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1 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk DCMI Affiliates: Implications for Institutions Rosemary Russell UKOLN University of Bath Email R.Russell@ukoln.ac.uk URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ UKOLN is supported by: 14 June 2006 UKOLN Open Forum, Bath

2 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Contents What is metadata? Dublin Core Use DCMI Affiliate plans/feedback

3 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.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)

4 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Dublin Core Metadata Element Set An international standard Title Creator Subject Description Publisher Contributor Date Type Format Identifier Source Language Relation Coverage Rights

5 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 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

6 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.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)

7 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.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

8 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.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

9 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.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

10 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk DCMI Affiliate: UK Funded by MLA and JISC UKOLN is ‘managing agent’

11 A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.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?


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