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Makx Dekkers/2010-09-27
The Vocabulary Management Tool which is used to generate the documentation for DCMI Metadata Terms as a Web document and as an RDF schema was published in May 2010 as an open source project on the Web-based hosting service Github.
In August 2010, the slides from the Joint NISO/DCMI Webinar "Dublin Core: The Road from Metadata Formats to Linked Data" held on 25 August 2010 were made available at the Metadata Training Resources page.
In June 2010, a new DCMI Task Group was established on the issue of Metadata Provenance. The group aims to define an application profile that allows for making assertions about description statements or description sets, creating a shared model of the data elements required to describe an aggregation of metadata statements in order to collectively import, access, use and publish facts about the quality, rights, timeliness, data source type, trust situation, etc. of the described statements. The Task Group is led by Kai Eckert of the University of Mannheim and Michael Panzer of OCLC.
The DCMI Architecture Forum is preparing for a DC-2010 session on Friday 22 October 2010 on "Application Profiles for Linked Data: models and requirements". The meeting is being organized jointly with the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group. One key focus of this meeting will be a review of the DCMI Abstract Model and related specifications that is currently being prepared by the DCMI Abstract Model Review Task Group.
This joint meeting will discuss current approaches to application profiles — methods for documenting usage patterns in descriptive metadata to promote the design of compatible metadata applications and maximize the coherence of metadata in a Linked Data environment. By taking a fresh look at requirements in a rapidly evolving environment, the meeting aims at identifying and prioritizing areas where future work may be needed. It is hoped that this meeting will clarify the strengths and weaknesses of the specifications produced by the Architecture Forum and help identify areas in which further work might be undertaken in a DCMI context and areas where the Architecture Forum should instead look to approaches being developed in the wider Web community.
Muriel Foulonneau officially took over Ann Apps for the community moderation since Ann retired.
The Task Group still has to update the Dublin Core Collection Application Profile for compliance withthe DCMI Abstract Model. Pete Johnston had volunteered to provide a first version. This is expected to be completed in 2011.
A joint meeting of the DCMI Education Community and the DCMI Education Application Profile Task Group will take place on 20 October 2010 at DC-2010.
The Glossary Task Groupis working on a revised glossary and FAQ designed to focus on a smaller number of well-chosen concepts that are key to understanding the evolution of metadata discourse in the Dublin Core community from its roots in a set of fifteen descriptive elements to current approaches to interoperability in a Linked Data environment.
The User Guide Task Group has undertaken a revision of the popular guidelines, "Using Dublin Core", in order to bring its explanatory text and examples up-to-date with regard to current usage of DCMI properties and classes.
The two task groups will hold a joint meeting at the upcoming DC-2010 conference on 21 October 2010 to discuss the presentation of key messages in advanced drafts of the glossary, FAQ, and user guide. The meeting will open to all conference-goers and is likely to be of most interest to people ranging from "advanced beginners" (with prior grasp of basic concepts) to "experts" interested in communicating basic concepts to a broad audience. The goal of the meeting will be to critically review the drafts and their key messages in order to determine remaining steps needed to finalize the documents as DCMI Recommended Resources.
The DCMI Government Community did not discuss anything specific in this period. Recently, there have been a number informational mails at the DC-Government mailing list, reflecting the growing interest of the community regarding Open Data activities around the world.
The Kernel Community has been informed of the following developments.
The Kernel Metadata Task Group demonstrated interoperation between RDF and Kernel/ERC metadata with creation of software that can convert from Kernel elements contained in ANVL format (similar to e-mail headers) to RDF/Turtle, as well as JSON and XML. This free-standing open-source package for ANVL/ERC and Kernel metadata was released in May 2010 is now listed in the DCMI Tools page. It is highly portable (Windows, Mac, Linux), passing regression tests on 125 different platforms.
Support for Kernel/ERC metadata is also available as one of the output alternatives in the recent 2.2 release of the XTF (eXtensible Text Framework) indexing and search system. Kernel/ERC metadata will also be available in the deployment this month of two new curation services hosted by the California Digital Library: EZID (Easy Identifiers) and the Merritt repository service. These developments all provide a strong mapping from ERC/ANVL to RDF, which is required for conforming to the Semantic Web conventions and the DCMI Abstract Model. As usual, notes and documents related to the task group are linked from the wiki.
A revision of the Kernel specification in response to software testing was also made available in May 2010. This document and a companion change history are available on the Wiki. Main differences are:
A meeting of the DCMI Knowledge Management Community will take place on 22 October 2010 at DC-2010.
The DCMI Libraries Community has worked on the following issues:
In the next year the following issues will be considered:
The meeting of the Community on 21 October 2010 will discuss the foloowing items:
The Task Group will hold a full-day workshop at DC-2010 on 20 October 2010 to do the reviewing of the DCMI Libraries Application Profile. The agenda of the meeting is:
The objective of the Task Group in the next period is to finalize the Application Profile.
The DCMI Localisation and Internationalisation Community and DCMI Translation Task Group are preparing for a session at DC-2010 on Friday 22 October 2010.
The main objective of the meeting is to progress the work of the DCMI Translation Task Group and discuss the publishing of translated Dublin Core documents so that writers know where and how to make them available locally and internationally.
