Shigeo Sugimoto received his BE, ME, and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1977, 1979, and 1985, respectively. Until March 2019, he was a full-time faculty member at the Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba (formerly University of Library and Information Science), Japan. Sugimoto first participated in the 4th Dublin Core Workshop in 1997 and has been closely working with DCMI since then. Currently, he is a member of the Governing Board of DCMI. His research interests include metadata models for digital archives that collect intangible cultural and historical entities, such as intangible cultural heritage, cultural/historical events, and transient and dynamic objects.