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22 October 2001 Dublin Core Workshop, Tokyo 1
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Makx Dekkers,Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Status Report 2001
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2001 overview
• Operational principles and approval process
• Working structure• Technical activities and results• Organizational aspects• External relations• 2002 priorities
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Operational principles
• Work is done in Working Groups (chair, charter, task list, time plan)
• Identified needs from community• Proposals on basis of consensus• Proposals reviewed by:
– Usage Board if semantics involved– Advisory Committee if otherwise
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Approval process
• Semantic proposals– Public Comment– Usage Board review– DCMI Recommendation
• Technical proposals– Technical review– DCMI Proposed Recommendation– Public Comment Period– DCMI Recommendation
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Working Groups
• Administrative Metadata
• Agents• Architecture• Citation• Collection
Description• Education
• Government• Libraries• Registry• Standards• Tools• Type• User Guide
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Other groups
Interest Groups• Business• Collaboratory• Moving Pictures• Multiple
Languages
Committees• Directorate• Executive
Committee• Advisory
Committee• Usage Board• Web team
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2001 achievements
• Important results (Usage Board Recommendations, Architecture deliverables, Registry prototype, etc.)
• New participants (governments, industry, international organizations) and additional countries involved
• Organizational transition taking shape
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Deliverables
• Usage Guide• DCMI Namespace Policy• RDF/XML specs (simple, qualified DC)• Tools workshop• Prototype Registry• Z39.85 ratified as US National
Standard• Government Extension Proposal
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Work in progress
• Administrative Metadata, Agents, Citation, Type resumed
• Library Application Profile• Further Education extensions• Further Government extensions• Usage Board fully operational with
full agenda
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Sleeping activities
• Working Groups– Collaboratories– Collection Description
• Interest Groups– Business– Moving Pictures
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Organizational transition
• Mandate to Directorate, confirmed by Madeira AC meeting, February 2001
• Managing Director appointed• Usage Board established• Board of Trustees being established• Advisory Board charter presented
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Board of Trustees
• Charter– Give strategic advice, oversee allocation of
resources, help secure support for the DCMI
• Initial members– Michael Crandall, Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation– Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC– Juha Hakala, Helsinki University Library– Neil McLean, Macquarie Univ. & IMS Australia
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Usage Board
• Responsible for orderly development of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
• Operating on explicit principles and criteria
• Chaired by Tom Baker, DE• Nine experts from various backgrounds• First meeting May 2001
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Advisory Board
• Leadership forum (includes WG chairs and other experts)
• Advice on technical and strategic issues and deliverables
• Reviews activities and deliverables in context
• Ambassadors of DCMI and liasons to other communities
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External relations
• NISO Z39.85 ballot - successful• IEEE/LOM MoU and Ottawa meeting in
August 2001- results by end of year• ANZ Regional Center proposed• W3C Tutorial, EU e-Government
activity MIReG, Eur. Environmental Agency, NDLTD (Dissertations), FAO, Adobe
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2002 Initial priorities
• Technical– Domain groups (Edu, Lib, Gov, others?)– Operational registry– Further architecture work
• Organizational– Governance model (Trustees-DIR-UB-AB)– Funding model implementation– Communication and outreach