx Dekkers, Workshop Chair Keizo Oyama, Local Organizing Committee Chair and publications

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track5 Essential Others The DC-2001 Program Committee Leif Andresen Ann Apps Rei Atarashi Thomas Baker Jose Borbinha Hsueh-hua Chen Key-Sun Choi Makx Dekkers Hironobu Gotoda Jane Greenberg Rebecca Guenther Hachim Haddouti Rachel Heery Diane I. Hillmann Jane Hunter Masakazu Imai Noriko Kando Stephen L. Katz Sung Hyuk Kim Traugott Koch John Kunze Carl Lagoze Ee-Peng Lim Lynn F. Marko Jon Mason Paul Miller Liddy Nevile Sam G. Oh Diann Rusch-Feja Roland Schwaenzl Praditta Siripan Shigeo Sugimoto Stuart A. Sutton Anna Maria Tammaro Hiroyuki Taya Mitsutoshi Wada Stuart L. Weibel Cheng-Juei Wu Jianzhong Wu Vilas Wuwongse Masatoshi Yoshikawa

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track6 Essential Others – Local Organizing Committee Jun AdachiKoji Eguchi Takehisa Fujita Hironobu Gotoda Ichiro Ide Yuko Miyamtoto Noriko Kando Keizo Oyama Takayuki Saito Shigeo Sugimoto Urara Numata Secretariat

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track7 Thanks also to NIIs DC-2001 Partners: Japanese Science and Technology Corporation University of Library and Information Science (Tsukuba) Communications Research Laboratory National Diet Library DCMI

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track8 Thanks also to: NII, OCLC, and Coalition for Network Information (CNI) who donated funds to support travel stipends

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track9 And, of course… Participants and their institutions, who have invested time, and treasure, and intellect in the expectation that we can achieve common goals

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track10 Why are we here? To advance the cause of global resource discovery infrastructure on behalf of our various constituents

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track11 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative The mission of DCMI is to make it easier to find resources using the Internet through the following activities: –Developing metadata standards for discovery across domains (example: the Dublin Core) –Defining frameworks for the interoperation of metadata sets –Facilitating the development of community or disciplinary specific metadata sets

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track12 What do we do? DCMI Activities: Standards development and maintenance Technical working groups and periodic workshops Tutorial materials and user guides Metadata registry and infrastructure Education and training Liaisons with other standards or user communities

DCMI Organizational Structure Liaison Usage Board Standards Development WGs Infrastructure WGs User Support and Education WGs Advisory Board DCMI Subscribers DCMI Activity Areas Board of Trustees Executive Director Managing Director Directorate

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track14 How do we do our work? DC-General Mailing list Working groups organized around specific tasks Working group mailing lists Working group meetings An annual Workshop

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track15 The Role of the Workshop Community building Bring participants together for face-to- face discussions of outstanding issues Identify the needs of the community Formulate a workplan for the coming year

22 October, 2001DC-2001 Workshop Track16 Makx Dekkers Managing Director, DCMI A review of the DCMI 2001 Workplan