The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Outline of Today’s
Presentation
The Context for Metadata on the Web
The Web as an
Information System
Metadata: Enabling higher quality information services on the Web
Metadata for Resource
Description
and Discovery
The Internet Commons embraces
many Resource Description Communities
Interoperability
requires conventions about:
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Central Characteristics of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
The Dublin
Core
Metadata Element Set
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Workshop Series
DCMI Workshop Series
(continued)
Extensibility
(refined semantics)
Specification of
Encoding Rules
Define the Substructure
of a Compound Value
Tom Baker’s
Theory of Pidgin Metadata
Pidginization and Creolization
The Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative
CORC: Cooperative Online Resource Cataloging
Deployment Issues:
Metadata Association Models
and
Syntax
Association Models
for Deploying Metadata
Syntax
Alternatives:
Embedded HTML 4.0
Resource Description
Framework
What is it for?
Choosing Among
the Alternatives
Harvesting
Metadata:
A solution or just another problem?
Web-Wide Worlds
How important are web indexes?
Relationships to
Other Metadata Activities
DC-7 and the Workplan for the Year 2000
DC 2000
Workplan:
Qualifier Proposals
Document DC
Specifications
and Guides
DC 2000 Workplan:
Domain Specific Initiatives
Metadata Registry
Issues:
An important area of research