We're pleased to announce four 90 minute tutorial sessions at DC-2003
covering a broad mix of subject areas:
- Tutorial 1 will focus on practical syntax issues, providing guidance
on how to encode DC metadata in (X)HTML, XML and RDF.
- Tutorial 2 will consider some of the issues around building and using
'application profiles' - the practice of adapting, constraining or
extending Dublin Core for specific uses or applications. The
tutorial will include summaries of the current state of the
DC-Government and DC-Libraries application profiles.
- Tutorial 3 will look beyond DCMI at the work of the Creative Commons,
an initiative that offers a suite of "some rights reserved" licenses
backed by RDF/XML metadata, for Digital Rights Description (DRD). This
tutorial will cover practical and technical aspects of creating,
publishing, verifying and searching Dublin Core metadata for DRD
deployed on the web in HTML, RSS, and beyond, e.g., on Peer-2-Peer
environments.
- Staying a little outside the DCMI fold, tutorial 4 will look at FAST, a
faceted adaptation of LCSH with a simplified syntax which retains the
very rich vocabulary of LCSH while making it easier to understand and
apply. FAST consists of eight distinct facets: Topical, Geographic
(Place), Personal Name, Corporate Name, Form (Type, Genre),
Chronological (Time, Period), Title, and Meeting Name. This tutorial
will review the development of FAST and look at how it can be applied in
the Dublin Core environment.
More information at: http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/tutorials.html
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