Dublin Core and metadata: a tutorial

Metdata Workshop, Luxembourgh, 15 December 1997


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Table of Contents

Dublin Core and metadata: a tutorial

Questions for you ...

Overview

UKOLN and metadata

Metadata landscape

What is metadata …?

Metadata model: the library example

Variety of formal and informal metadata models

Variety of operations ...

Variety of sectors ...

Variety of creation models ...

Metadata ...

Some formats

Dublin core in the metadata landscape

Dublin Core

Dublin core - why success?

Introduction to Dublin Core

Dublin Core - elements

Dublin Core - HTML Example

Management

Data creation

UKOLN metadata system requirements

Managing Dublin Core (1) HTML Authoring tool

DC-dot

Managing Dublin Core (2) Web-site management tool

Managing Dublin Core (3) On the fly generation

UKOLN metadata system (1)

UKOLN metadata system (2)

UKOLN metadata system (3)

UKOLN metadata system (4)

Issues

A short history: Dublin to Helsinki

Dublin Core Workshop Series ..

.. Dublin Core Workshop Series

Dublin core - qualifiers

DC-5

Working groups

RFCs in preparation

Dublin Core implementation

Projects

The HTML 2.0 “kludge”

HTML 4.0 - DC influences the web

Some quick statistics

Interoperability

Interoperability

Interoperability?

Protocol Gateways - an example

Attribute names

Format of results

Z39.50 and DC - searching

Z39.50 and DC - retrieval

Format conversion - issues

Metadata registries

Some pointers

Harvesting

Harvesting Dublin Core

Harvesting - issues

Harvesting - issues

Harvest

Nordic Web Index

Other software

DC as cataloguer’s aid

DC as cataloguer’s aid

Building a Web index

Architecture - centralised

Architecture - Harvest

Architecture - multiple databases

WHOIS++ - Query routing

Dublin Core - critique

Limits

Futures

Dublin Core futures

Syntax

RDF: Why is it important?

Semantics

Environment

Further Information

Authors: Andy Powell and Lorcan Dempsey

Email: ukoln@ukoln.ac.uk

Home Page: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/

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