Global Corporate Circle Working Group

Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico October 4, 2006
Meeting Notes

Attending:
Gershom Rogers, University of North Carolina, USA
Jabe Greenberg, University of North Carolina, USA
Hans Overbeck, ICTU Foundation, Netherlands
S. Zahra Ahjunied, National Library Board, Singapore
Nancy Brodie, Treasury Board Secretariat, Government of Canada
Jose Antonio Yanez, OCLC, Mexico
Raju Buddharaju, National Library Board, Singapore
Flor Trillo, PAHO/World Health Organization, Mexico
Tom Baker
Makx Dekkers

Unfortunately, the experiment to use Skype Vappa conference call service did
not work very well. We learned that there were people on the phone, but that
they could not hear the meeting clearly.

Charter
The group discussed the overlap with DC-Government. It was noted that large
organizations have common issues, but different areas of emphasis. Therefore,
separate Dublin Core™ communities makes sense. It was agreed that the Charter
should not be changed.

It was recommended that a Task Group be formed to work on a general rather
than a specific application profile, since specific application profiles would
be proprietary and not readily shareable. It was noted that even functional
requirements would be useful.

It was recommended that a Task Group should be formed to work on a workshop
for DC-2007 which will be held in Singapore. We expect that there will be a
larger audience for a corporate workshop.

Workshop Theme
The rest of the working group session focused on identifying themes for workshops.
It was noted that this list of topics also represents areas of possible work
for the group.

• Implementation of DC in corporate environment. Workflow vs. organizational
  structure. Organization-dependent vs. sharable, common vocabularies. Are
  different taxonomies needed for internal vs. external audience? How should
  different taxonomies be mapped?

           

• How do you convince an organization that metadata is needed. What
  is the ROI continues to be of interest,.even though this has been covered
  in the slide deck on the DC_Corporate website. It's still something people
  want to talk about.

• Anti-metadata movement. Privacy concerns vs. transparency, legal
  requirements. Off- vs. on-record. Access vs. security. Records management.
  But this topic may be out of scope for Dublin Core™.

 

• Success stories. For example, Amazon.com provides access via book,
  but you get lots of related information.    Systems that allow
  you to explore several collections, e.g., OCLC worldcat finds different versions
  of the same material, and closest library that holds the material.

• Metadata for people or services such as business functions or processes,
  enterprise architectures, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such
  as SAP.

 

• Facetted search vendors. North Carolina State library catalog (which
  is Endeca's first library catalog application). There is interest in meeting
  leading edge vendors (as we did at the Metadata and Search workshop in Seattle),
  especially if they can share details and case studies.

• Metadata tagging within metadata Microsoft & Adobe applications.

 

• Social tagging user interfaces. Where do we draw the line about
  what is metadata and what is needed to process the content?

                       
It was noted that along with case studies, we need best practices. There was
a recommendation for a DC meeting tutorial about metadata ROI.