Metadata Roundtable - IMLS Digital Collections and Content

IMLS DCC Project tagline: Working toward Interoperable
Digital Content

The Metadata Roundtable is hosted by the Digital Collections and Content Research team and meets two to four times a month in the ISRL (3rd floor of GSLIS, East Side). We are a fairly informal group, and the topics we discuss are based on the interest of those who attend. If you would like to join the Metadata Roundtable subscribe to our mailing list or simply attend a discussion.

Summer 2008 Schedule

June 11, 12:30-2:00

Summer 2008
Fall 2007
Summer 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Summer 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Summer 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Summer 2003
Spring 2003

Metadata Roundtable Topics and Background Readings

June 11th Meeting

Topic: Making the Internet Public Library's metadata Dublin Core compliant
Session Leaders: Dr. Sabah Currim, Michael Galloway, Dr. Xia Lin, and Dr. Jung-ran Park from Drexel University
Background Readings:
1. Presentation slides https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/20080611UIUCMetadataRoundtable.ppt
2. Hypatia Metadata Fields https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/Hypatia%20Metadata%20Fields%20Rev.doc
3. Filled Hypatia record example https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/HypatiaRecord_Filled.doc
4. Filled LII record example https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/LIIRecord_Filled.doc

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May 7th Meeting

Topic: Interface options for IMLS DCC aggregation of digital collections
Session Leaders: Tim Cole and Mike Twidale
Background Readings:
2005 usability study by Richard Urban https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/230
2006 usability study by Kurt Groetsch and Mike Twidale, found on p. 22-31 of the Content and Use chapter of the 5 year IMLS DCC report http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/docs/FinalReport_ContentAndUse.pdf
2002 usability study by Sarah Shreeves http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v05/i03/Shreeves

April 30th Meeting

Topic: Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS)
Session Leader: David Riecks
Background Readings:
http://www.useplus.com/home.asp
http://www.useplus.com/useplus/license.asp

April 9th Meeting

Topic: Discussion of the Open Library project
Session Leader: Matt Cordial
Background Readings:
http://www.openlibrary.org

March 19th Meeting

Topic: BibApp project
Session Leader: Sarah Shreeves
Background Readings:
http://code.google.com/p/bibapp/

March 12th Meeting

Topic: Discussion of the new ISO standard draft "Information and documentation: Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources"
Session Leader: Richard Urban
Background Readings: Information and documentation: Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rjurban/shared/ISO_CD_690.pdf

February 20th Meeting

Topic: Metadata Quality Visualization
Session Leader: Michael Twidale
Background Readings:
1. Nichols, D. M. et al. (2008). A Lightweight Metadata Quality Tool[a paper submitted to JCDL 2008 conference] https://apps.lis.uiuc.edu/wiki/download/attachments/14073/metadata-vis-jcdl-2008-submitted.pdf
2. Dushay, N. and Hillmann, D.I. 2003. Analyzing metadata for effective use and re-use. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Seattle, WA. https://apps.lis.uiuc.edu/wiki/download/attachments/14073/Dushay_Hillmann_DC2003.doc
3.optional paper: Sanchez, J.A., Twidale, M.B., Nichols, D.M. and Silva, N.N. 2005. Experiences with starfield visualizations for analysis of library collections, Proceedings of the Visualization and Data Analysis Conference (VDA 2005), 215-225. SPIE. https://apps.lis.uiuc.edu/wiki/download/attachments/14073/vda-final1.pdf

February 13th Meeting

Topic: Discussion of the findings of RLG Programs Descriptive Metadata Practices Survey (in comparison with results obtained by IMLS DCC project)
Session Leaders: Carole Palmer, Sarah Shreeves
Background Readings:
1. narrative of RLG report http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2007-03.pdf
2. dataset of RLG report http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2007-04.pdf
3. IMLS DCC findings: Palmer,C., Zavalina,O., & Mustafoff, M. (2007). A Longitudinal Study of Collection Federation. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/docs/JCDL07_june_22-rev.ppt
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/JCDL07_final_for_IDEALS.doc

January 30th Meeting

Topic: Discussion of the Library of Congress Working Group's Final Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control
Session Leader: Kathryn La Barre
Background Readings: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/

January 23rd Meeting

Topic: Discussion of the findings obtained in a content analysis on IMLS DCC Registry collection records
Session Leaders: Carole Palmer, Oksana Zavalina
Background Readings: a draft of JCDL paper https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/JCDL2008paper_Jan20.doc

