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CNI/OCLC Metadata Workshop

Workshop on Metadata for Networked Images

September 24-25, 1996
Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Dublin, Ohio, USA

Overview

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and OCLC are organizing an invitational workshop in Dublin, Ohio on September 24 and 25 to promote convergence among alternative approaches to describing images and imagebases in networked environments. This workshop will build upon the outcomes of a workshop that OCLC organized last fall to address the general issue of metadata in networked environments. It will address the metadata requirements of networked images and imagebases by refining and extending the "Dublin core" of metadata elements that resulted from that previous workshop.

Digital images ranging from paintings and buildings to CAT scans and x-rays to planetary landscapes and astronomical objects are now available in great numbers on the Internet, and more such images are becoming available every day. Widely accepted and used standards for describing these images and their associated imagebases are urgently needed to facilitate the planning of image creation and conversion projects and to enable the discovery of existing images that can be used in research, teaching, and learning activities. This workshop will bring together a critical mass of experts who are working in this area so that they can share information on their respective efforts and clear the ground on which image and imagebase metadata standards will be built.

The workshop will focus on still images, such as photographs, slides, and graphics. It will not deal with moving images, such as films, videos, and simulations, nor will it deal with images of textual objects, such as page facsimiles. It will, however, capture
the requirements of the wide range of disciplines (e.g. art, architecture, engineering, medicine, and the life, physical, and social sciences) that create and use images and imagebases, and it will identify the requirements that are common to all disciplines
versus those that are unique to individual disciplines.

Process

If you are interested in participating in this workshop then please contact the person identified below on or before June 15, 1996 (a) to declare your interest in participating, (b) to describe your experience to-date with creating or using digital images or imagebases in networked environments, and, (c) to suggest key issues or topics that should be addressed by the workshop, together with your views on those issues and topics.

If you know of a project or a person that you believe should be represented at or invited to this workshop then please (a) forward this call for statements of interest and experience as soon as possible to a representative of the project or to the person you have in mind, or (b) contact the person identified below as soon as possible with the title of the project or the name of the person you have in mind together with a brief description of the reason why you think a representative of that project or that person should participate.

CNI and OCLC are particularly interested in receiving statements from and nominations of faculty members, researchers, and other "content" originators and users so that the workshop might benefit from their participation as well as that of archivists, librarians, information technologists, and other professional developers and managers of information infrastructures, resources, and services.

There will be no registration fee for this workshop. CNI and OCLC will take responsibility for all staff, speaker, materials, facility, and food expenses arising from this workshop. The workshop participants will be responsible for their individual travel and housing expenses.

Contact Information

Please direct questions, statements of interest and experience, and nominations to:

Paul Evan Peters
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
21 Dupont Circle
Washington, DC 20036
202-296-5098
202-872-0884 fax
paul@cni.org
<URL:http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html>

Additional Information

CNI, a joint project of the Association for Research Libraries, CAUSE, and Educom, was founded in March, 1990 to promote the creation of and access to information resources in networked environments in order to enrich scholarship and to enhance intellectual productivity.

OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a non-profit computer library service and research organization whose computer network and services link more that 22,000 libraries in 63 countries and territories. Additional information about OCLC and its services can be found at <URL:http://www.oclc.org>

Currently 212 organizations and institutions, including OCLC, belong to the CNI Task Force, a group that makes special contributions to the Coalition's projects and activities. Included in the Task Force membership are higher education institutions,
publishers, network service providers, computer hardware and system companies, library networks and organizations, and public and state libraries.

Periodically CNI issues a call for statements of interest and experience as a vehicle for announcing initiatives in a manner that promotes the widest and fairest possible identification of institutions, organizations, and individuals willing and able to contribute to those initiatives. Each call provides a brief description of the initiative in question, and some calls include supporting documents.

Individuals do not have to be affiliated with or employed by a member of the CNI Task Force, or of ARL, CAUSE, or Educom, to respond to a call for statements of interest and experience.

Statements of interest and experience are reviewed by CNI staff with the assistance of the leaders of relevant CNI Working Groups and the guidance of members of the CNI Steering Committee. Other parties are involved as needed. Additional information is sometimes requested during this review process.

Reviews of statements of interest and experience are carried out in as expeditious and as flexible a fashion as possible, taking care to balance the benefits of a wide and fair search for individuals able and willing to contribute to particular initiatives with the
benefits of focused and timely action on those initiatives.

Upon selection of the individuals to participate in a given initiative, CNI staff notify all those who submitted a response to the call of their status.

Additional information about CNI and its program can be obtained from the person identified above and from the following Internet servers:

<URL:ftp://ftp.cni.org/>
<URL:gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/>
<URL:http://www.cni.org/CNI.homepage.html>

Interested parties are encouraged to stay in touch with CNI and its program by subscribing to its Internet news distribution service by sending the following, single-line message to listproc@cni.org.

subscribe cni-announce.