Dublin Core: The Road from Metadata Formats to Linked Data

Welcome & System Overview

1:00-1:05 p.m

Introduction

1:05-1:15 p.m

Dublin Core in the Early Web Revolution

1:15 pm - 1:30 pm:

Makx will describe how the early history of the Dublin Core illustrates an emerging split between two quite different paradigms for metadata -- one based on closed systems and record formats and the other based on recombinational metadata with an "open-world" assumption.

What Makes the Linked Data Approach Different

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm:

Tom will demonstrate how metadata can be designed for merging across the boundaries of repositories and data silos.

Designing Interoperable Metadata on Linked Data Principles

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm:

Tom will show how good metadata design is rooted in well-articulated requirements and how the interoperability of metadata depends on shared underlying vocabularies in the context of a shared "grammar" for metadata.

Bridging the Gap to the Linked Data Cloud

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm:

Makx will describe how existing metadata applications can participate in the Linked Data cloud with emphasis on the role of simple, generic vocabularies such as the Dublin Core in providing a common denominator for interoperability.

Q&A and Wrap-up

Speaker Biographies

Makx Dekkers has been Managing Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) since March 2001 and Chief Executive Officer of DCMI Ltd. since January 2009. For two decades he has been involved in many projects on information networking with an emphasis on access to public sector information in Europe. Before joining DCMI, he was development manager at a company in the Netherlands that develops software and services for library automation
and co-operation, and manager for technology solutions at a global consultancy company. He holds a M.Sc. in Theoretical Chemistry, Computer Science and History of Science of Utrecht University.

Thomas Baker is Chief Information Officer of DCMI Ltd. and is chair and founder of the DCMI Usage Board. He has previously worked as a researcher at the Goettingen State Library in Germany and the Fraunhofer Society (formerly GMD) in Bonn, and has participated in German and European digital library projects. He holds an M.S. in library science from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University, and he taught for two years at
the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. Recently co-chair of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group, he is a member of the W3C Semantic Web Coordination Group and currently co-chairs a W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data.