January 16th Meeting

Topic: Discussion about MuseumDat, and the application of CRM to the CDWA Lite schema
Session Leader: Richard Urban
Background Readings:
MuseumDat website http://www.museumdat.org/index.php?ln=en

January 9th Meeting

Topic: Open IMLS Digital Collections and Content project meeting
Session Leader: Carole Palmer

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December 5th Meeting

Topic: Open IMLS Digital Collections and Content project meeting to discuss executive summary of IMLS DCC final grant report and important issues related to the new phase of the grant
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Readings: Current version of IMLS DCC Final grant project report (on GSLIS wiki) https://apps.lis.uiuc.edu/wiki/display/LRC/Final+Report

November 28th Meeting

Topic: Continuation of Discussion on Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) standard and its use cases and applications
Session Leader: Tim Cole
Background Readings:
1. Main public ORE documents page http://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/index.php
2. A recent blog thread about fragment URIs and the concept of "information resources" http://iandavis.com/blog/2007/11/what-are-information-resources-good-for
3. Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze. 2007. "Interoperability for the Discovery, Use, and Re-Use of Units of Scholarly Communication," CT Watch Quarterly 3 (3), online http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/08/interoperability-for-the-discovery-use-and-re-use-of-units-of-scholarly-communication
4. ATOM format description at: http://atompub.org/rfc4287.html
Optional Deep Background Reading: Jeremy J. Carroll, Christian Bizer, Pat Hayes, Patrick Stickler. 2005. "Web Graphs," Journal of Web Semantics / Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 3 (4): 247-267. doi:10.1016/j.websem.2005.09.001 Available through the UIUC Library's subscription to ScienceDirect.

November 14th Meeting

Topic: Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) standard and its ATOM-based implementation
Session Leader: Tim Cole
Background Readings:
1. Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze. 2007. "Interoperability for the Discovery, Use, and Re-Use of Units of Scholarly Communication," CT Watch Quarterly 3 (3), online http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2007/08/interoperability-for-the-discovery-use-and-re-use-of-units-of-scholarly-communication/
2. ATOM format description at: http://atompub.org/rfc4287.html
Optional Deep Background Reading: Jeremy J. Carroll, Christian Bizer, Pat Hayes, Patrick Stickler. 2005. "Web Graphs," Journal of Web Semantics / Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 3 (4): 247-267. doi:10.1016/j.websem.2005.09.001 Available through the UIUC Library's subscription to ScienceDirect.

November 7th Meeting

Topic: Game classification issues
Session Leader: David Dubin
Background Readings: None

October 31st Meeting

Topic: General IMLS DCC project meeting: New grant direcions and near-term goals
Session Leader: Carole Palmer

October 10th Meeting

Topic: Key issues with semantic theories in Knowledge Organization (especially as they relate to controlled vocabulary) Audio record of this discussion is available at http://waterfall.lis.uiuc.edu/dl/classes/mdrt/mdrtoct10_07_1.ram
Session Leaders: Mark Lindner (UIUC) and David Bade (University of Chicago)
Special Guest: Birger Hjorland, Research Professor at the Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen, Denmark, and Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (UIUC)
Background Readings:
1. Hjorland, Birger. "Semantics and knowledge organization." Annual Review of Information Science Technology 41. (2007): 367-405. http://web.library.uiuc.edu.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/ereserves/item.asp?id=78944
2. 1-page description of the basic tenets of Roy Harris' philosophy of language http://www.royharrisonline.com/integrationism.html
3. Michael R. Walrod, "Language: object or event? The integration of language and life" in Nigel Love (ed.), Language and History: integrationist perspectives (Routledge, 2006).

