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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
DCMI Affiliates: Implications for Institutions
Rosemary RussellUKOLNUniversity of Bath
[email protected]://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
UKOLN is supported by:
14 June 2006UKOLN Open Forum, Bath
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Contents
• What is metadata?• Dublin Core• Use• DCMI• Affiliate plans/feedback
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
What is metadata?Structured data about digital and physical resources that can be used to help support a wide range of operations, e.g.
• resource description and discovery• management of information resources
(including rights management) and their long-term preservation
Variety of metadata formats, eg: • Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) • MARC• Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
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Dublin Core Metadata Element SetAn international standard • Title• Creator• Subject• Description• Publisher• Contributor• Date• Type
• Format• Identifier• Source• Language• Relation• Coverage• Rights
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
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Qualifiers• Qualifiers allow applications to increase the
specificity or precision of the metadata, e.g. ‘date’ element – e.g. date published using a controlled vocabulary, e.g. Dewey
• Introduce complexity use approved DC Qualifiers interoperability
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Dublin Core aims• a simple information resource description format and also:• a basis for semantic interoperability between other more complicated formats (cross-domain resource discovery)
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Dublin Core use• Web pages – most common resource to use DC (usually in HTML meta tags)• also digital archives of physical objects
Originally conceived for author-generated description of Web resources, it has attracted the attention of formal resource description communities such as :• museums, libraries, government agencies, commercial organisations etc
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
DCMI
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models.
Activities include:• working groups• conferences & workshops• standards liaison• educational efforts
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
DCMI Affiliates• provide link between DCMI as a worldwide
activity and the local and regional activities of practitioners
• promote the adoption of Dublin Core specifications
• assure the availability of authoritative documentations and maintain translations of base DCMI standards and documentation
• provide education and training • bring local concerns to the attention of the
larger metadata community
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
DCMI Affiliate: UK• Funded by MLA and JISC• UKOLN is ‘managing agent’
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Planned UK activities…• Survey to gauge use of DC in UK• Workshop (after DC-2006 conference)• Wiki?• Online tutorials…• Liaison with other Affiliates• More ideas?