1. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 1 The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: DC-2004 Introduction Makx Dekkers, Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative mail@makxdekkers.com

2. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 2 DC-2004: Welcome to Shanghai!

3. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 3 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

4. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 4 About Dublin Core and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

5. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 5 Origins of Dublin Core October 1994, brainstorm at 2 nd 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

6. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 6 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

7. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 7 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)

8. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 8 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

9. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 9 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

10. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 10 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

11. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 11 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

12. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 12 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

13. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 13 About DC-2004

14. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 14 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

15. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 15 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

16. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 16 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

17. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 17 Plenary Paper Sessions Monday: –Metadata Frameworks Tuesday: –Metadata Users –Managing & Harvesting Metadata

18. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 18 Short Paper Sessions Tuesday: –Vocabularies and Application Profiles Wednesday: –Models –Case Studies Thursday: –Tools and Methods

19. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 19 Working Groups meetings Monday: –Government, Collections, Education, Corporate, Date Tuesday: –Standards, Libraries, Kernel/ERC Wednesday: –Architecture, Accessibility, Internationalization, Preservation Thursday: –User documentation, Registry

20. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 20 Special Sessions Monday/Tuesday: –Semantic Web Tuesday: –Affiliate Program Wednesday: –IFLA, NISO Metasearch Initiative Thursday: –Dublin Core/LOM

21. 11 October 2004DC-2004 @ Shanghai Library © 2004 DCMI 21 Have a good meeting! Makx Dekkers, Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative mail@makxdekkers.com