The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Status Report 2001
Makx Dekkers,
Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
mail@makxdekkers.com
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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
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Technical review
DCMI Proposed Recommendation
Public Comment Period
DCMI Recommendation
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Working Groups
• Administrative
Metadata
• Agents
• Architecture
• Citation
• Collection Description
• Education
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Government
Libraries
Registry
Standards
Tools
Type
User Guide
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Other groups
Interest Groups
• Business
• Collaboratory
• Moving Pictures
• Multiple Languages
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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
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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
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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
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