September 19th Meeting

Topic: Results of comparative analysis of the search functionality in two IMLS DCC Metadata Repository interfaces
Session Leader: Patricia Hswe
Background Readings: Hswe, P. (2007). In Search of Relevance: A Comparative Study of Query Runs in Two Interfaces in the IMLS DCC Metadata Repository https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/phswe/Hswe_591-InterfaceComparison.pdf

September 12th Meeting

Topic: Metadata for preservation of interactive software within the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model
Session Leader: Jerome McDonough
Background Readings:
McDonough, J. (2007). When Software Becomes Data: Issues in the Curation of Software within the OAIS Reference Model. Submitted to 3rd International Digital Curation Conference.https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/SoftwareAsData.pdf Please do not distribute

September 5th Meeting

Topic: DCMI Abstract Model discussion: part 2 (continuation of July 18th discussion)
Session Leader: Dave Dubin
Background Readings:
1. Nilsson, Johnston, Naeve, & Powell (2006). Towards an Interoperability Framework for Metadata Standards.International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 3-6 October 2006 http://kmr.nada.kth.se/papers/SemanticWeb/TowardsAFramework.pdf
2. Audio archive of July 18th discussion http://waterfall.lis.uiuc.edu/dl/classes/mdrt/metadataRoundtable071807.ram

August 29th Meeting

Topic: First meeting of the new school year
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Readings: No readings but please be prepared to talk about your current research and interests in metadata and metadata-related issues. We'd like to use this first Roundtable to hear what folks are working on, interested in, and interested in hearing more about.

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July 25th Meeting

Topic: International Standard Collection Identifiers
Session Leader: Richard Urban
Background Readings:
Draft standard for International Standard Collection Identifiers (ISCI), which is under review by the International Organization for Standardization(ISO)http://www.niso.org/pdfs/ISO_NP_27730ISCIandWD.pdf

July 18th Meeting

Topic: DCMI Abstract model
Session Leader: Dave Dubin
Background Readings:
Nilsson,Johnston, Naeve, Powell. (2006). Towards an Interoperability Framework for Metadata Standards.International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 3 - 6 October 2006. http://kmr.nada.kth.se/~mini/papers/TowardsAFramework.pdf

July 11th Meeting

Topic: Greene-Meissner recommendations and their impact on the archival community
Session Leader: Chris Prom (Assistant University Archivist for the UIUC Archives)
Background Readings:
1) Greene-Meissner report "More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival Processing" in American Archivist v.68, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2005 http://ahc.uwyo.edu/documents/faculty/greene/papers/Greene-Meissner.pdf
2) Chris Prom's own work on this subject (forthcoming in College and University Archives: Readings in Theory and Practice, to be published in early 2008 by Society of American Archivists) http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/workpap/ChapterNine-Prom.pdf

May 30th Meeting

Topic: Community review of CDWA-Lite metadata standard
Session Leaders: Sarah Shreeves, Richard Urban
Background Readings:
http://getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/cdwalite.html

May 23rd Meeting

Topic: Second meeting of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
Session Leader: Kathryn La Barre
Background Readings:
1. LITA blog posting http://litablog.org/2007/05/09/%e2%80%9cstructures-and-standards-for-bibliographic-data%e2%80%9d-pt1
2. Series of blog postings on Mark Lindner's Off the Mark blog:
A teaser and links to Diane Hillmann's posts at the LITA Blog: http://tinyurl.com/2udc6t
Part 1: Welcome(s): http://tinyurl.com/36moen
Part 2: David Bade http://tinyurl.com/2jzuup
Part 3: Diane Hillmann http://tinyurl.com/2q345k
Part 4: Jane Greenberg http://tinyurl.com/2shc2v
Part 5: Jennifer Bowen http://tinyurl.com/32am7g
Part 6: Public testimony and wrap-up http://tinyurl.com/3dqwlt

May 16th Meeting

Topic: Dublin Core metadata harvested through OAI-PMH
Session Leaders: Amy Jackson, MJ Han, Kurt Groetsch
Background Readings:
1. Shreeves, S.L., Knutson, E.M., Stvilia, B., Palmer, C.L., Twidale, M.B., & Cole, T.W. (2005). Is ‘quality' metadata ‘shareable' metadata? The implications of local metadata practice on federated collections. In H.A. Thompson (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 7-10 2005, Minneapolis, MN . Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 223-237 https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/shreeves05.pdf
2. Ward, J. (2004). Unqualified Dublin Core usage in OAI-PMH data providers. OCLC Systems and Services: International Digital Library Perspectives, 20(1), 40-47. https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/ward.PDF
3. Hutt, A., & Riley, J. (2005). Semantics abd Syntax of Dublin Core Usage in Open Archives Initiative Data Providers of Cultural Heritage Materials. JCDL'05, 262-270 https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/SemanticsAndSyntax.pdf

