Thursday 17th December, Auditorium dell'Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, via Folco Portinari 5/red - Firenze

This Tutorial describes the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the history of the organization from a group of interested experts in 1995 to a formal organization with the legal incorporation in late 2008, and outlines the strategic directions and collaboration with other metadata initiatives over the years and the strategic directions that DCMI will be pursuing in the near future. After a brief outline of the organizational history of DCMI with presentation of the communities, task groups, processes, committees and operating rules, the tutorial will provide a general introduction to Dublin Core metadata, technical trends in the Dublin Core community over the past decade, and alternative approaches to descriptive metadata in the “Dublin Core” style. The second part of the tutorial reviews implementation technology alternatives using HTML, XML, and RDF, including new techniques such as embedded RDF a metadata in support of structured search.

Alongside the traditional paradigm of metadata interoperability on the basis of pre-coordinated agreements on natural-language definitions and specific data structures, the new paradigm of Linked Data offers a flexible framework for coherently merging diverse types of metadata on the basis of a shared underlying data model. The tutorial covers methods for expressing controlled vocabularies as Linked Data such as Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS).

Programme

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Morning: 09:00 - 13:00

1. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative - Makx Dekker

This Tutorial describes the history of the organization from a group of interested experts in 1995 to a formal organization with the legal incorporation in late 2008, and outlines the strategic directions and collaboration with other metadata initiatives over the years and the strategic directions that DCMI will be pursuing in the near future.

 History, objectives and approaches of DCMI
(9:00-9:30)

This will contain a brief outline of the organisational history of DCMI with presentation of the communities, task  groups, processes, committees and operating rules.

DCMI and the metadata landscape
(10:00-11:00)>

2a. Basics of Dublin Core metadata - Thomas Baker

This tutorial provides a general introduction to Dublin Core metadata, technical trends in the Dublin Core community over the past decade, and alternative approaches to descriptive metadata in the "Dublin Core" style.

Dublin Core in historical context
(11:30-12:30)

Starting in the mid-1990s with fifteen "core" elements, the Dublin Core community has followed (and sometimes  led) key innovations in metadata technology, from the notions of modularity and application profiles to Semantic Web and Linked Data.
This part of the tutorial will describe how the DCMI Abstract Model fits into this broader context.

Discussion

(12:30-13:00)

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Afternoon: 14:00 - 17:30

2b. Basics of Dublin Core metadata - Thomas Baker


Interoperability options in a complex Web of data
(14:00-15:30)

Alongside the traditional paradigm of metadata interoperability on the basis of pre-coordinated agreements on natural-language definitions and specific data structures, the new paradigm of Linked Data offers a flexible framework for coherently merging diverse types of metadata on the basis of a shared underlying data model.
This part of the tutorial will review implementation technology alternatives using HTML, XML, and RDF, including new techniques such as embedded RDF a metadata in support of structured search.
The tutorial will cover methods for expressing controlled vocabularies as Linked Data such as Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS).

3. The outcomes of DC-2009 - Makx Dekkers
(16:00-17:00)

This presentation will report on the main conclusions and recommendations that have emanated from the conference and workshop, with special attention for the subjects, discussions and outcomes of the three special sessions on Linked Data.

Discussion and conclusions
(17:00-17:30)