Hello all,
Here's some interesting news from Dublin Core. I almost missed this, it
came through on a Dublin Core list between Christmas and New Year, so
apologies for being slow in forwarding it ...
Phil.
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Subject: Report on DC-Education Working Group meeting in Shanghai
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:01:26 -0800
From: Stuart Sutton <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Stuart Sutton <[log in to unmask]>
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Our apologies to the DC-Education Working Group for being so tardy in
reporting here on the face-to-face breakout session and the DCMI/IEEE
LOM working session at DC-2004 in Shanghai. Full details of the
meeting are available through the Working Group homepage at DCMI. [1]
Included there is a summary report of the meeting. [2] The report
contains a link to the PowerPoint presentation used in the breakout
session. [3]
The decision to launch work on a full DC-Education Application Profile
should be of particular interest to the Working Group. The work plan
follows. We plan to follow the general outlines of the successful
process established by the DC-Libraries Working Group in the development
of the DC-Libraries Application Profile.
Establish Drafting Committee membership
Establish Drafting Committee process and calendar
Continue controlled vocabulary work
Set development priorities and processes
Draft proposals for top-priority vocabularies
Vet draft proposals on DC-Education mailing list
Begin liaison process with potential maintenance agencies
Liaise with IEEE LOM on inclusion of LOM elements
Complete preliminary AP draft for comment
Revise draft for vetting at DC-2005 (Madrid, Spain--September 12-15,
2005)
We also had a very successful "community" meeting with Working Group
members with interests in both the Dublin Core Education work and the
IEEE LOM work. The meeting in Shanghai was the second annual meeting of
this ad hoc group interested in promoting the well being and
interoperability of the two initiatives and their work product. The
discussion focused sharply on the continuing work of the Ottawa
Communique and the need for being able to mix elements and properties
from the two metadata schemes. While that work is complex and slow,
progress is being made. Several members of the group agreed to work on
a paper for formal publication that clearly defines the design issues in
the development of an application profile that draws from multiple
schemes based in disparate abstract models. It was noted in the meeting
that this problem is not peculiar to the work here in education and
training but is being experienced elsewhere--e.g., the proposed
DC-Libraries Application Profile mixes RDF properties (Dublin Core) with
XML elements (MODS).
We also agreed to pursue the task of making metadata for education and
training a permanent track in the DCMI Internatational Conference in
order to provide a useful and proper home for targeted metadata
research, development and practice. Thus, in the coming months, we will
be working with the planners of DC-2005 in Madrid on making such a track
a reality.
[1] http://www.dublincore.org/groups/education/
[2]
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/dcmi/Breakout-Report-Shanghai
.html
[3]
http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/dcmi/DC-Ed-Breakout-Shanghai.
ppt
Stuart Sutton, DC-Ed Co-Chair
Diane Hillmann, DC-Ed Co-chair
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