DC-7: Seventh Dublin Core Metadata Workshop

The seventh Dublin Core Metadata Workshop was held at Die Deutsche Bibliothek in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Co-sponsored by Die Deutsche Bibliothek and OCLC, with support from the National Science Foundation, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), DC-7 was a pivotal event in the development of Dublin Core qualifiers.

The goal of the workshop was to consolidate the developments of the various Dublin Core working groups, share implementation experiences, and promote Dublin Core in supporting interoperability amongst heterogeneous metadata systems. The work focused on qualifying the 15 Dublin Core metadata elements.

Key Outcomes

Dublin Core Qualifiers

The Dublin Core community emerged from DC-7 with the objective of approving a set of qualifiers intended to sharpen the semantics of the original 15 elements. This was the primary business of the workshop — moving from unqualified elements to a formal qualification framework.

Working Group Results

DC-7 featured extensive working group sessions, with 12 groups reporting results:

• Agents Working Group — addressed Creator, Contributor, and Publisher element qualification, favoring five qualifiers: Agent Type, Agent Name, Agent Affiliation, Agent Role (using MARC Code List of Relators), and Agent Identifier
• Citation Working Group — discussed approaches to citing resources described by Dublin Core
• Date and Coverage Working Group — recommended qualifiers "Date", "dateStart", and "dateEnd" for temporal coverage
• Government Working Group — chartered for government metadata applications
• Library Working Group — addressed library-specific Dublin Core applications
• Multiple Languages Working Group — developed approaches for multilingual metadata
• Rights Working Group — addressed intellectual property and access rights qualification
• Standards Working Group — coordinated Dublin Core standardization efforts
• Subject/Description/Language Working Group — refined these interconnected elements
• Title Working Group — addressed title qualification and alternative titles
• Type and Format Working Group — refined resource type and format vocabularies
• User Guide Working Group — advanced the "Using Dublin Core" documentation

Presentations

Gisle Hannemyr presented "The Internet is not your friend: Using the Dublin Core on the Internet."

International Organizing Committee

Leif Andresen (Danish National Library Authority), Tom Baker, David Bearman, Hans Becker, Warwick Cathro, Makx Dekkers (PricewaterhouseCoopers), Rebecca Guenther, Christel Hengel-Dittrich (Die Deutsche Bibliothek), Diane Hillmann, Renato Iannella (DSTC), Traugott Koch (NetLab, Lund University), Carl Lagoze, Eric Miller (OCLC), Paul Miller, Cliff Morgan, Diann Rusch-Feja, Roland Schwänzl, Stuart Weibel (OCLC), and Berthold Weiß (Die Deutsche Bibliothek).

National Organizing Committee

Kathrin Ansorge, Hans J. Becker, Christel Hengel-Dittrich, Diann Rusch-Feja, Ralf Schimmer, Roland Schwänzl, and Berthold Weiß (contact).

Resources

• Working group results and presentations (Internet Archive)
• Presentations from DC-7 (Internet Archive)
• Workshop schedule and agenda (Internet Archive)