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May 9th Meeting

Topic: User searches in IMLS Digital Collections and Content Registry : Discussion of a Paper Accepted for Publication in Proceedigns of the 2007 ASIST annual meeting
Session Leader: Oksana Zavalina
Background Readings: Zavalina, O. (2007). Collection-Level User Searches in Federated Digital Resource Environment https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/zavalinaASIST2007_May9.doc

May 2nd Meeting

Topic: Scholarly Annotation Services and Potential Usefulness of OAI-ORE as a Framework for Facilitating Such Services
Session Leader: Tim Cole
Background Readings:
Herbert Van de Sompel (2007). OAI Object Re-Use and Exchange: presentation at OAI5 conference:
PPT:http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=3&resId=0&mate rialId=slides&confId=5710
Stream video of the presentation: http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=3&materialId=vide o&confId=5710

April 4th Meeting

Topic: Metadata Trends: Discussion of IMLS DCC Research Team's Paper Accepted for Publication in Proceedigns of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries' 2007
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Readings:
Palmer, C., Zavalina, O., & Mustafoff, M.(2007). Trends in Metadata Practices: A Longitudinal Study of Collection Federation Metadata https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/Palmer_JCDL07_resubmit_Jan29_mm_oz-1.doc

March 28th Meeting

Topic: National Science Digital Library's Experiences Developing the Metadata Registry
Session Leader: Tim Cole
Background Readings:
1. Hillmann, D., Sutton, S., Phipps, J., & Laundry, R. (2006). A Metadata Registry from Vocabularies Up: The NSDL Registry Project http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0605111
2. http://metadataregistry.org/wiki/index.php/Working_Notes_and_Documentation

March 14th Meeting

Topic: Eprints Application Profile
Session Leader: Sarah Shreeves
Background Readings:
1. The main page for the Eprints Application Profile http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/Eprints_Application_Profile
2. The actual profile http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/EPrints_Application_Profile

March 7th Meeting

Topic: Data Curation and Preservation: use of shared data collections and the problem of gaps or discontinuities and their representation
Session Leader: Melissa Cragin
Background Readings: Cragin, M.(2007). Resource Collections and Data Curation: A Case Study in Neuroscience: Draft https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/Res_Colls_manuscript_MDRT_3_07.rtf

February 21st Meeting

Topic: Discussion on Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Standard (DCMI) revisions
Session Leader: Mark Lindner
Background Readings:
Revised Standard (13 pages)http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-85-200X.pdf
Change Details (10 pages) http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-85-200X-ChangeDetail.pdf and
Change Summary (1 page) http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-85-200X-ChangeSummary.pdf

February 7th Meeting

Topic: Discussion of RDA Panel at ALA Midwinter Conference (archived audio)
Session Leaders: Sarah Shreeves, Kathryn La Barre
Background Readings:
1) Coyle, K., & Hillmann, D.(2007). Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging rules for the 20th century. D-Lib Magazine, 13(12) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/coyle/01coyle.html
2) Information from the RDA website (particularly Scope and Structure; Objectives and Principles) http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html
3) For the other side of the debate see website of the Electronic Resources Interest Group Meeting at the ALA Midwinter 2007 (particularly presentations by Mary Woodley and Barbara Tillett) http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/divisiongroups/ig/er/mw07erig.htm

January 31st Meeting

Topic: IMLS NLG Grant Proposal Writing Meeting
Session Leaders: Carole Palmer
Background Readings:
Grant proposal draft https://apps.lis.uiuc.edu/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=14593 [requires GSLIS user name and password] or https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/LRC-14593-20070130-12_50_48.pdf [open to public]

January 24th Meeting

Topic: Issues of Collection Level Description and Its Relation to Item-Level Metadata in IMLS Digital Collection Registry and Item Repository: Thoughts for IMLS NLG Grant Proposal
Session Leaders Carole Palmer and Allen Renear
Background Readings:
1) The current draft of the grant proposal https://apps.lis.uiuc.edu/wiki/download/attachments/14073/RRdraft1-23-07-clp.doc [requires GSLIS user name and password]
2) Using Collection Descriptions to Enhance an Aggregation of Harvested Item-Level Metadata, M Foulonneau, TW Cole, TG Habing, SL Shreeves ,JCDL 2005. http://cicharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/documentsusingcollectiondescriptions.pdf
3) Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/collection-application-profile/

January 17th Meeting

Topic:From Fair Use to Fair Trading: Creating a Digital Image Matchmaking Commons panel of the upcoming Visual Resources Association conference
Session Leaders Richard Urban
Background Readings: n/a

