The DC Tools workshop at the DC2010 conference in Pittsburgh offered
the occasion to reflect on and discuss the strategy for the coming
year of the Tools community:
- The workshop started with a presentation by Betsy Fanning of AIIM
(slides will be uploaded to the Tools page), who talked about the lack
of the use of metadata standards within current deployments of
document and/or content management systems in the corporate sector,
and the issues regarding e-discovery that result from this situation.
Applications such as Sharepoint claim to support DC, but in practice
it is up to the users to implement and deploy the standard, which
rarely takes place in reality.
- New tools were discussed, such as the Geonetwork (http://geonetwork-opensource.org/
), the eXtensible Catalog (http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/), Pool
Party (http://poolparty.punkt.at/) and the Embedded Metadata
Extraction Tool (EMET, http://www.artstor.org/global/g-html/download-emet-public.html)
, which will be included on the Tools list over the next few weeks.
- The recent launch of Google Refine (http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
) opens up new and exciting perspectives for the field of metadata
quality, and leads the way on how visual tools can assist collection
holders to anaylse and augment the quality of their metadata. The
Tools community will try to develop over the next few months a small
number of case-studies which demonstrate how Google Refine and other
data quality tools can be used by metadata practitioners.
- Apart from offering a list with software applications, more
attention should be given to implementation guides. If possible, we
should also try to provide links to test collections or case-studies
which demonstrate the added value of the tool in a very practical
manner.
I will post this information on the Tools webpage next week.
Kind regards,
Seth van Hooland
Digital Information Chair - ULB
Département de l'Information et de la Communication | Université
Libre de Bruxelles
Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles
DB 11.113
http://sic.ulb.ac.be/
http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/
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