DCMI Upcoming Events

» 15 August 2013: DCMI-AsiaPac Regional Workshop, Singapore —RDA, DC and Linked Data (In conjunction with IFA WLIC 2013) (Registration Open)

» 2-6 September 2013: DC-2013, Lisbon, Portugal —(co-located with iPRES)

» 25 September 2013: Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and Low-Resource Conditions (NISO/DCMI Webinar with Johannes Keizer & Caterina Caracciolo, Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO))

» 30 October 2013: Metadata for Public Sector Administration (NISO/DCMI Webinar with Makx Dekkers, Consultant)

» 4 December 2013: Cooperative Authority Control (NISO/DCMI Webinar with Thom Hickey, OCLC)

» 8-11 October 2014: DC-2014, Austin, Texas, USA (Host: Texas Digital Library)

» 1-5 September 2015: DC-2015, São Paulo, Brazil (Host: UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista—São Paulo State University)

The Dublin Core^® Metadata Initiative

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, or "DCMI", is an open organization supporting innovation in metadata design and best practices across the metadata ecology. DCMI's activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, global conferences, meetings and workshops, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and best practices.

DCMI maintains a number of formal and informal liaisons and relationships with standards bodies and other metadata organizations.

DCMI is a project of

ASIS&T Upcoming Events

» 26-28 September 2013: EuroIA 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

» 1-6 November 2013: 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
Montreal, Canada

» 1-2 November 2013: 2013 ICKTM
Montreal, Canada

» 25-30 March, 2014: AI Summit
San Diego, California

» 31 October–4 November 2014: 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington

DC-2013 in Lisbon on 2-6 September 2013 will explore questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. Thus, the maintenance and management of metadata is essential to address the long term availability of information of legal, cultural and economic value. On the web, data—and especially descriptive vocabularies—can change or vanish from one moment to the next. Nonetheless, the web increasingly forms the ecosystem for our vocabularies and our data. DC-2013 will bring together in Lisbon the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing a sustainable metadata ecosystem.

DC-2013 and « iPRES 2013 » are collocated in the same venue and run in parallel. During the collocated events, delegates are welcome to choose sessions from either conference that best fit their interests. Keynotes are held in common plenaries; and, social events are shared, providing a excellent opportunity for DCMI and iPRES delegates to socialize, share common interests and network. Delegates of the two conferences may separately register for a mix of pre- and post-conferences events organized by the conference committees of both iPRES and DCMI.

DCMI Peer Reviewed Program: « http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/program-2013 »
iPRES Peer Reviewed Program: « http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/iPRES-2013_Program.pdf »
Side-by-Side DC-2013 / iPRES-2013 Program: « http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/sideBySide »

Announcements

Karen Coyle and Sam Oh to lead sessions at DCMI-AsiaPac workshop

2013-08-07, The DCMI-AsiaPac workshop titled "RDA, DC and Linked Data" takes place in Singapore on 15 August in conjunction with IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2013. Karen Coyle will lead the morning session of the workshop and will introduce attendees to the basics of Linked Data, including important vocabulary and concepts. Using familiar examples, participants will build some linked data together and will end with a survey of Linked Data projects in the library community. Sam Oh will lead the afternoon session and will examine converting MARC records and other forms of structured data into Linked Data including the processes of mapping existing data elements to RDF properties and classes and linking to sources of Linked Data authorities such as DBPedia for subject headings and people. Additional information on the workshop can be found at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/BibData/ap2013.

NISO/DCMI Webinar: Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and Low-Resource Conditions

2013-08-07, A NISO/DCMI Webinar with Johannes Keizer and Caterina Caracciolo will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time on 25 September 2013 (17:00 UTC - see World Clock: http://bit.ly/18LAQwh). Open data is a crucial prerequisite for inventing and disseminating the innovative practices needed for agricultural development. To be usable, data must not just be open in principle -- i.e., covered by licenses that allow re-use. Data must also be published in a technical form that allows it to be integrated into a wide range of applications. While the webinar focuses on AGRIS, a central and widely-used resource linking agricultural datasets for easy consumption, and AgriDrupal, an adaptation of the popular, open-source content management system Drupal optimized for producing and consuming linked datasets, the issues and approaches addressed are applicable across a broad array of similar open data contexts. This webinar describes the technical solutions adopted by a widely diverse global network of agricultural research institutes for publishing research results. Additional information can be found at http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/developing/. Registration for the webinar closes 25 September 2013 at 12:00PM Eastern (16:00 UTC).

