We have a International panel of experts who will provide a special briefing about the Dublin Core Metadata Standard as well as the Dublin Core Community. Refreshments will be served. The distinguished panelists include:
Sutton is Co-Chair of DC-2003 Conference being held in Seattle in September/October. He is also co-chair of the DC-Education Working Group and instrumental in the formation of the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM), and National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Project, funded by NSF, "Breaking the Metadata Generation Bottleneck." He most recently co authored an D-Lib article with Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, and Stuart Weibel: "Metadata Principles and Practicalities,". D-Lib Magazine 8(4): (2002. Before coming to Seattle, he was an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, Director of the Masters of Library Science degree program and Senior Research Scientist with the Information Institute of Syracuse. His current research interests include metadata and networked information discovery and retrieval, technology-mediated teaching and learning, and the law and policy of intellectual property.
Baker is the Chair of DC Usage Board and has written numerous articles in the areas of metadata registries, application profiles, and the Resource Description Framework, RDF. Many of these articles can be found in D-Lib Magazine. Some of these publications include "A Grammar of Dublin Core" in 2000 and "Languages for Dublin Core" in 1998. Baker has presented numerous papers at Dublin Core conferences, International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, and the European Digital Library conferences over the past six years. Baker is helping to build a multilingual registry for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative . Finally he is a partner the EU-funded project SCHEMAS (a forum for metadata schema implementers) and leader of the Standardiazation Forum of the DELOS Network of Excellence. Before becoming the project leader in the GDM, Baker worked in Information technology at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. Baker is on the Program committee of DC-2003.
Powell is the creator DC-Dot, a Web based tool for generating, editing and reformatting DC metadata. He is co-chair of the DC-Collection Description Working Group and former chair of the inactive C-Format Working Group. Powell is a member of numerous committees, including the Open Archives Initiative Technical Committee. Andy is a major player at UKOLN, a cutting edge centre of expertise in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities. He has alwo written numerous articles about "RSLP Collection Description" and Resolving DOI Based URNs at UKOLN, "Encoding OpenURLs in Dublin Core metadata" (In Ariadne), and "Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)" with Harry Wagner. Some of his latest work centers on a national (UK) initiative to join services together using ZING (Z39.50-International: Next Generation), OAI, SRW Search/Retrieve Web Service, OpenURL, SOAP (Simple Access protocol), etc. as well as some work UKOLN has been doing in the UK to develop a smaller profile of Learning Object Metadata (LOM) and map it to DC.
Wilson is an archivist and co-chair of the DC-Government Working Group. He has been an instrumental player in the formation of the AGLS (Australian Government Locator Service) Metadata Standard. AGLS is a set of descriptive elements which government departments and agencies can use to improve the visibility and accessibility of their services and information over the Internet. His most recent endeavor includes the development of an approach to the preservation of digital records which is based on XML. The approach involves converting records in proprietary data formats to equivalent data formats in XML, using a software application being developed by the Archives.
Diane Hillmann is currently a co-PI for the Core Infrastructure portion of the National Science Digital Library. Prior to joining the NSDL in 2000, she worked for the Cornell University Library as cataloger and technical services manager. She was a liaison to and member of MARBI from the late 1980's to 2000, specializing in the Holdings and Authorities formats. Diane was an early participant in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, and is currently editor of "Using Dublin Core", administrator of DCMI's "AskDCMI" service, as well as a member of the DCMI Usage and Advisory Boards.
For more general information about DC, Makx Dekkers and Stuart Weibel have published the latest in the series of State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative reports in the April issue of DLib Magazine, the online journal for digital library applications. This article, listed below, highlights DC 2003, held last fall in Florence as well as other progress in the past year.