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December 13th Meeting

Topic: Continuation of the Open IMLS DCC Project Meeting on National Leadership Grant Proposal Writing
Session Leaders: Tim Cole, Carole Palmer
Background Readings:
Application and guidelines for the 2007 NLG grant http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/pdf/NLG_2007.pdf
Draft of research questions for the proposal https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/research%20questions.doc
Abstract submitted for the internal review https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/2007IMLSDCCabstract.doc

November 29th Meeting

Topic: Open IMLS DCC Project Meeting on NLG Grant Proposal Writing
Session Leaders: Tim Cole, Carole Palmer
Background Readings:
The most recent draft of research questions for the proposal https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/research%20questions.doc
Abstract submitted for the internal review https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/2007IMLSDCCabstract.doc

November 15th Meeting

Topic: Pathways Core Framework and its general applicability
Session Leader: Tim Cole
Background Readings: Warner, S., Bekaert, J., Lagoze, C., Lin, X., Payette, S., Van de Sompel, H.(2006). Pathways: Augmenting interoperability across scholarly repositories. https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/PathwaysCoreFramework.pdf

November 1st Meeting

Topic: Open IMLS DCC Project Meeting on NLG Grant Proposal Writing
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Readings: A draft of research questions for the proposal https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/research%20questions.doc

October 25th Meeting

Topic: Features of the Concept of a Digital Collection and their Relation to the Concept of a Physical Collection
Session Leader: Mike Twidale
Background Readings:
1) Selected interview data from IMLS DCC research project https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/DCC_Project/DCvsPCtable.doc
2) For a context to the data and discussion see Palmer, C., Knutson, E., Twidale, M., & Zavalina, O. (In print). Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development. In Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Medford, NJ : American Society for Information Science and Technology https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/DCC_Project/ASIST06FinalSubmittedVersion.doc
We found a surprising variety of ways that the term 'collection' was used by our respondents. Indeed some of them explicitly remarked that the term was fuzzy or problematic. In this roundtable discussion we want to consider current understandings as well as possible alternate aspects of meanings of the concept of collection. We also want to consider whether we need new, related but distinct concepts, engendered by the evolving understanding of the potential and practice of creating and using digital resources and their relation to the use of physical resources.

October 11th Meeting

Topic: Results of the latest round of usability testing on the IMLS Digital Collections and Content site (with a focus on users' experiences and behavior when using the IMLS DCC interface to search for items across multiple collections)
Session Leader: Kurt Groetsch
Background Readings:
1) Powerpoint of presentation https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/kgroets2/www/IMLS_Usability.ppt
2)Summary of previous user testing that focused on the IMLS Collections Registry http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/3YearReport/UsabilityReport1.pdf
3) The version of the interface as tested http://cicharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/heritage/collections.asp

October 4th Meeting

Topic: Systematic approach to linking two disparate sets of articles
Session Leader: Vetle I. Torvik from Arrowsmith project
Background Readings:
1) Smalheiser, N.R., Torvik, V.I., Bischoff-Grethe, A., Burhans, L.B., Gabriel, M., Homayouni, R., Kashef, A., Martone, M.E., Perkins, G.A., Price, D.L., Talk, A.C., West, R. (2006). Collaborative development of the Arrowsmith two node search interface designed for laboratory investigators. Journal of Biomedical Discovery Collaboration, 1(1), 8. http://www.j-biomed-discovery.com/content/1/1/8
2) Swanson, D.R., Smalheiser, N.R., Torvik, V.I. (2006). Ranking indirect connections in literature-based discovery: The role of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). JASIST, 57(11), 1427-1439. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/fulltext/112675888/PDFSTART

September 27th Meeting

Topic: Quantifying literature citations, index terms, and Gene Ontology annotations in the Saccharomyces Genome Database to assess results-set clustering utility
Session Leaders: W. John MacMullen (University of North Carolina)
Background Readings:
1) Browse around on the SGD site, which is from where the data analyzed comes: http://yeastgenome.org
2)Pages for the ACT1 gene are a good example of what the system provides for well-characterized genes: http://db.yeastgenome.org/cgi-bin/locus.pl?locus=act1
3)For possible discussion of the role of scientific curators look at the SGD staff page which lists the personnel and some of their backgrounds: http://yeastgenome.org/SGD-staff.html

