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TUTORIALS:
Monday,
October 14; 09:00 - 10:30
- General Introduction to Dublin Core Metadata
- Location:
- Description:
Dublin Core grammar, 'dumb-down' rule, metadata packages,
one-to-one rule
- By: Thomas Baker
Dr. Thomas H. Baker is Project Leader for Digital Libraries at the
Birlinghoven Library of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Bonn. He holds an
MS in library science from Rutgers University, a PhD in anthropology
from Stanford University, and taught for two years at the Asian
Institute of Technology in Bangkok. As a partner in the EU-funded
projects SCHEMAS (2000-2002) and CORES, activity lead of the
Standardisation Forum of the DELOS Network of Excellence, and
founding head of the Usage Board of the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative, his primary interests are in the development of open
standards for metadata and related registry infrastructures
Tuesday,
October 15; 09:00 - 10:30
- Introduction to Syntax and Encoding: HTML and XML
- Location:
- Description:
Encoding DC metadata in HTML,XML and interaction with
Open Archives Initiative systems
- By: Andy Powell
Andy has been involved with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative one
way or another since 1996 - which basically means that he has done
his time and should be let out on parole! He developed the Web-based
metadata generator and editor, DC-dot, which has been widely used
internationally and the metadata help utility DC-assist. He is a
member of the DCMI Advisory Board, the DCMI Usage Board, co-editor of
the "DCMI Namespace Policy" and co-author of the "Guidelines for
implementing Dublin Core in XML" proposed recommendation. Andy is
an Assistant Director of UKOLN at the University of Bath, where the
bulk of his work is concerned with the specification and deployment
of distributed systems architectures supporting resource discovery.
Wednesday,
October 16; 09:00 - 10:30
- Intermediate Syntax and Encoding: RDF
- Location:
- Description:Encoding DC metadata in RDF
- By: Eric Miller
Eric Miller is the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web
Consortium's Semantic Web Initiative.
Eric's responsibilities include the architectural and technical
leadership in the design and evolution of Semantic Web
infrastructure. Additional responsibilities include building support
among user and vendor communities for the Semantic Web by
illustrating the benefits to those communities and means of
participating in the creation of a metadata-ready Web. And finally
to establish liaisons with other technical standards bodies involved
in Web-related technology to ensure compliance with existing
Semantic Web standards and collect requirements for future W3C work.
Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC
Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Associate Director of
the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Eric holds a Research Scientist appointment at MIT's Laboratory for
Computer Science.
Thursday,
October 17; 09:00 - 10:30
- Application Profiles
- Location:
- Description:
Using metadata in a heterogeneous systems environment
- By: Rachel Heery, Maewyn Cumming
Rachel works for UKOLN at the University of Bath, as Assistant
Director leading the Research and Development team. Rachel has
undertaken research over recent years in the field of metadata,
resource discovery and information architectures. She brings to this
role wide experience of the implementation and development of
information management systems in the commercial and library sectors.
She has a particular interest in schema registries and application
profiles which have been central to the SCHEMAS project, an activity
which is being taken forward within a new European project CORES.
Rachel has been active in the development of the Dublin Core, and
has given presentations at a number of DCMI international workshops
and meetings, she co-chairs the DCMI Registry Working Group, and is
a member of the Dublin Core Advisory Board.
Maewyn Cumming is
Senior Policy Adviser on Interoperability and Metadata at the
Office of the e-Envoy in the UK Cabinet Office. Maewyn is
responsible for developing the e-Government Metadata Standard and
implementation policy. After graduating in Information Science at
the Polytechnic of North London 1990 Maewyn worked mainly in
Government Libraries, first at Department of the Environment, then
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She moved to the Cabinet Office
in 1999, working on the Government's Information Asset Register
before moving to her current position in 2001.
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