Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

UKOLN activities

UKOLN has been involved in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative since the DC-2: OCLC/UKOLN Metadata Workshop at Warwick University in 1996. UKOLN staff have contributed since then to the ongoing development of the Dublin Core by authoring recommendations, proposals and background papers; by developing software tools; by chairing working groups and participating in workshops and conferences; and by many hours of discussion and e-mail debate on the finer issues of metadata.

In the process we have made many contacts internationally and built up links and partnerships with like minded people and organisations in the 'metadata world'.

In 2004, the UK joined the DCMI Affiliate Programme, becoming the second DCMI affiliate. The MLA and JISC are funding the UK's role in the Programme, with UKOLN acting as a "managing agent". The Affiliate Programme will provide a stronger link between local communities of practice and the DCMI. As part of this agreement UKOLN will be continuing its work supporting the DCMI both by provision of authoritative documentation and promotion of interoperability based on deployment of Dublin Core.

DC-2006 (Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico) [Site]

The DC-2006 conference will take place in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, from Tuesday 3 October - Friday 6 October 2006.

DC-2005 (Madrid, Spain) [Site]

Tutorials

Andy Powell, Encoding DC in (X)HTML, XML and RDF.
  Presentation: [Powerpoint]

Rachel Heery, Dublin Core Application Profiles.
  Presentation: [Powerpoint]

Special Sessions

Traugott Koch co-chaired a Special Session Enhancing the Understanding of Meaning: Practical Applications of Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS)
  Presentations available from: [HTML]

Working Group Meetings

Andy Powell chaired a meeting of the DCMI Architecture WG.
  Presentation, Andy Powell (Introduction, namespace policy, XML guidelines, workplan for next year: [Powerpoint]
  Presentation, Pete Johnston (DC XML Binding): [Paper] [Powerpoint] [HTML]

Rachel Heery chaired a meeting of the DCMI Registry WG.
  Presentation: [Powerpoint] [Powerpoint]

Pete Johnston chaired a meeting of the DCMI Collection Description WG.
  Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]

Pete Johnston also gave a presentation on XML Schema to a meeting of the DCMI Libraries WG.
  Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]

DC-2004 (Shanghai, China) [Site]

Tutorials

Andy Powell, Encoding DC in (X)HTML, XML and RDF.
  Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]

Pete Johnston (contributor, with Thomas Baker and Robina Clayphan), Creating an Application Profile.
  (Part 3): The Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile.
  Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]

Special Sessions

Pete Johnston (contributor, with Juha Hakala), Collection & Service Description and the NISO Metasearch Initiative.
  Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]

Working Group Meetings

Andy Powell chaired a meeting of the DCMI Architecture WG.
  Presentation, Andy Powell (Introduction, Abstract Model, RDF Issues, report): [Powerpoint] [HTML]
  Presentation, Pete Johnston (XML Schema): [Powerpoint] [HTML]
  Presentation, Tom Baker (Identifiers for Historical Versions of Metadata Terms): [Powerpoint]

Pete Johnston chaired a meeting of the DCMI Collection Description WG.
  Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]

DC-2003 (Seattle, Washington, USA) [Site]

Papers

Michael Day. "Integrating metadata schema registries with digital preservation systems to support interoperability: a proposal",
  Full text (PDF): <http://purl.org/dc2003/03day.pdf>
  Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]

Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston, Andras Micsik & Csaba Fülöp. "Metadata schema registries in the partially Semantic Web: The CORES experience",
  Full text (PDF): < http://purl.org/dc2003/03heery.pdf>
  Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]

Nicholaos Mourkoussis, Martin White, Manjula Patel, Jacek Chmielewski, Krzysztof Walczak. "AMS: metadata for cultural exhibitions using virtual reality",
  Full text (PDF): <http://purl.org/dc2003/03mourkoussis.pdf>

Tutorials

Andy Powell, Encoding DC in (X)HTML and XML.

Rebecca Guenther, Rachel Heery, Andrew Wilson, Dublin Core Application Profiles.
  Rachel Heery's Presentation: [Powerpoint] [HTML]

DC-2002 (Florence, Italy) [Site]

Papers

Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston, Dave Beckett & Damian Steer. "The MEG Registry and SCART: complementary tools for creation, discovery and re-use of metadata schemas",
  PDF: <http://www.bncf.net/dc2002/program/ft/paper14.pdf>

DC-2001 (Tokyo, Japan) [Site]

Papers

Thomas Baker, Makx Dekkers, Rachel Heery, Manjula Patel, & Gauri Salokhe. "What Terms Does Your Metadata Use? Application Profiles as Machine-Understandable Narratives", Journal of Digital Information Vol 2 No 2 (Nov 2001)
  PDF: <http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Baker/baker-final.pdf>

Tutorials

Rachel Heery & Andy Powell, Namespaces, Schemas and Application Profiles
  HTML: <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/presentations/dc9-app-prof-tut/>

Working Groups

• DCMI Architecture WG - Andy Powell, Chair
• DCMI Collection Description WG - Pete Johnston, Chair
• DCMI Registry WG - Rachel Heery, Co-chair
• DC Library Application Profile Task group - Ann Chapman, Member

Committees

• DCMI Advisory Board - Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston, Andy Powell
• DCMI Usage Board - Andy Powell

Documents

• Andy Powell. Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in HTML/XHTML meta and link elements. DCMI Recommendation.
• Andy Powell, Pete Johnston. Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML. DCMI Recommendation.
• Andy Powell, Harry Wagner (Editors). Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. DCMI Recommendation.
• Andy Powell. Mikael Nilsson, Ambjörn Naeve, Pete Johnston DCMI Abstract Model. DCMI Recommendation.

• DC Collection Description Application Profile. Draft DCAP.
  (Pete Johnston, Andy Powell and Ann Chapman, contributors)
• DC Library Application Profile. Draft DCAP.
  (Ann Chapman, contributor)

• Pete Johnston. Element Refinement in Dublin Core Metadata. DCMI Recommended Resource.