Monday, October 14; 11:00 - 12:00
Introductory Plenary: A day in my life (at LANL)
Herbert Van de Sompel
Abstract: The presentation will provide insights in the work being conducted by the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team of the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The discussion of that work will serve as a seed to reflect on broader issues in Digital Library activities. Topics that will be addressed include novel applications of the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and some thoughts about its future in scholarly communication; the NISO standardization of OpenURL; work on repository architecture; a data-mining collaboration with Old Dominion University aimed at exposing document relationships; and work looking at bringing library services closer to users.
Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in mathematics and computer science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. there for his research on dynamic and context-sensitive reference linking, now commonly known as the OpenURL framework. From 1982 to 1998 he worked as Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. In 1999, Herbert spent six months at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on reference linking problems and preprint related matters. While at Los Alamos, Herbert started the Open Archives Initiative with Paul Ginsparg and Rick Luce. During the academic year 2000/2001, Herbert was Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University, working in the Digital Library Research Group, and teaching Computing Methods for Digital Libraries. Afterwards, he was Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. Now he is back at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, doing Digital Library Research and Protoyping. With Carl Lagoze, Herbert forms the Executive of the Open Archives Initiative, responsible for the publication of the Santa Fe Convention (2000) and the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Protocol (2001 & 2002). The OpenURL is the subject of a NISO standardization process, and Herbert serves on the NISO AX Committee charged with taking on that effort.
Tuesday, October 15; 11:00 - 12:00
Conference Plenary
Stuart Weibel
Stuart Weibel is the Executive Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. His keynote address will describe recent progress in the Initiative and outline expectations for DC-2002 and for the initiative in the coming year.
Wednesday, October 16; 11:00 - 12:00
Semantic Web Plenary
Eric Miller
Abstract: The Semantic Web is an evolution of the World Wide Web designed to support machine readable data as well as human readable material. The semantic web defines set of standardized representations for data (XML/RDF) and for the conceptual structures behind that data (RDF Schema, Web Ontology) to support a variety of new metadata applications. Technologies based on standards may be used to improve searching, navigation and management of content, data integration from disparate systems, discovery and composition of web services and facilitate software agents. This presentation will provide an overview of W3C's Semantic Web Activity as well as a discussion of the supporting technologies. A practical demonstration of these technologies for organizing and navigating distributed information on the web will also be provided.
Eric Miller is the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web Initiative.
Eric's responsibilities include the architectural and technical leadership in the design and evolution of Semantic Web infrastructure. Additional responsibilities include building support among user and vendor communities for the Semantic Web by illustrating the benefits to those communities and means of participating in the creation of a metadata-ready Web. And finally to establish liaisons with other technical standards bodies involved in Web-related technology to ensure compliance with existing Semantic Web standards and collect requirements for future W3C work.
Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Associate Director of the The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Eric holds a Research Scientist appointment at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.
Thursday, October 17; 16:30 - 17:30