16th April 2007, Manchester

The most recent meeting of the Metadata and Digital Repository SIG focused on Dublin Core work. Most presentation files (slides and audio where available) are available from this page, alongside a summary of each presentation. For a fuller summary of the day, see Pete Johnston's summary.

Dublin Core Abstract Model
Pete Johnston (of Eduserv) presented an introduction to the Dublin Core Abstract Model. During his talk, Pete highlighted the context and motivation for the DCAM, expanding into application profiles and encoding guidelines. Finally, Pete put forward his thoughts on DC in 2007.

Files: [[Media:2007-04-16-dcam.ppt|PPT]] &#124; [[Media:01 Dublin Core Abstract Model.mp3|MP3]] &#124; [[Media:2007-04-16-dcam-mp3.ppt|PPT+MP3]]

LOM→DC mapping
Pete followed up his initial presentation with a short update on LOM→DC mapping, advising there had been little change since the similar presentation in June 2006's SIG meeting.

Files: [[Media:2007-04-16-lom-dcam.ppt|PPT]] &#124; [[Media:02 LOM DC mapping.mp3|MP3]] &#124; [[Media:2007-04-16-lom-dcam-mp3.ppt|PPT+MP3]]

ePrints Dublin Core Application Profile
Julie Allinson (UKOLN) spoke about the Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works (ePrints). Julie's presentation covered the background, model, application profile and vocabularies, and community acceptance, among other topics.

Files: [[Media:Eprints-ap-cetismdrsig-2007-04-17.ppt|PPT]] &#124; [[Media:03 ePrints Dublin Core Application Profile.mp3|MP3]] &#124; [[Media:Eprints-ap-cetismdrsig-2007-04-17-mp3.ppt|PPT+MP3]]

News and developments

 * IMS Project Under Formation SIG on Federated Architectures (FA PUF SIG?) - drawing up a charter to describe specification activity, centred around a cookbook of best practice in area of repository interoperability, federation, etc.
 * JISC CETIS Codebash (7th-8th June, Bolton, attendance by invite) - bring together technical people for two days and try to get interoperability happening, identifying problems that arise. Previous codebashes on content packaging involved reading/exporting CPs and trying to get a CP that could be read in by every application. Possible area could include assessment but not yet finalised.
 * The next SIG meeting is likely to be in June and will definitely be held at the University of Bolton.
 * Mention of SOURCE and SWORD projects.

UK DCMI affiliate work at UKOLN
Rosemary Russell gave a short update on UK DCMI affiliate work at UKOLN. Rosemary advised promoting the use of DC and adoptions of new profiles (e.g. ePrints profile) were important, in addition to mentioning other affiliates.

Files: [[Media:CETIS-SIG-DCMIaffil.ppt|PPT]] &#124; [[Media:04 UK DCMI affiliate work at UKOLN.mp3|MP3]] &#124; [[Media:CETIS-SIG-DCMIaffil-mp3.ppt|PPT+MP3]]

Sarah Currier
Sarah Currier - moderator of the DCMI Education Community - spoke about DC-Ed, providing a background and covering the DC-Ed application profile.

Files: [[Media:2007-04-16-sarah.ppt|PPT]] &#124; [[Media:05 DC-Ed.mp3|MP3]] &#124; [[Media:2007-04-16-sarah-mp3.ppt|PPT+MP3]]

Rob Tice
Rob Tice gave the final presentation of the day, talking about Becta's Vocabulary Management Services.

Files: PPT &#124; [[Media:06_Becta's_Vocabulary_Management_Services.mp3|MP3]] &#124; PPT+MP3

Evaluations

 * [[Media:20070416 SIG Meeting Evaluations Summary.pdf|Summary of evaluation forms]] (PDF)

Delegates

 * Delegate list

Date and location
16th April, 2007

Lascelles Williams Training Room

Manchester Computing

Oxford Road

Manchester M13 9PL