0. Are We Communicating Effectively?
2011 CEAL Conference
Are We Communicating Effectively?
Jinho PARK
Senior Researcher
The National Library of Korea
March 30, 2011

1. Who am I? Senior Researcher of The National Library of Korea (2007 ~ )
Korea Working Group Leader of CJKDLI (2010 ~ )
ISO TC 46/SC 9 Korea Secretary (2007 ~ )
DCMI System Manager (2009 ~ )
Member of Korea Web Science Workgroup (2009 ~ )
Areas of Research Interests
Digital Archiving (Preservation), Information Literacy, Web Science (Metadata, Linked data)

2. Development of CJKDLI
China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Initiative (CJKDLI)
October, 2008: The National Diet Library, Japan
Discussion about metadata interoperability, digital archiving, standardization
 October, 2009: WLIC, Italia
Representatives from 3 countries (Directors & Vice-Directors) agreed about the necessity of the Asian Digital Library Project.
June, 2010: The National Library of Korea
Contents of CJKDLI Agreement was finally agreed.
August, 2010: WLIC, Sweden
CJKDLI Agreement was concluded and signed.
May or June, 2011: The National Library of China
1st CJKDLI Working Group Meeting will be held.

3. CJKDLI Agreement ARTICLE 1 Objectives
The objectives of the China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Initiative are to provide easy integrated access on the Internet to the cultural and scientific heritage of the three countries, to enable people to discover rich multilingual and culturally diverse contents and to contribute to the academic world.
The China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Initiative (CJKDLI) is intended to enrich oriental culture, promote the cultural diversity of Asia and contribution to Asia and world civilization.

4. Now, CJKDLI is at the Startling Line!?

5. CJKDLI: The Key to Success
Make CJKDLI Contents User-Friendly: Easy to Look-up and Use
Manage CJKDLI Resources User-Friendly: Put Ourselves in the User’s Shoes
Ultimately, Good Communication Skill/Means is Required for Effective and Efficient Communicating with the User and the Resources

6. Communication Medium Metadata
With everyday cataloging work, we may have forgotten the important fact that the metadata is also the data.
For this purpose, MDR can be the fundamental solution to the problem by ensuring the interoperability between two systems or between information and information.
So far, we just have used one standard—MARC--and then applied mapping or metadata crosswalk, but it was not the fundamental solution.

7. ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) -- (1)
ISO/IEC specifies the kind and quality of metadata necessary to describe data, and it specifies the management and administration of that metadata in a metadata registry (MDR). It applies to the formulation of data representations, concepts, meanings, and relationships between them to be shared among people and machines, independent of the organization that produces the data. It does not apply to the physical representation of data as bits and bytes at the machine level.
In ISO/IEC 11179, metadata refers to descriptions of data. ISO/IEC does not contain a general treatment of metadata. ISO/IEC :2004 provides the means for understanding and associating the individual parts of ISO/IEC and is the foundation for a conceptual understanding of metadata and metadata registries.

8. ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) -- (2)
Part 1: Framework
2004
Part 2: Classification
2005
Part 3: Registry metamodel and basic attributes [ISO/IEC FCD ]
2003
Part 4: Formulation of data definitions
Part 5: Naming and identification principles
Part 6: Registration

9. ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) -- (3)
Overview Model for ISO/IEC Metadata Registry
Specifying
DATA ELEMENT CONCEPT
CONCEPTUAL DOMAIN
(N:1)
Having
Represented by
Expressed by
Expressing
(1:N)
(1:N)
Representing
DATA ELEMENT
Representing
VALUE DOMAIN
(N:1)
Represented by

10. ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) -- (4)
Data Element = Data Element Concept + Representation
(Conceptual Level)
(Representational Level)
DATA ELEMENT CONCEPT
DATA ELEMENT
(1:N)
Object Class
Object Class
(Book, People, Car..)
Property
Property
(Color, Size, Kind, Age..)
Representation

11. ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) -- (5)
Fundamental model for value domains
CONCEPTUAL DOMAIN
VALUE DOMAIN
(1:N)
[Country]
[대한민국, 한국, KOR, KR]
[Country]
Algeria
China
Korea, Republic of
Zimbabwe
DZA, DZ, 012
CHN, CN, 056
KOR, KR, 410
ZWE, ZW, 716
DZA, DZ, 012
CHN, CN, 056
KOR, KR, 410
ZWE, ZW, 716
ISO Alpha Code
ISO Alpha Code
ISO numeric Code
Value meaning
Permissible values
CONCEPTUAL DOMAIN
VALUE MEANING
PERMISSIBLE VALUES
VALUE DOMAIN
(1:N)
(1:1)
(N:1)

12. Why MDR? Back to the Basic Classification
Concept: Intension (connotation), Extension (denotation)
With the recent discussion about semantic Web and ontology, the importance of MDR has once again come to the fore.

13. Meaning Triangle

14. Cogito, ergo sum Aristotle Cogito, ergo sum
Rene Descartes and Augustine
Different Context

15. Conclusion
CJKDLI should be a better project than another new digital library where the user can access to the digital heritage of the Asia on the Web.
CJKDLI will make it possible for the users all over the world to see the Asian culture with the philosophy of Asians.
If CJKDLI is able to show “HOW” Asians feel and express differently than Westerners when they see the same color or object, then I think it will be a real success.