Panel: Bridging Standards
- Starts at
- Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 16:30 GMT+2
- Finishes at
- Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 18:30 GMT+2
- Venue
- Auditorium
- Moderator
- Dan Albertson
Moderator
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Dan Albertson
Department of Information Science, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Dan Albertson is a Professor at the University at Buffalo where he also serves as the Chair of the Department of Information Science. Dan's primary research area is interactive video retrieval. His research projects have examined: user interaction with video digital libraries, human factors affecting interactive video retrieval, user-centered digital video curation, and visual information seeking. Some new and future research directions include cultural competency in digital content, STEM learning in informal spaces, and social media and scholarly communications.
Bridging Standards: DDI, Dublin Core, and the Future of Metadata Interoperability
This panel explores the evolving relationship between the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Dublin Core, highlighting opportunities for alignment, certification, and practical implementation.
Ingo Barkow will open with a historical and forward-looking perspective on DDI’s longstanding engagement with Dublin Core, tracing shared principles and points of convergence. Dan Gillman will discuss the process and benefits of ISO certification for metadata standards, with a focus on how formal recognition can strengthen adoption, interoperability, and trust in the broader data ecosystem. Oliver Hopt will introduce the DCTAP (Dublin Core Tabular Application Profiles) model, examining its potential as a lightweight, flexible approach to application profiles and considering how DCTAP might complement—or even replace—existing DDI profiles.
Together, the presentations frame a discussion on how communities can work across standards, leveraging shared goals to enhance usability, sustainability, and interoperability in the evolving metadata landscape.
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Ingo Barkow
University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons
Ingo Barkow has been employed at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden since 2015, initially as a lecturer in data management, becoming a professor in 2017 and the head of the Swiss Institute for Information Science in 2019. Previously, he worked as a data manager at the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) in Frankfurt, where he held the technical leadership in the areas of the Research Data Center (FDZ) and the Center for Technology-Based Assessment (TBA). -
Oliver Hopt
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Oliver Hopt studied computer schience at the University of Paderborn until 2002. After a short period at a software StartUp, he joined GESIS as a software devoloper in 2003. There he developed various information systems and metadata editors. One of these was a general questionnaire editor, that brgought him into contact with DDI and metadata standardization. He took part in several activities of the DDI Alliance since 2009. He is part of Technical Committee of the DDI Alliance since 2016 and also the co-chair of the DDI developers group. He became team lead for software engineering in 2023. -
Dan Gillman
Data Unchained
Dan Gillman recently retired from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and has over 30 years' experience developing metadata standards and conceptual models, building terminologies, and consulting with organizations implementing standards-based metadata systems. Dan's standards-development experience includes work with DDI Alliance, ISO/ANSI, UNECE, SDMX, OMG, W3C, and US government. He guided development of metadata systems at BLS, US Department of Labor, Census Bureau, and others. A conceptual model he co-authored for multi-dimensional data was adopted into the OMG FIBO and DDI-CDI standards.
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