Calls for Tender

The following calls for tender aim at improving the quality of documentation about Dublin Core metadata. These externally contracted work items will be tracked by the DCMI Director for Specifications and Documentation with the assistance of an ad-hoc review committee consisting of members of the DCMI Advisory Board.

Applications in response to the calls should be submitted in the form of an email message, with relevant Web links, to tbaker@tbaker.de by 31 January. Contractors will complete the assigments on the basis of a work contract to be signed with DCMI.

Dublin Core at 10,000 Feet

Description of work	The contractor will work with materials provided by the Director for Documentation and Specifications and draw on ideas discussed in the DCMI Corporate Circle to produce short texts and Powerpoint slides usable for explaining the rationale and business case for Dublin Core metadata to non-experts and (especially) to institutional and corporate decision makers. These materials should address the role of metadata in an information environment increasingly shaped by Google and related search-engine technologies. The story should cover: What metadata is and what it is used for (e.g. as a basis for managing information throughout its life-cycle, for finding the information with accuracy, and for sorting or filtering the information once found). Why "interoperability" of metadata is important and what it means in a practical sense (e.g., that descriptive information collected from many sources can be merged into a common view). Modularity of the Dublin Core approach (that application profiles combine DCMI terms with terms from elsewhere, as needed, to create implementation-specific metadata on the basis of an underlying model for interoperability).
Expertise needed	The contractor must have both basic technical understanding of metadata in general, of Dublin Core in particular, and experience with writing marketing materials, especially for use in corporate environments.
Deliverables	Deliverables will be a five-page paper ("Dublin Core at 10,000 feet"), a one-page summary of the same ("Dublin Core at 30,000 feet"), and a 20-slide powerpoint presentation making a business case for Dublin Core metadata. First drafts of these materials should be available for review by mid-April.
Start date	1 February 2006
End date	30 June 2006
Estimated person days	20 days at 500 USD per day
Budget	10,000 USD

2006-01-16

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