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Makx Dekkers/2010-03-29
After the DC-2009 conference, held in Seoul, Korea on 12-16 October 2009, the conference papers were published in the DCMI Conference Paper Repository. The presentations are available for download from the programme page at the conference Web site.
In January 2010, the slides from a Dublin Core Tutorial held in Florence, Italy on 17 December 2009 were published on the Metadata Training Resources page on the DCMI Web site.
Following the DCMI Advisory Board meeting on 16 October 2009 in Seoul, two Task Groups were deactivated: the DCMI Agents Task Group and the DCMI Government Application Profile Task Group. Talat Chaudhri of UKOLN was appointed co-moderator of the DCMI Scholarly Communications Community.
In December 2009, a new Task Group was set up: the DCMI/NKOS Task Group. This Task Group targets to develop a Dublin Core Application Profile for KOS (Knowledge Organization Systems) resources based on the work of the NKOS group and is led by Marcia Zeng of the School of Information and Library Science at Kent State University, and Gail Hodge of Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa).
In March 2010, Andrew Wilson of the Australian National Data Service was appointed co-moderator of the DCMI Preservation Community, while Sarah Hartmann of the German National Library replaced Christine Frodl as co-moderator of the DCMI Libraries Community, and Muriel Foulonneau of Centre Henri Tudor in Luxembourg took over from Ann Apps as moderator of the DCMI Collection Description Community.
In the DCMI Architecture Forum, Pete Johnston has made some maintenance corrections (with errata notes) to the current version of the DC-HTML specification. In response to a feedback request from the W3C HTML Working Group, the chairs of the Forum (Tom Baker and Mikael Nilsson), together with the authors of DCMI's HTML-related syntax specifications (Pete Johnston and Andy Powell), have drafted technical comments on draft specifications for HTML5.
The Forum has proposed that a copy of the source code for DCMI's Vocabulary Management Tool scripts — which have been reliably used for seven years to periodically update, in parallel, the Web page and RDF schemas for DCMI Metadata Terms — be made available in a public open-source server and adapted to embed the RDF representation of the vocabulary in the key Web page for the metadata terms using RDFa attributes.
The Architecture Forum has also begun to consider a revision of the DCMI Abstract Model that would incorporate the DC-RDF guidelines. As envisioned, the revised Abstract Model would replace some DCMI-specific terminology in favor of referencing RDF, which thanks to the Linked Data movement is now more widely understood. It would also include diagrams that are more accessible to non-experts and contextual information about the rationale and role of the DCMI Abstract Model.
The Task Group is currently focusing on revising the Dublin Core Collection Application Profile in compliance with the DCMI Abstract Model. A first issue is planned for June 2010, with help from Pete Johnston. This will be forwarded to the Task Group.
There has been a fairly robust discussion going on about the model for the Application Profile on the DC-Education mailing list. The conversation is moving towards properties, with the objective to get a version 1 of the Application Profile out. In early January 2010, a list of suggested properties was posted on the Wiki with notes and cross-references to use cases.
The Task Group leaders Mary Woodley and Tom Baker are starting the revision of the Glossary. Once the structure has been decided, a general call will be sent out to DC-General asking for suggestions of vocabulary terms that should have a succinct definition with a link to the supporting documentation. Some extraneous entries will be removed since they are not specific to Dublin Core metadata. The most current glossary should be ready for review by May/June 2010.
Meeting by teleconference approximately once a month, the Kernel Metadata Task Group has been focusing on software that demonstrates interoperation via automatic conversion among various representations of DCMI Kernel metadata — XML, RDF/Turtle, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), and ANVL (A Name-Value Language, similar to email headers). Notes and documents related to the task group are linked from the Kernel wiki. Support for Kernel/ERC metadata will also be available in the upcoming 2.2 release of the XTF (eXtensible Text Framework) indexing and search system.
Following an open-source "alpha" release in September 2009, the conversion software continues to evolve as a package consisting of a command line tool and an underlying Perl library. This package will again be freely available from the cpan.org software repository and referenced by appropriate pages on the DCMI website. The software is structured in three parts: (1) an ANVL module for reading and writing records in the ANVL syntax, (2) an ERC module that encapsulates the Kernel vocabulary, and (3) an Output Multiplexer (OM) module that can output an internally stored record in a variety of syntaxes. Among other things, this will provide a strong mapping from ERC/ANVL to ERC/RDF, which is required for conforming to the Semantic Web conventions and the DCMI Abstract Model. Also included are the beginnings of a reverse mapping method from ERC/RDF to ERC/ANVL.
