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CoLIS Workshop Announcement and Call for Contributions
Theme: Developing a metadata lifecycle model
Organisers: Jane Barton & R. John Robertson, Centre for Digital Library
Research, University of Strathclyde
Rationale:
Despite substantial investment in the development of digital
repositories, and of services based upon their content, there is little
real understanding as to how these repositories and services interact
beyond a technical level and a marked absence of a conceptual framework
for such interactions. As a result, service development takes place with
little reference to the context in which repositories are being
developed, and repositories derive little benefit from the services that
utilise their content. The establishment of such a framework could
unlock potential benefits, in terms of metadata quality and metadata
workflow efficiency, throughout the community as individual repositories
and services understand and exploit their interactions and the context
in which they take place. A conceptual framework for the interactions
between repositories and services must include not only repository-level
interactions - the ‘ecology of repositories’ - but also the lifecycle of
the objects within repositories and the lifecycle of the metadata
associated with them.
Specific objectives:
The main focus of the workshop is to develop a prototype model of the
metadata lifecycle, with reference both to the emerging understanding of
the interactions between repositories and services at a conceptual level
and to a range of practical examples of metadata lifecycles drawn from
existing repositories and services. More specifically, the workshop will
provide a forum in which to:
• present to and debate with a diverse audience the emerging
understanding of the interactions between repositories and services at
repository, object and metadata level;
• gather a broad range of illustrative examples of metadata
lifecycles from various communities of practice;
• facilitate the rapid articulation and refinement of a prototype
metadata lifecycle model.
The workshop will build on the 9th DELOS Network of Excellence (Digital
Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services) Workshop, held in
May 2005 as part of the DELOS programme’s interoperability strand,
reporting on the outcomes of that workshop and seeking to develop them
further.
Provisional programme:
Introduction: Workshop aims
Session 1: Context setting
Repositories, objects, metadata, quality and workflow: why we need a
metadata lifecycle model
Overarching models and frameworks
Session 2: Metadata management scenarios within communities of practice
Scenarios presented by invited speakers from three different communities
of practice
Additional scenarios contributed by workshop participants
Lunch
Session 3: Group discussions
Identifying the building blocks of a generic model
Modelling metadata scenarios within communities of practice
Applications of a metadata lifecycle model
Session 4: Moving towards a cross-community metadata lifecycle model
A cross-community scenario
Synthesis and summing up
Potential audience:
The workshop should be of interest to those interested in developing
frameworks or models and those involved in the implementation of digital
libraries, institutional, subject or learning object repositories, and
associated services across a broad range of communities of practice.
Registration:
This full day workshop is part of the CoLIS5 Conference and will be held
in Glasgow, Scotland on 8th June 2005. Workshop attendance costs £80 and
registration is via the CoLIS website at
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/colis5/colis.html.
Call for contributions:
We would like to invite anyone planning to attend the workshop to
contribute a metadata management scenario from within their own
community of practice. Scenarios should attempt to illustrate one of the
following:
• a model of existing metadata interoperability and interaction
within a community
• a model of potential interactions between repositories within a
community
• a partial model which focuses on a single repository and its actual
and potential interactions with the wider community
Due to time constraints we will have to be selective but the aim is to
include as many communities of practice as possible; contributors will
be asked to present their scenarios in just five minutes (two or three
slides). Anyone wishing to present a scenario should send a brief
outline to either Jane ([log in to unmask]) or John
([log in to unmask]) by 23rd May.
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R. John Robertson
Centre for Digital Library Research
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Strathclyde, Livingstone Tower
26 Richmond Street, Glasgow, G1 1XH, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 141 548 5854
Website: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
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