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DC-Tools WG Meeting during DC-2006 in Manzanillo (Colima, Mexico)

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DC-Tools WG Meeting during DC-2006

The DCMI Tools Working Group will meet during DC-2006 International Conference.

Logistics:

Date & time: Thursday, October 5, 2006, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Location: Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico

Report:

[Draft]

Agenda:

Welcome

Summary of meetings from past year, including the JCDL Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories Workshop (see for a summary report: DOI://10.1045/july2006-greenberg)

Brief tool presentations:
1. A Tiny Retrieval Protocol: THUMP and Kernel Metadata (John Kunze, Preservation Technologist for the California Digital)
2. Roles for Semantic Technologies and Tools (Gershom Rogers, Sr. Business Analyst, Instructional Information Systems, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Doctoral Student, SILS Metadata Research Center)
3. Tools Used in Ontology Design (Sam Oh, Professor, Sungkyunkwan University)
4. Metadata and Ontology Tools at FAO (Margherita Sini, Information Management Specialist, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations)

Tools application profile, descriptive vocabulary, and taxonomy Jane Greenberg and Thomas Severiens (DC Tools WG Co-Chairs) with assistance of Tessa Sullivan, SILS Metadata Research Center Fellow. [Draft of Metadata Schema Application Profile], [Draft Metadata Glossary]

Open discussion and plans for 2006/2007

DC-Tools Community Meeting during DC-2008 in Berlin (Germany)

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DC-Tools Community Meeting during DC-2008

The DCMI Tools Community met during DC-2008 International Conference.

Logistics:

Date & time: Thursday, September 24, 2008, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Location: Room 1.102, Hegelplatz, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Agenda:

Welcome

Overview of activities within the last year
Tool presentation:
1. Collective Access — Open Source Collections Management Software (Seth Kaufman, Whirl-i-Gig)
Taking care of the Software- and Tools-Collection Thomas Severiens (University of Osnabrück and DC Tools Co-Chairs)
Open discussion and plans for 2008/2009

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Overview of the DC Tools community workshop 2010

Pittsburgh, US, October 22nd, 2010

Introduction to DC Tools Profile and Mission by Seth van Hooland.
Making content easy to find by Betsy Fanning
Discussion regarding the future work plan and strategy.

Outcomes

New tools were discussed, such as the Geonetwork, the eXtensible Catalog, Pool Party and the Embedded Metadata Extraction Tool, which will be included on the Tools list over the next few weeks.
The recent launch of Google Refine opens up new and exciting perspectives for the field of metadata quality, and leads the way on how visual tools can assist collection holders to anaylse and augment the quality of their metadata. The Tools community will try to develop over the next few months a small number of case-studies which demonstrate how Google Refine and other data quality tools can be used by metadata practitioners.
Apart from offering a list with software applications, more attention should be given to implementation guides. If possible, we should also try to provide links to test collections or case-studies which demonstrate the added value of the tool in a very practical manner.

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Issues and Challenges with the

Implementation of Metadata Schemes

Zadar, Croatia, May 29, 2009

Welcome, Introduction to DCMI and DC Tools Profile and Mission
by Seth van Hooland and Thomas Severiens.
Integration of Heterogeneous
Metadata in Europeana by Cesare Concordia
Understanding the standards gap by Dan Brickley

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more will follow

30.3.2007

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CASHMERE-int Workshop in Göttingen, February 28th - March 2nd

CASHMERE-int, a subproject of the "Competence Network: New Sciences, Standardisation, MetaData" hosts the first "Preservation and DC-Tools: Standards and Standardisation activities" workshop dealing with the subject of standards and standardisation activities in the field of long-term preservation, Webservices and Semantic Web.

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DCMI Tools Workshop

Location: Osnabrueck University, Osnabrueck, Germany
Date of meeting:: May or June 2001 (dates currently under discussion on mailing list)
Contact:: Roland Schwaenzl, University of Osnabrueck, Department of Mathematics/Computer Science
Who Should Participate:: Active developers of metadata applications interested in development of open source software that supports Dublin Core™ metadata and application-specific or domain specific extensions. Participation will be limited to 20.
Mailing List:: Subscription to the DCMI Tools Working Group mailing list is open to all.

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DCMI Tools Metadata Application Profile

Draft Proposal, April 23, 2007

Namespace	Element	Qualifiers	Example DC-dot	Example Picard Tagger
dc	contributor	doap:maintainer doap:developer doap:documenter doap:translator doap:tester	Rachel Heery	developer: LukasLalinsky developer: RobertKaye
dc	creator		Andy Powell
dc	date	dcterms:created dcterms:dateCopyrighted dcterms:modified dcterms:issued	Created: 7 July 1997	issued: 2006-06-25
dc	description		Extracts and validates metadata from HTML resources and MS Office files. The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS or RDF) if required.	PicardTagger allows you to automatically look up the releases/tracks in your music collection and then write clean metadata tags (ID3 tags, Vorbis comment fields, etc.) to your files. It also allow syou to specify how and where to write cleanly tagged files to your hard drive.
dc	identifer	doap:repository	http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/	http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardTagger repository: http://svn.musicbrainz.org/picard
dc	language		en-us, en-GB
dc	publisher
dc	relation	dcterms:hasPart dcterms:hasVersion dcterms:isPartOf dcterms:isReplacedBy dcterms:isRequiredBy dcterms:isVersionOf dcterms:replaces dcterms:requires doap: release	requires: Libwww-perl, soif.pl, Jon Knight's MARC module	requires: PyQt4 Mutagen (1.7) python-musicbrainz2 isPartOf: https://musicbrainz.helixcommunity.org/ release: 0.7.1
dc	rights	dcterms:accessRights dcterms:license	accessRights: open source license: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html	accessRights: open source license: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
dc	rightsHolder
dc	source	dcterms:URI		Workman, http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Workman
dc	title	dcterms:alternative	DC-dot	Picard Tagger
dc	type	dcterms:dataset dcterms:InteractiveResource dcterms:service dcterms:software	dcterms:InteractiveResource	dcterms:software
dcterms	audience	dctools:developer dctools:users		dctools:users dctools:developer
doap	location		Bath, UK
doap	programming-language		Perl	Python
doap	operatingsystem

