The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

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The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Status Report 2001
Makx Dekkers, Managing Director, Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative mail_at_makxdekkers.com
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2001 overview

• Operational principles and approval process
• Working structure
• Technical activities and results
• Organizational aspects
• External relations
• 2002 priorities

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Operational principles

• Work is done in Working Groups (chair, charter,
  task list, time plan)
• Identified needs from community
• Proposals on basis of consensus
• Proposals reviewed by
• Usage Board if semantics involved
• Advisory Committee if otherwise

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Approval process

• Semantic proposals
• Public Comment
• Usage Board review
• DCMI Recommendation
• Technical proposals
• Technical review
• DCMI Proposed Recommendation
• Public Comment Period
• DCMI Recommendation

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Working Groups

• Administrative Metadata
• Agents
• Architecture
• Citation
• Collection Description
• Education

• Government
• Libraries
• Registry
• Standards
• Tools
• Type
• User Guide

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Other groups

• Interest Groups
• Business
• Collaboratory
• Moving Pictures
• Multiple Languages

• Committees
• Directorate
• Executive Committee
• Advisory Committee
• Usage Board
• Web team

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2001 achievements

• Important results (Usage Board Recommendations,
  Architecture deliverables, Registry prototype,
  etc.)
• New participants (governments, industry,
  international organizations) and additional
  countries involved
• Organizational transition taking shape

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Deliverables

• Usage Guide
• DCMI Namespace Policy
• RDF/XML specs (simple, qualified DC)
• Tools workshop
• Prototype Registry
• Z39.85 ratified as US National Standard
• Government Extension Proposal

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Work in progress

• Administrative Metadata, Agents, Citation, Type
  resumed
• Library Application Profile
• Further Education extensions
• Further Government extensions
• Usage Board fully operational with full agenda

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Sleeping activities

• Working Groups
• Collaboratories
• Collection Description
• Interest Groups
• Business
• Moving Pictures

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Organizational transition

• Mandate to Directorate, confirmed by Madeira AC
  meeting, February 2001
• Managing Director appointed
• Usage Board established
• Board of Trustees being established
• Advisory Board charter presented

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Board of Trustees

• Charter
• Give strategic advice, oversee allocation of
  resources, help secure support for the DCMI
• Initial members
• Michael Crandall, Bill Melinda Gates Foundation
• Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC
• Juha Hakala, Helsinki University Library
• Neil McLean, Macquarie Univ. IMS Australia

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Usage Board

• Responsible for orderly development of the Dublin
  Core Metadata Element Set
• Operating on explicit principles and criteria
• Chaired by Tom Baker, DE
• Nine experts from various backgrounds
• First meeting May 2001

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Advisory Board

• Leadership forum (includes WG chairs and other
  experts)
• Advice on technical and strategic issues and
  deliverables
• Reviews activities and deliverables in context
• Ambassadors of DCMI and liasons to other
  communities

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External relations

• NISO Z39.85 ballot - successful
• IEEE/LOM MoU and Ottawa meeting in August 2001-
  results by end of year
• ANZ Regional Center proposed
• W3C Tutorial, EU e-Government activity MIReG,
  Eur. Environmental Agency, NDLTD (Dissertations),
  FAO, Adobe

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2002 Initial priorities

• Technical
• Domain groups (Edu, Lib, Gov, others?)
• Operational registry
• Further architecture work
• Organizational
• Governance model (Trustees-DIR-UB-AB)
• Funding model implementation
• Communication and outreach