DC-2003 / 28 September - 2 October 2003 / Seattle, Washington USA
2003 Dublin Core Conference: Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice--Metadata Research and Application
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The DC-2003 Tutorial Track offers conference participants an exciting array of instructional opportunities ranging from the principles and practices of application profile construction to the use of faceted LCSH subject headings in the Web environment. You can register for DC-2003 Tutorials using the online Conference Registration Form and in person at the Conference (available space permitting).

Tutorial 1: Encoding DC in (X)HTML and XML

Monday, 29 September 2003
8:30-10:00, Bay Auditorium

Presenter: Andy Powell

This tutorial will present a generic model for 'simple' and 'qualified' Dublin Core metadata records and will investigate how that model can be encoded in (X)HTML 'meta' tags, XML and RDF. A number of case studies, based on the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and RSS, will show how XML and DC are being used in practice.

No detailed prior knowledge of XML will be assumed but attendees should expect to see a significant number of angle brackets (< >) during the tutorial!

Tutorial 2: Dublin Core Application Profiles

Tuesday, 30 September 2003
8:30-10:00, Bay Auditorium

Presenters: Rebecca Guenther, Rachel Heery, Andrew Wilson

A Dublin Core Application Profile (DCAP) documents how an information provider or user community has adapted, constrained or extended Dublin Core for specific uses or applications. DCAPs serve a range of purposes, from describing a particular set of metadata records to providing a focus for user communities to develop shared information models. This tutorial will present the principles, format conventions and modeling issues involved in constructing DCAPs with reference to actual profiles for libraries and for government information.

Tutorial 3: Creative Commons - Digital Rights Description

Wednesday, 1 October 2003
8:30-10:00, Bay Auditorium

Presenter: Mike Linksvayer

Creative Commons offers a legal, pragmatic alternative to "all rights reserved" copyright and Digital Rights Management -- a suite of "some rights reserved" licenses backed by RDF/XML metadata, for Digital Rights Description (DRD). This tutorial will cover practical and technical aspects of creating, publishing, verifying and searching Dublin Core metadata for DRD deployed on the web in HTML, RSS, and beyond, e.g., on Peer-2-Peer environments.

Tutorial 4: FAST Workshop

Thursday, 2 October 2003
8:30-10:00, Bay Auditorium

Presenter: Ed O'Neill and Eric Childress

The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) schema is by far the most commonly used and widely accepted subject vocabulary for general application. It is the de facto universal controlled vocabulary and has been a model for developing new subject heading systems around the world. However, LCSH's complex syntax and rules for constructing headings restrict its application by requiring highly skilled personnel and limit the effectiveness of automated authority control.

Recent trends, driven to a large extent by the rapid growth of the Web and the popularity of new metadata schemas, such as Dublin Core, are forcing changes in subject indexing systems to make them easier to use, understand, and apply. FAST is a faceted adaptation of LCSH with a simplified syntax which retains the very rich vocabulary of LCSH while making it easier to understand and apply. FAST consists of eight distinct facets: Topical, Geographic (Place), Personal Name, Corporate Name, Form (Type, Genre), Chronological (Time, Period), Title, and Meeting Name.

This workshop will review the development of FAST and look at how it can be applied in the Dublin Core environment.

Tutorial Presenters

Eric Childress.  Eric Childress began his professional library career as an audiovisual materials cataloger. At OCLC since 1996, he works as a metadata products and standards specialist and has been the member of various OCLC projects including: OCLC CORC (Cooperative Online Resource Catalog), OCLC CatExpress, and OCLC Connexion. Currently on loan to OCLC Research, he is a member of the FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) and Metadata Switch Project teams. Active with the Dublin Core, Eric has served as chair of the DC Date Working Group, and member of the DC Library Application Profile Working Group and the DC Advisory Board.

Rebecca Guenther . Rebecca Guenther is Senior Networking and Standards Specialist in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, where she has worked since 1989. Her current responsibilities include work on national and international information technology standards, including ISO and NISO information standards. She serves as rotating chair of ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee on language codes and as a member of the National Information Standards Organization's Standards Development Committee. Rebecca has worked in the area of metadata since the early 1990s, including maintaining a number of crosswalks between various metadata schemes; contributing to the development of XML bibliographic description standards (Metadata Object Description Standard and MARCXML); serving as chair of the DCMI Libraries Working Group and as a member of the DCMI Usage Board; serving as a co-chair of PREMIS, an OCLC/RLG sponsored working group on preservation metadata implementation strategies; and, participating as vice-chair in the Open Ebook Forum's Metadata and Identifiers Working Group, among others.

Rachel Heery. Rachel Heery works for UKOLN as Assistant Director leading the Research and Development team. She has undertaken research over recent years in the field of metadata, resource discovery and information architectures. Rachel has a particular interest in schema registries and application profiles which have been central to the recent SCHEMAS, CORES and MEG registry projects. Rachel has been active in the development of the Dublin Core, co-chairs the DCMI Registry Working Group, and is a member of the Dublin Core Advisory Board.

Mike Linksvayer. Mike Linksvayer is Chief Technology Officer at Creative Commons. A software engineer by practice, he has always found himself responsible for (unconsciously drawn to?) the metadata aspects of applications. He made the leap to metadata-centrism as a cofounder of Bitzi, which provides RDF-encoded DC metadata largely to P2P applications.

Ed O'Neil. Edward T. O'Neill joined the staff at the Office of Research, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, as a Senior Research Scientist in 1983, serving as co-acting Director of Research from 1993 until 1994. Since 1990 he has been Consulting Research Scientist. Dr. O'Neill did his graduate work at Purdue University in Operations Research. He was a faculty member in the School of Information and Library Studies at the University at Buffalo and was later Dean of the Matthew A. Baxter School of Library and Information Science at Case Western Reserve University. His research interests include authority control, subject analysis, database quality, preservation, collection management, bibliographic relationships, and Web characterization.

Andy Powell. Andy Powell has been involved with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative one way or another since 1996–which basically means that he has done his time and should be put out to pasture! He developed the Web-based metadata generator and editor, DC-dot, which has been widely used internationally and the metadata help utility DC-assist. He is a member of the DCMI Advisory Board, the DCMI Usage Board, co-editor of the "DCMI Namespace Policy", co-author of the "Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML" recommendation and author of the "Expressing Qualified Dublin Core in HTML/XHTML meta elements" working draft. Andy is an Assistant Director of UKOLN at the University of Bath, where the bulk of his work is concerned with the specification and deployment of distributed systems architectures supporting resource discovery.

Andrew Wilson. Andrew Wilson is Assistant Director, Preservation, at the National Archives of Australia where he leads a digital records preservation project. He joined the National Archives in 1989 and has worked extensively in the area of metadata, implementing AGLS in Australian Government agencies and drafting the Australian Standard 'AS 5044, the AGLS Metadata Element Set'. Andrew is a member of the DCMI Usage Board and has been co-chair of the DC-Governments Working Group since 2000.

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