Established in December 2009, the DCMI-NKOS Task Group targets to develop a Dublin Core Application Profile for KOS resources based on the work the NKOS group members have already done during the last decade. A Task Group wiki has been set up in order for the invited experts to contribute collaboratively.
The DCMI-NKOS Task Group is working on two major areas simultaneously. The first area is the development of a simple entity-relationship model on which the Application Profile can be based. This requires a review of current research results derived from various projects of both the NKOS group members and other Application Profile task groups of DCMI, e.g., the Scholarly Works Application Profile. A preliminary analysis of a functional requirements specification that outlines the kinds of functionality for the KOS Resources Application Profile was conducted and a draft model is been discussed. The second area is the development of a KOS Type vocabulary. It will include various types of KOS, defined based on characteristics such as structure and complexity, the relationships between concepts, and historical functions. Members of the Task Group have compared various previous typologies. Related papers from three members were presented at the recent international conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization held in February 2010 in Rome, Italy.
The DCMI RDA Task Group has continued to be busy finalizing the registration of the RDA Element sets and vocabularies. The completion date has been postponed to the first half of 2010 following the rescheduled release date of June 2010 for RDA, to be called the RDA Toolkit. The Task Group is currently discussing the generalization of RDA elements for use by the wider community.
"RDA vocabularies: process, outcome, use" by Diane Hillmann, Karen Coyle, Jon Phipps, and Gordon Dunsire was published in D-Lib Magazine vol.16 no.1/2 (January/February 2010). It describes some of the challenges encountered in the registration work and the solutions adopted.
Jon Phipps, Karen Coyle and Diane Hillmann gave a presentation on application profiles to the ALCTS (Association for Library Collections & Technical Services) Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) on January 18, 2010 during its Midwinter Meeting. The presentation used the Task Group work to illustrate various points.
Diane Hillmann continues to represent DCMI on the advisory board of the Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF) project. The first versions of the VMF matrix were released in November 2009. The matrix is a tool for automatically computing best-fit mappings between bibliographic metadata elements, and consists of RDF triples in the TTL format representing around 2,500 role and 11,500 relator concepts, with over 800 terms mapped from third-party vocabularies including RDA and Dublin Core. The matrix and further information about VMF are available here. Gordon Dunsire is a member of the core project team.
The Task Group continues to liaise with the the FRBR Review Group which maintains the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) models. The Review Group is discussing a draft registration of the entity-relationship model of FRBR.
Work has started on the registration of the FRAD model. The Task Group will discuss mapping the FRBR and FRAD elements used by RDA, and registered as part of the RDA element sets, with the FRBR and FRAD element sets when their registration is finalized.
The goal of the DCMI Translation Task Group is to ensure quality in the translation of Dublin Core terms for languages other than English and to do this by establishing guidelines and best practice to assist translators.
The work plan has been updated to include discussion from the Translation Task Group meeting held at DC-2010 in Seoul, October 2009 (see report). The Task Group will over 2009-2011 develop guidelines for those wishing to translate DCMI documentation to other languages.
It is planned that the translation guidelines will be developed as a document with seven sections:
The DCMI Oversight Committee met in Seoul on 12 October 2009. The first part of the meeting was the formal Annual General Meeting as required by the Singapore Companies Act where the Members of DCMI formally agreed the annual accounts. Following that, the Committee discussed administrative, financial and strategic issues related to the budget and activities in the financial year 2009-2010 and beyond.
The Oversight Committee continues to have regular conference calls.
A number of new members have been appointed to the DCMI Advisory Board. Talat Chaudhri of UKOLN joined in his role of co-moderator of the DCMI Scholarly Communications Community; Marcia Zeng of the School of Information and Library Science at Kent State University and Gail Hodge of Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa) joined as co-leaders of the new DCMI/NKOS Task Group; Sarah Hartmann of the German National Library joined as co-moderator of the DCMI Libraries Community. Finally, Paul Walk, deputy director of UKOLN, joined the Advisory Board in March 2010. Sarah Rice of Deneb Consulting, former chair of the DCMI Corporate Circle, and Sarah Shreeves of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, former co-leader of the DCMI Collection Description Application Profile Task Group have stepped down from the Advisory Board at their own request.
