1000 mile cycle ride for ISKO UK speaker

Andy Powell, one of our speakers at the forthcoming one-day conference Linked Data: The Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web is cycling the length of Britain to raise money for two charities, St Peter's Hospice in Bristol and Book Aid International.

Andy was prompted to undertake the ride after his close colleague at UKOLN in Bath, Rachel Heery, died in July. Rachel, Deputy Director at UKOLN, was well known in the metadata community and contributed immensely not only to UKOLN, but to kindred organizations such as JISC. Tributes to Rachel from her UKOLN and JISC colleagues have been posted on the web.

New Task Group: DCMI Metadata Provenance Task Group established

2010-06-17, A new DCMI Task Group has been established on the issue of Metadata Provenance. The group aims to define an application profile that allows for making assertions about description statements or description sets, creating a shared model of the data elements required to describe an aggregation of metadata statements in order to collectively import, access, use and publish facts about the quality, rights, timeliness, data source type, trust situation, etc. of the described statements. The Task Group is led by Kai Eckert of the University of Mannheim and Michael Panzer of OCLC who have become members of the DCMI Advisory Board.


Reposted from the DC General DCMI discussion list [DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK].

New DCMI Knowledge Management Community

A new Knowledge Management Community has been formed under the auspices of DCMI (the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) to replace the old DCMI Global Corporate Circle. The aim is to apply a "more general focus on Knowledge Management" in place of the old community's charter which was restricted to the application of Dublin Core metadata in corporate environments.

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Dublin Core Deficiency?

This ongoing dialogue on the DC-GENERAL mailing list might be of interest to some.

The plaintiff complains that there is no obvious element in DC which can indicate that a resource is a translation of another resource. Subsequent discussion occurs around possible usage of the isVersionOf / hasVersion refinements of element Relation. During that discussion, it is suggested that 'it may be helpful to look at FRBR'.

The plaintiff responds:

I can scarcely believe that it took the Scholarly Works Application Profile, in 2006, to define a "hasTranslation" property - and even now there's no isTranslationOf to reciprocate. In all these years has no-one needed a hasTranslation property, if hasVersion isn't appropriate?

Hmmm. Does DCMES really not cater for something so basic as translations?

What's your take on this?

Bob

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications

DC-2007: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications “Application Profiles and their Application in Practice” took place from 27 to 31 August 2007 in Singapore.
A report on the conference by Ann Apps is available here.

DCMI has just published the online version of the DC-2007 proceedings.



Papers

• Parallel writing in East Asian languages and its representation in metadata in light of the DCMI Abstract Model (pp. 1-9) by Akira Miyazawa



• Annotation Profiles: Configuring Forms to Edit RDF (pp. 10-21) by Matthias Palmér, Fredrik Enoksson, Mikael Nilsson, Ambjörn Naeve
  
  
• Theory and Practice of Application Profile Development (pp. 43-52) by Jon Mason, Helen Galatis
  
  
• Application Profiles: Exposing and Enforcing Metadata Quality (pp. 52-62) by Diane Ileana Hillmann, Jon Phipps



• Using an Application Profile Based Service Registry (pp. 63-73) by Ann Apps



• Identifying the Identifiers (pp. 74-84) by Douglas Campbell



• Using Metadata Schema Registry as a Core Function to Enhance Usability and Reusability of Metadata Schemas (pp. 85-95) by Mitsuharu Nagamori, Shigeo Sugimoto



• Virtual Archival Exhibition System: An Authoring Tool for Developing Web-based Virtual Exhibitions (pp. 96-105) by Ruan Yang, Chennupati K. Ramaiah, Schubert Foo



• Integrating Dublin Core Metadata for Cultural Heritage Collections Using Ontologies (pp. 128-139) by Constantia Kakali, Irene Lourdi, Thomais Stasinopoulou, Lina Bountouri, Christos Papatheodorou, Martin Doerr, Manolis Gergatsoulis



• Can a System Make Novice Users Experts? Important Factors for Automatic Metadata Generation Systems (pp. 140-150) by Sueyeon Syn, Michael B. Spring

Project Reports

• SCROL Application Profile (pp. 22-29) by Steven Wan Wu, Barbara Reed, Paul Loke



• The DCMI Tools Application Profile (pp. 30-34) by Thomas Severiens, Jane Greenberg


The DRIADE Project: Phased Application Profile Development in Support of Open Science (pp. 35-42) by Jane Greenberg, Sarah Carrier, Jed Dube


• Education.au and Metadata for Events (pp. 106-115) by Pru Mitchell



• Integrating Dublin Core and Learning Object Metadata for Describing Learning Objects for Enhanced Reusability (pp. 116-122) by Abdul Halim Abdul, Abdus Sattar Chaudhy, Christopher S.G. Khoo



• Audience-Centric Taxonomy: Using taxonomies to Support Heterogeneous User Communities (pp. 123-127) by Dave Clarke, Pei Jiun Tan
  

Survey: The use of Dublin Core and MARC

Resoum Kidane (Bibliographic Services, King's College London) conducts a survey concerning the use of Dublin Core (DC) and MARC amongst cataloguers and other information professionals.

The main aim of this research is to obtain a perception from cataloguers and other information professionals, concerning the future trends in cataloguing. As the future of MARC becomes the subject of debate amongst information professionals, there is a possibility that DC will replace MARC for cataloguing both digital and print documents.

Colleagues working with DC or MARC are kindly invited to help by answering the following questionnaire and sending it to rkidane@talk21.com

Presentations on Dublin Core from Metadata and Digital Repository SIG

Sent to CETIS-METADATA mailing list by Neil Fegen.
The most recent meeting (16 May 2007) of the JISC Metadata and Digital Repository SIG focused on Dublin Core work. Most presentation files (slides and audio where available) are available from this page, alongside a summary of each presentation.
Speakers were Pete Johnston (on DC abstract model and DC-LOM mapping), Julie Allinson (on DC application profile for scholarly work), Rosemary Russell (on UK DCMI affiliate work), Sarah Currier (on DC-Ed and Rob Tice (on Becta Vocabulary Management Services).

Pedagogical vocabularies and Dublin Core metadata

A brief update on the activities of Dublin Core - Educational Community.
The DCMI Education Working Group is focusing on developing the DC-Ed Application Profile and vocabularies for this AP - primarily vocabularies for 'learning object type' and 'instructional method'.
To start with they will draw from The JISC-CETIS Pedagogical Vocabularies Review report which already contains a number of relevant vocabularies. These will now be the subject of more detailed scrutiny.

Today, Sarah Currier, the group's moderator, announced their new wiki.