Final Program published for DC-2013

2013-07-17, The Conference Committee of DC-2013 has published the final program of the event. On Monday, 2 September, there will be four half-day Tutorials in parallel tracks with Ivan Herman, Steven Mill, Kai Eckert and Daniel Garijo. The conference on Tuesday through Thursday, 3-5 September, includes three keynotes, paper sessions, project reports, posters, and an array of special sessions. Friday, 6 September is devoted to two full-day workshops: (1) CAMP-4-Data (Cyberinfrastructure and Metadata Protocols); and (2) VocDay 2013 (Managing Vocabularies). You can show your interest at Lanyrd. Twitter stream at @dcmi13, hashtag #dcmi13. Registration is now open. Day registrations are available.

DCMI Technical Updates

RDF representations of Collection Description vocabularies updated

2013-07-17. The RDF representations of the vocabularies created in 2007 to support the Dublin Core Collections Application Profile [1] have been updated. The Accrual Method [2], Accrual Policy [3], and Frequency [4] vocabularies are now declared as SKOS Concept Schemes. These vocabularies (and their PURLs), along with Collection Description Terms [5] and the Collection Description Type vocabulary [6], fall under DCMI's policy for the persistence of formal documents and machine-readable schemas published on the DCMI website [7].

[1] http://dublincore.org/groups/collections/collection-application-profile/
[2] http://purl.org/cld/accmeth/
[3] http://purl.org/cld/accpol/
[4] http://purl.org/cld/freq/
[5] http://purl.org/cld/terms/
[6] http://purl.org/cld/cdtype/
[7] http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/publications/

2013-02-28: Z39.85-2012 maintenance revision published
2012-06-14: DCMI Metadata Terms published with RDFa markup
2012-06-14: DCMI Metadata Terms available in multiple formats via content negotiation

Current DCMI Work Themes

DCMI has a set of "work themes" that focus the Initiative as a whole and change as the metadata ecology evolves. The themes address broad issues in metadata that cut across the more siloed interests of domain-specific Communities and Task Groups within the Initiative. These DCMI-supported work themes receive targeted attention and commitment of resources from DCMI as an organization.

Platform-independent Application Profiles

The DCMI Abstract Model (DCAM), published as a DCMI Recommendation in 2007, provides an abstract syntax for packaging Semantic-Web-compatible data in validatable record formats. DCAM was designed to bridge the modern paradigm of the unbounded Linked Data graph and the more familiar paradigm of the validatable metadata record, locally managed and constrained using a myriad of software platforms and implementation technologies. For five years, DCAM has inspired a wide range of deployment experiences, and the core RDF standards themselves continue to be extended. The activity "platform-independent application profiles" is re-evaluating the need and requirements for a common language to express metadata design patterns, both as templates for Linked-Data-compatible data formats and as reference points for creating and consuming coherent metadata within communities of discourse and practice.

Monitor & participate in this activity:

Meeting Minutes & Work Agenda: Platform-independent Application Profiles activity wiki

Discussion: Architecture Forum mailing list & list archive

Mapping Diverse Vocabularies

While DCMI Metadata Terms and other core vocabularies increase the coherence of metadata by providing shared reference points, the unavoidable proliferation of diverse but overlapping vocabularies threatens to create metadata silos. A key part of the solution is to create machine-readable mappings. The activity "mapping diverse vocabularies" aims at mapping DCMI metadata terms to related terms in other vocabularies. In the absence of well-established practices for publishing and maintaining such mappings, this activity aspires to establish a workflow and publication practices that can be adopted by other vocabulary maintainers. The starting point for this activity is a mapping to the terms defined by the Schema.org initiative.

Monitor & participate in this activity:

Meeting Minutes & Work Agenda: Mapping Diverse Vocabularies activity wiki

Discussion: Architecture Forum mailing list & list archive

Sustainable Vocabularies

As a foundation for applications, the value of any given vocabulary depends on the perceived certainty that the vocabulary—both its machine-readable schemas and human-readable specification documents—will remain reliably accessible over time and that its URIs will not be sold, re-purposed, or simply forgotten. In order to raise awareness of this issue, DCMI has formulated an agreement with the FOAF Project, which is owned by individuals, with contingency plans for transferring maintenance control in the short or long term should exigent circumstances require. This activity examines the issues around vocabulary sustainability and governance with the goal of formulating best practices and, ultimately, of ensuring that our vocabularies will be preserved by society's long-term memory institutions.

Monitor & participate in this activity:

Meeting Minutes & Work Agenda: Vocabulary Management Community wiki

Discussion: Vocabulary Management Community mailing list & list archive

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