We also propose to use the following vocabulary for describing the tools functionalities:

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DCMI Tools Glossary

Draft version, May 6, 2007

Algorithm

A finite set of well-defined instructions for accomplishing some task which, given an initial state, will terminate in a defined end-state. (Wikipedia)

Application Profile

An assemblage of metadata elements selected from one or more metadata schemas and combined in a compound schema. Application profiles provide the means to express principles of modularity and extensibility. The purpose of an application profile is to adapt or combine existing schemas into a package that is tailored to the functional requirements of a particular application, while retaining interoperability with the original base schemas. Part of such an adaptation may include the elaboration of local metadata elements that have importance in a given community or organization, but which are not expected to be important in a wider context. (Duval)

Automatically Generated Metadata

Metadata generated with the aid of machine processing. See derived metadata, metadata extraction, and metadata harvesting. (Greenberg)

Conversion

Can refer to either

conversion between schemas
conversion of encoding (x/html to xml)

Crosswalk

A semantic mapping of metadata elements across metadata schema specifications. Crosswalks permit searching across multiple databases that use different schemas (Greenberg)

Derived Metadata

Metadata that is automatically generated based on system programming and profiles. For example, a system program may automatically derive metadata values for "date_created", "date_modified", or resource "size". Additionally, a profile may be stored to automatically derive metadata, such as default values for "rights access", or "creator" information based on login identification. (Greenberg)

Manually generated metadata

Metadata generated by a human. Examples of classes of people generating metadata are metadata professionals (e.g., catalogers, indexers, and other persons trained to work with information standards), Web architects, content creators, and technical assistants. (Greenberg)

Metadata

An item of metadata may describe an individual data item or a collection of data items. Metadata is used to facilitate the understanding, use and management of data. (Wikipedia)

Metadata Creation

Creation of metadata can be either

by professional metadata creators; these include catalogers, indexers, and database administrators
by technical metadata creators; these include webmasters, data in-putters, paraprofessionals, encoders and other persons who create metadata and may have had basic training but not professional level training
by content creators; people who create the intellectual content of an object and the metadata for that object
by community / subject enthusiasts; people who have not had any formal metadata-creation training but have special subject knowledge and want to assist with documentation

(Greenberg)

Metadata Encoding

The syntax or prescribed order for the elements contained in the metadata description (NISO)

Metadata Extraction

Metadata generated by machine processing document content. Automatic indexing and information retrieval algorithms are generally employed. For example, term frequency algorithms are used to assign subject terms. Algorithms identifying nouns and noun phrases for metadata properties (e.g., author, date, title) may be used to identify metadata element values. (Greenberg)

Metadata Generation

The act of creating or producing metadata. Metadata can be generated by people, tools and processes (Greenberg)

Metadata Harvesting

Automatically gathering metadata that is already associated with a resource, and which has been produced via automatic or manual means. Metadata harvested may be attached to a document (e.g., it may be encoded in the header of a Web resource), or it may be found in a metadata registry or database. (Greenberg)

Metadata Template

Metadata format designed for some specific use or subject. (Severiens)

Namespace

In XML, a namespace is a collection of names, identified by a URI reference, that are used in XML documents as element types and attribute names. In order for XML documents to be able to use elements and attributes that have the same name but come from different sources, there must be a way to differentiate between the markup elements that come from the different sources. (Webopedia.com)

Schema

In general terms, any organization, coding, outline or plan of concepts. In terms of metadata, a systematic, orderly combination of elements or terms. In terms of DCMI term declarations represented in XML or RDF schema language, schemas are machine-processable specifications which define the structure and syntax of metadata specifications in a formal schema language. In terms of an encoding scheme, is a set of rules for encoding information that supports a specific community of users. See also Encoding scheme. (DCMI)

Search Engine

A utility capable of returning references to relevant information resources in response to a query. (DCMI)

Software

Consisting of programs, enables a computer to perform specific tasks (Wikipedia)

Software-Tool

Small piece of software, designed for developmental and laboratorial use (Severiens)

Translation

The interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language and the production, in another language, of an equivalent text that communicates the same message. Translation between may also convert meaning between semantics or schemes. (Wikipedia, Severiens)

Transliteration

Conversion of names or text not written in the roman alphabet to roman-alphabet form. (AACR Glossary)

Utility

Software program that functions for a particular purpose. (Wikipedia)

Validation

Validating that syntax of element contents is correct (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD)
validating the encoding (e.g., XML)

DCMI Tools Community

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DC-Tools WG Meeting during DC-2007

Slides from report in the Formal Session on August 28.

DCMI Tools Community agenda for August 29.