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Subject Gateways | Workshops20 September 1999, 9.30 am - 4.30 pm Presenters: Carl Lagoze, Eric Miller, Dan Brickley, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell University of Bristol Cost £55.00
Workshop DescriptionMetadata is 'structured information about resources' that enables users and organizations to describe the resources (documents, images, databases) they publish on the Internet. Metadata also allows creators and others to manage and organize these electronic resources effectively and to build and manage a variety of services around them. The aim of this tutorial is to provide organizations and individuals with background information, practical examples, and information on future developments relevant to the use of metadata for publishing networked information. While the material of the tutorial draws heavily on the experience of the Dublin Core Workshop Series, in which the presenters have been active participants, the information is applicable to other metadata efforts.The first part of the tutorial will provide a general overview of metadata. Topics covered in this area will include:
The second part of the tutorial will focus on the Dublin Core, a simple resource description element set for electronic resources that is intended to be applicable across many disciplines and languages. It is the result of an international consensus-building process involving participants from 16 countries on 4 continents. Topics covered in this area will include:
The third part of the tutorial will summarize the Resource Description Framework (RDF), an infrastructure to support metadata on the Web. RDF provides a general framework for describing relationships between networked resources and defines an XML transfer syntax for sharing those descriptions among applications. Topics covered in this area will include:
The fourth part of the tutorial will expand the description of basic metadata principles to cover the notion of qualification. Experience in the Dublin Core community has shown that there is a demand for increased semantic precision and greater domain specificity in metadata. Topics covered in this area will include:
The fifth and final part of the tutorial will describe recent developments in tools for creating and using metadata. The development of usable tools is vital to the proliferation of the creation and use of metadata. Topics covered in this area include:
Significance of WorkshopThe convergence of the development of XML and RDF and the maturation and standardization of various metadata initiatives such as the Dublin Core makes possible a significant advancement in the usability of the World Wide Web. The association of metadata in its various forms with Web resources will improve resource discovery, make it easier to manage objects, provide the framework for rights management and electronic commerce, and facilitate a number of other capabilities. The challenge now is to educate the Web community about the importance of metadata and, thus, encourage its creation and use. This tutorial provides the foundation for that process.Presenter BiographiesCarl Lagoze is Digital Library Scientist at Cornell University. His main research focus is on federated digital libraries and metadata interoperability. Currently he is the Principal Investigator on a number of digital library projects, including a major grant within the U.S. Digital Libraries Initiative. He has been an active participant in the development of the Dublin Core and is co-author, with Clifford Lynch and Ron Daniel, of the Warwick Framework. He is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Dublin Core Metadata Initative. Eric Miller is a Research Scientist in the Office of Research at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. He is the Co-Chair of the W3C RDF Model and Syntax Working Group, a Member of the W3C RDF Schema and W3C Metadata Coordination Groups and serves on the Directorate of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Dan Brickley is a Senior Technical Researcher at the ILRT, University of Bristol, working on metadata and resource discovery services including the ROADS, DESIRE and HARMONY projects. He represents the University within the World Wide Web Consortium, is an active participant in a number of standards-making activities and is a co-editor of the RDF Schema Specification. Rachel Heery is Co-ordinator of the Research Group at UKOLN, University of Bath. Her research interests include: changes and development in the role of bibliographic databases; development of standards for metadata record formats; interoperability between search services and product development cycle in the Internet environment. At present she is involved with the eLib funded project ROADS, and two EU funded projects, BIBLINK and DESIRE. Andy Powell is Co-ordinator of the Systems and Technical Development Group at UKOLN and focuses on the use of metadata in network resource discovery. He is a member of the Dublin Core Technical Advisory Committee (DC-TAC) and chairs the DC Format Working Group. He is the 'creator' of DC-dot, a Web based tool for generating, editing and reformatting Dublin Core metadata. LocationThe workshop is taking place immediately before the ALT-C 99 Conference being hosted in Bristol. The workshop is being partially sponsored by the DESIRE project and will be held in the University's Merchant Venturers Building. The workshop will take place from 9.30 am - 4.30 pm with breaks for coffee, lunch and tea. The cost per person is £55.00 to include refreshments. |
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