The Advisory Board now consists of 53 experts from 17 countries: Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Singapore, the UK and the US.
The DCMI Usage Board is following up on actions taken during its most recent face-to-face meeting (see report) in Seoul on 16 October 2009. The Board will shortly consider a formal decision document detailing the changes to DCMI Metadata Terms decided in Seoul, which are being incorporated into a major new update of the Web pages and RDF schemas. In agreement with the maintainers of the FOAF vocabulary, the Usage Board will reciprocate the FOAF assertion that the foaf:maker property is equivalent to dcterms:creator, setting a high-profile precedent for the assertion of formal alignments between major vocabularies.
A review of the legacy DCMI Glossary in Seoul has led to the proposal for a Task Group for the Revision of the DCMI Glossary chaired by Mary Woodley and Tom Baker. A Usage Board review of the vastly outdated DCMI FAQ has led to a Task Group for the Revision of the DCMI FAQ. Tom Baker will assist Stefanie Rühle on a major revision of the popular primer, "Using Dublin Core".
The Usage Board is reassessing priorities among its current mix of activities, which range from the routine maintenance of DCMI metadata terms to the technical review of application profiles, approval of new metadata terms, and increasingly the review of user-oriented guidance materials about basic issues of metadata usage and emerging best practice.
After more than six years of service, Andrew Wilson has stepped down from the Usage Board, leaving six active members: Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston, Tom Baker (chair), Akira Miyazawa, Stefanie Rühle, and Joe Tennis.
In January 2010, A new DCMI Partnership level was introduced: the Supporter level. This level provides a lower threshold for organizations willing to contribute financially to DCMI. The Metadata Research Center, School of Library and Information Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first DCMI Supporter as of 1 January 2010.
The Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, a DCMI Gold Partner in 2008-2009, became a Local Tutorial Partner under the DCMI Partnership Program in October 2009. The Fondazione, in cooperation with DCMI, organized a Dublin Core Tutorial on 17 December 2009 in Florence under the title "Dublin Core: building blocks for interoperability".
The DCMI Partnership Program is open for all companies and organizations that want to support DCMI financially to continue its work to the benefit of the global audience. Please see the Platinum Partner page for more details.
DC-2009, the ninth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, was hosted by the National Library of Korea in cooperation with the Korean Library Association at the National Digital Library in Seoul, Korea, from 12 through 16 October 2009. The total attendance of around 100 participants was lower than usual but participants agreed that the papers and workshop sessions were of high quality. The papers are available at the DCMI Conference Paper Repository and presentations can be downloaded from the Conference Web site.
DC-2010 will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, from 20-22 October 2010 in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) which is scheduled for 24-27 October 2010 at the same location.
The Conference Committee for DC-2010 is comprised of the chairs and co-chairs of the Program (Diane Hillmann and Mike Lauruhn), Tutorial (Marcia Zeng), and Workshop (Liddy Nevile) committees, Makx Dekkers representing the Executive and Stuart Sutton chairing the Committee. The Committee has assumed responsibilities customarily performed by the conference host organization including setting the conference theme and logistical planning.
Conference planning is on schedule. The call for participation has been widely distributed with an initial submission deadline of 2 April 2010 which was extended to 9 April 2010.
The Committee is currently working on the following issues:
Over the last six months (September 2009 through February 2010) we have seen an increase of around 4% in visits to the Web site (now 34,500 per month) and page views (now 91,000) compared to the same period a year ago. The number of unique visitors per month increased from an average of 25,500 in February 2009 to 27,000 in February 2010. Main traffic sources are search engines (46%), referring sites (29%) and direct traffic (25%).
The most accessed documents on the DCMI Web site are: the Metadata Basics overview page, the DCMI Metadata Terms, the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, version 1.1, the Specifications overview page, and Using Dublin Core.
The DublinCore Twitter account now has 966 followers which is a 50% increase since the beginning of the year 2010.
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