The Translation Task Group will discuss the current situation and consider requirements for publishing translations of Dublin Core documents locally and internationally to promote findabilty. The Translation Task Group has some case studies to use to develop and test requirements. The outcome of the meeting will be some draft guidelines DC implementors can use when publishing translated DCMI specifications.
This new Task Group is holding regular telconferences. A meeting of the Task Group is sceduled at DC-2010 on Wednesday 20 October 2010. Further information is available at the Task Group's Wiki.
The DCMI-NKOS Task Group has planned a workshop to be held on 21 October 2010 during the DC-2010 conference. Task group members are assigned sub-tasks; they will prepare background information and lead discussions at the workshop. The discussions will be around the first three components required by the DCMI Guidelines for Dublin Core Application Profiles:
A meeting of the DCMI Preservation Community will take place on 20 October 2010 at DC-2010.
A meeting of the DCMI/RDA Task Group will take place on 22 October 2010 at DC-2010.
A meeting of the DCMI Registry Community will take place on 20 October 2010 at DC-2010.
The goals of this Task Group are stated upfront in our charge:
Given the ambitious quality of those goals, it's not surprising that the initial workplan dates have slipped. The most significant work that has been done so far has been the work done by Corey Harper and funded by JISC to survey existing registries and registry users about the specific needs for registries, prior to development of use cases and requirements. Corey provided a preliminary report at the Registries Community York event during the summer of 2009, and is scheduled to report to the DC-2010 meeting about his results. This report will be the impetus for the group's revised work plan.
Sadly, some of the delays have been caused by difficulties in funding experienced by JISC and the group working on the Open Metadata Registry (formerly the NSDL Registry). Some of the funding questions are still concerns, but progress is being made in sorting out those questions.
The Task Group work plan will be an important discussion item at the joint meeting of the DCMI Registry Community and Task Group on 20 October 2010 at DC-2010 in Pittsburgh.
The DCMI Scholarly Communications Community has been relatively quiet over the past year, the mailing list being mainly used for event announcements and occasional updates by the moderators. There has been a recent suggestion from a member that the community could begin to review repository documentation like the DRIVER Guidelines 2.0 (or the forthcoming OpenAIRE guidelines) with the objective of producing recommendations on how digital repositories might be able to achieve higher levels of interoperability, as defined by the Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata. Over the following year, we also hope to find ways to use the community to discuss practical approaches to development and testing of Application Profiles, in the belief that members may find it more useful once substantive events are planned. UKOLN is planning such events over the coming months as part of its work on APs for the JISC, and will seek to align them with the DCMI Scholarly Communications Community.
The moderators are planning a two-hour workshop session on 22 October 2010 at DC-2010. This workshop and its results are expected to contribute to increase the community's activity level.
Leif Andresen the Community Moderator, presented a report about DCMI to the annual meeting in ISO TC46/SC4 in May 2010.
Next year, Leif plans to prepare the next five-year review of the NISO standard due in 2012).
The DCMI Tools Community continued to maintain the liat of Tools and Software. A meeting of the Community will be held on 22 October 2010 at DC-2010 where the plans for future work will be presented.
The DCMI Oversight Committee had several conference calls in March, June and September 2010. The next meeting will take place in Pittsburgh on 19 October 2010.
In June 2010, Kai Eckert of the University of Mannheim and Michael Panzer of OCLC, Task Group leaders of the new DCMI Provenance Task Group, joined the DCMI Advisory Board. Christine Frodl of the German National Library stepped down from the Advisory Board at her own request.
The Advisory Board now consists of 54 experts from 17 countries: Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Singapore, the UK and the US.
The DCMI Usage Board has decided to put the evaluation of application profiles "on hold" pending a review of the DCMI Abstract Model and related specifications which have hitherto formed the basis of the Usage Board's review criteria.
The Usage Board does not plan to meet at DC-2010 in Pittsburgh; rather, members of the Usage Board will participate in meetings of the Glossary and User Guide Task Groups, and in a meeting of the DCMI Architecture Forum at which a review of the DCMI Abstract Model will be discussed.
In preparation for DC-2010, the Usage Board is discussing a concept for the future of the board, which may involve a combination of DCMI Metadata Terms maintenance, the review of basic user guidance material, and (possibly) a reactivation of application profile review with clarified criteria.
The Usage Board chair, Tom Baker, is preparing a major maintenance release of DCMI Metadata Terms reflecting numerous small additions and corrections made over the course of the past year.
Infocom Corporation of Japan renewed its Platinum Partnership status for a third consecutive year until 30 June 2011.
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-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 conference program includes keynotes by Stu Weibel of OCLC Inc. and Mike Bergman of Structured Dynamics LLC, tutorials by Jane Greenberg, Jon Phipps, Karen Coyle and Ron Daniel, Conference Papers, Project Reports, Community and Task Group meetings and Special Sessions.
On 25 August 2010, Tom Baker and Makx Dekkers presented DCMI and its the current work in a Joint NISO/DCMI Webinar "Dublin Core: The Road from Metadata Formats to Linked Data".
Over the last Year (September 2009 through August 2010) we have seen an 4.5% increase in visits to the Web site (now 35,265 per month) and a 2.7% increase in page views (now 88,162) compared to the previous year. The number of absolute unique visitors over the year increased 1.4% to 277,941.
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 1,466 followers which is a 52% increase since the previous report in March 2010.
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