1. Metadata: Expanding the Challenges Expanding Access: Connecting the Global Community to a Multitude of Formats 11th Biennial OLAC Conference Montréal, October 1-3, 2004 Presenter: Guy Teasdale Bibliothèque de l’Université Laval

2. 2 of 15 Introduction Is it Metadata versus Cataloguing ?

3. 3 of 15 Overview What has changed on the Internet since a couple of years ? What has changed in the metadata field since the last OLAC conference ? What is going to change if we are to expand access and connect the global community to a multitude of formats ? What is the future ?

4. 4 of 15 The shift to a Knowledge economy is expanding rapidly [and it’s digital] Digitization is dissolving traditional frontiers between formats. There is a massive shift to digital material Content is being unbundled from traditional containers as books, journals and cd’s Wikis and Blog publishing + syndication mechanism (RSS) are on the rise « It is clear that librarians, as experts in providing context for storehouses of traditional content, need to find ways to fit into a world where content and the channels to distribute it are ubiquitous »

5. 5 of 15 How Much Information 2003 ? In 2002 the Surface Web contained 167 terabytes of information (This is 17 times the size of the Library of Congress print collection !) Information explosion? « We estimate that new stored information grew about 30% a year between 1999 and 2002 » http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/index.htm

6. 6 of 15 The Deep WEB 91 850 terabytes of rich and valuable information PS A file size of 91 850 terabytes can also be expressed as 96 311 705 600 megabytes or 94 054 400 gigabytes

7. 7 of 15 Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Protocol NDLTD ULaval OAIster NLC « I believe that this is going to be a vital component of the digital information infrastructure. (...) I think that this project has been a superb model of how to rapidly develop a robust and stable protocol. » – Clifford Lynch

8. 8 of 15 METADATA

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10. 10 of 15 Metamap

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12. 12 of 15 LoC Metadata Landscape From: McCallum, Sally H. : « Library of Congress Metadata Landscape » Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie. Vol 50, no 4 (2003)

13. 13 of 15 Metadata TIMELINE and milestones 1945 « As we may think » 1965 MARC format 1969 GML 1986 SGML 1987 TEI DTD 1989 TBL circulates "Information Management: A Proposal Birth of the WWW"Information Management: A Proposal 1989 HTML DTD a new format which permits interoperability across the Web 1993 (sept) NCSA releases working versions of the Mosaic browser for all common platforms: X, PC/Windows and Macintosh. 1995 Dublin Core 1996 LoC publishes SGML MARC DTD (too soon)

14. 14 of 15 Timeline (2 of 2) 1998 XML : Structured data interchange 1999 MARC 21 1999 Namespaces in XML 2000 Open Archives Initiative 2000 TBL publishes Semantic Web 2001 DC=NISO Z39.85 2001 MARCXML 2001 XML Schema Specification 2001 METS 2002 MODS 2003 DC = ISO 15836

15. 15 of 15 Conclusion What could be our role in the Semantic Web ? Continue to insure uniformity, authority control Contextualize information Learn new skills, adapt Next step Web of Trust Digital signatures Copyright – Fair use