Transcript The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Status Report 2001

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
DC-2001 Workshop Track
Stuart Weibel
DCMI Executive Director
Makx Dekkers
DCMI Managing Director
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Welcome to Tokyo!
• 100 plus registrants for Workshop Track
• 300 plus for tutorials and conference
tracks
• Registrants from 30 countries
• 100 plus from overseas
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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
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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
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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
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Essential Others – Local
Organizing Committee
Jun AdachiKoji Eguchi
Takehisa Fujita
Hironobu Gotoda
Ichiro Ide
Noriko Kando
Keizo Oyama
Takayuki Saito
Shigeo Sugimoto
Secretariat
Yuko Miyamtoto
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Urara Numata
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Thanks also to NII’s
DC-2001 Partners:
Japanese Science and Technology Corporation
University of Library and Information Science
(Tsukuba)
Communications Research Laboratory
National Diet Library
DCMI
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Thanks also to:
NII,
OCLC,
and
Coalition for Network Information (CNI)
who donated funds to support travel
stipends
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And, of course…
• Participants and their institutions, who
have invested time, and treasure, and
intellect in the expectation that we can
achieve common goals
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Why are we here?
• To advance the cause of global resource
discovery infrastructure on behalf of our
various constituents
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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
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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
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DCMI Organizational Structure
Board of Trustees
Executive Director
Directorate
Managing Director
Usage
Board
DCMI
Subscribers
Standards
Development
WGs
Infrastructure
WGs
User Support and
Education
WGs
Liaison
Advisory
Board
DCMI
Activity
Areas
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
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The Role of the Workshop
• Community building
• Bring participants together for face-toface discussions of outstanding issues
• Identify the needs of the community
• Formulate a workplan for the coming
year
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Makx Dekkers
• Managing Director, DCMI
• A review of the DCMI 2001 Workplan
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