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| Monday, November 2 | |||
| 08:30 | 09:00 | Registration, Coffee, and Pastries | |
| 09:00 | 09:10 | Welcome to the Library of Congress | Rebecca Guenther |
| 09:10 | 09:45 |
I. Introduction to dc:DC An Introduction to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the process supporting the evolution of the standard, and the procedures and goals for the dc:DC workshop in particular. |
Stuart Weibel |
| 09:45 | 10:00 |
II. Summary of Projects A summary of selected DC Projects and some general lessons learned, followed by 15 minute case studies from the field. |
Gail Clement & John Perkins |
| 10:00 | 10:15 | CIMI Interoperability Testbed | John Perkins, Canada |
| 10:15 | 10:30 | Australian Government Information Locator Service | Renato Iannella, Distributed Systems Technology Centre |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | Gateway for Educational Materials (GEM) | Nancy Morgan, USA |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | Goettingen Library Metadata | Ralf Schimmer, Germany |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | DONOR | Titia van der Werf, Netherlands |
| 11:45 | 12:00 | Netscape's Site Preview Format | Eric Miller, USA |
| 12:00 | 12:30 |
Plenary Discussion of Case Studies Open plenary discussion of DC projects, lessons learned, and problems identified from implementation |
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| 12:30 | 14:00 | Lunch | Remarks by Winston Tabb, Library of Congress |
| 14:00 | 15:30 |
III. RDF and the Dublin Core Data Model |
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The Resource Description Framework: An Infrastructure for Metadata on the Web The goal of this session is to introduce RDF (the Resource Description Format), and provide sufficient background for a common understanding of the syntactic infrastructure RDF provides for the implementation of metadata in general, and Dublin Core metadata in particular, on the Web. |
Ralph Swick | ||
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The Dublin Core Data Model: A Foundation for Interoperability for Dublin Core with Qualifiers The goal of this session is to report on the ongoing activities of the DC Data Model Working Group and how these activities support the encoding of Dublin Core metadata in RDF. |
Eric Miller | ||
| General Discussion and Question and Answer Period on RDF and the DC Data Model | |||
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 | 17:30 |
IV. Breakout Groups The goal of these Breakout groups is to discuss the implications of RDF and the DC data model for each of the clusters of elements identified below and identify problems or work items necessary to provide implementation guidance. Breakout groups will each have a chair and a recorder. |
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| 1. Creator, Contributor, Publisher | Chair: David Bearman | ||
| 2. Source, Relation, Identifier | Report by Erik Jul | ||
| 3. Format and Type | Chair: Simon Cox | ||
| 4. Coverage, Date, and Language | Chair: Eric Miller | ||
| 5. Title, Subject and Description | Chair: Diane Hillmann | ||
| 6. Rights | Chair: Carl Lagoze | ||
| 19:00 |
Dinner at The Library of Congress Working Group Chairs are encouraged to assemble Informal meetings at and following dinner. Breakout Group leaders should have report on breakout groups to conference chair by close-of-bar. |
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| Tuesday, November 3 | |||
| 08:30 | 09:00 | Coffee and Pastries | |
| 09:00 | 10:30 |
V. Plenary: Breakout Group Reports and Discussion Recorders from Monday afternoon breakout groups will report and entertain brief questions (10 minutes each), followed by general plenary discussion. |
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| 10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | 12:30 |
VI. Reports and Proposals The following reports will provide information on the status of activities of broad interest to the DC community: |
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| 1. Z39.50 | Ralph LeVan | ||
| 2. User Guides | Diane Hillmann | ||
| 3. Multilinguality | Tom Baker | ||
| 4. The Agent Proposal | David Bearman | ||
| 5. Data Definitions | Godfrey Rust | ||
| 12:30 | 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | 15:30 |
VII. Breakout Groups The following breakout groups are intended to serve as special interest BOFs and preliminary working groups. The topics may be changed or tailored to reflect issues which rise to prominence during the course of the workshop. |
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| 1. Searching Issues | Chair: Ray Denenberg | ||
| 2. Standardization | Chair: Priscilla Caplan | ||
| 3. Collaborative Research
Opportunities There are many national funding projects for digital library initiatives. This Breakout group will provide the opportunity for researchers to discuss possible collaborations and funding opportunities on an international basis. |
Chair: Carl Lagoze | ||
| 4. Requirements for DC V2.0 | Chair: Ron Daniels | ||
| 5. Implementation and Testbed Issues | Chair: John Perkins | ||
| 6. DC Citation Scheme The DC community needs a standard scheme for encoding citation information. This breakout group begin work on identifying the scope and functional requirements for such a scheme. |
Chair: Cliff Morgan | ||
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Afternoon Break | |
| 16:00 | 17:30 |
VIII. Breakout Group Reports Recorders from Tuesday afternoon breakout groups will report and entertain brief questions (10 minutes each), followed by general plenary discussion. |
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| 19:00 |
Dinner at The Smithsonian Institution Working Group Chairs are encouraged to assemble Informal meetings at and following dinner |
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| Wednesday, November 4 | |||
| 08:30 | 09:00 | Coffee and Pastries (and sign-up for BOFs and Breakout Group Meetings) | |
| 09:00 | 10:30 |
IX. Breakout Groups Breakout groups will organize around major work areas identified in Session VIII breakout group reports. These sessions are intended to promote the formation of DC Working Groups and special interest groups, and preliminary agendas for these working groups. |
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| 1. 1 to 1 Reconsidered | Erik Jul | ||
| 2. TBD | |||
| 3. TBD | |||
| 4. TBD | |||
| 5. TBD | |||
| 6. TBD | |||
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | 12:15 |
X. Plenary Discussion of Working Groups necessary to advance the DC work agenda. Plenary discussion of preliminary working group meetings to integrate the post DC-6 work plan. |
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| 12:15 | 12:30 | Closing Remarks | |
| 12:30 | (Participants are on their own for this lunch) | ||
| 14:00 | Meeting space will be available Wednesday afternoon for a limited number of groups to meet if there is interest in doing so. | ||