September 20th Meeting

Topic: Better, Faster, Cheaper, More: The Economics of Descriptive Metadata?
Session Leaders: Sarah Shreeves
Background Readings:
1) William E. Moen's presentation on the future of MARC at 2006 August RLG Members Forum:
mp3 of talk http://www.rlg.org/en/downloads/Bill_Moen.mp3
pdf of presentation http://www.rlg.org/en/pdfs/Forum.8-06.Moen.pdf
pdf of selected results http://www.rlg.org/en/pdfs/Forum.8-06.Moen_SelectedResults_Books.pdf
pdf of MARC record http://www.rlg.org/en/pdfs/Forum.8-06.Moen.MAR%20Record_MCDUParsed.pdf
2) Jim LeBlanc talk at 2006 August RLG Members Forum: More, Faster, Cheaper: Pragmatism and Paradox in the Quest for Better Bibliographic Access http://www.rlg.org/en/downloads/Jim_LeBlanc.mp3
3) Keynote address by Mark Dimunation at 2006 August RLG Members Forum http://www.rlg.org/en/downloads/Mark_Dimunation.mp3

September 13th Meeting

Topic: Is Metadata "Dead"?
Session Leaders:Tim Cole
Background Reading:
Lagoze, C., Krafft, D., Cornwell, T., Dushay, N., Eckstrom, D., Saylor, J. (2006). Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries": A retrospective on the NSDL experience. In 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM Press: New York. Pre-print available: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0601125

September 6th Meeting

Topic: Continuation of discussion on Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
Session Leaders:Tim Cole and Sarah Shreeves
Background Readings:
1) The 2nd edition of the IMLS/NISO Framework of Guidance For Building Good Digital Collections http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.pdf
2) The draft of Tim Cole's white paper written in responce to IMLS request to comment on the Framework based on experiences over the last 3+ years on the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/3YearReport/Cole-Framework-IMLSDCC-Aug27.pdf

August 30th Meeting

Topic: Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
Session Leader: Sarah Shreeves
Background Readings:
1) The 2nd edition of the IMLS/NISO Framework of Guidance For Building Good Digital Collections http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.pdf
2) The draft of Tim Cole's white paper written in responce to IMLS request to comment on the Framework based on experiences over the last 3+ years on the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/3YearReport/Cole-Framework-IMLSDCC-Aug27.pdf
3) Optional -- for additional background regarding the genesis of the Framework -- Tim Cole's 2002 First Monday article http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/cole

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July 12th Meeting

Topic: Collection definition
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Readings: Currall, J., Moss, M., & Stuart, S. (2004). What is a collection? Archivaria, (58), 131-146. (copies are available in the Metadata Roundtable readings box on top of faculty mailboxes, 2nd floor of GSLIS building)

June 28th Meeting

Topic: Calhoun report
Session Leader: Chiat Naun Chew and K.C. Elhard
Primary Background Reading:
Calhoun, Karen (2006). The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006. Prepared for the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf (especially, Appendices B and C, pp. 31-44)
Secondary Background Readings:
1) Mann, Thomas (2006). The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, Final Report, March 17, 2006, Prepared for the Library of Congress by Karen Calhoun: A Critical Review http://guild2910.org/AFSCMECalhounReviewREV.pdf
2) Jackie Byrd et al.(2006). A White Paper on the Future of Cataloging at Indiana University http://www.iub.edu/~libtserv/pub/Future_of_Cataloging_White_Paper.pdf

June 21st Meeting

Topic: Subject Access to Federated Collections: a Case of IMLS DCC Collection Registry
Session Leader: Oksana Zavalina
Background Readings: Zavalina, O.(2006). User Searches in IMLS DCC Collection Registry: Transaction Log Analysis. Technical Report UIUCLIS--2006/3+IMLS, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/DCC_Project/Tech_report.doc

June 14th Meeting

Topic: Boundaries in the Context of VRACore Metadata (Continuation from June 7th meeting)
Session Leader: Richard Urban
Background Readings:
1) Urban, Richard (2006). Folio Metaphysics: Wholes, Parts and Boundaries in Cultural Objects https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rjurban/www/mdrt_folio.doc
2) Smith, Barry. (2001). Fiat Objects. Topoi, 20, no. 2, 131- 148 http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/faculty/smith/articles/fiatobjects.pdf

June 7th Meeting

Topic: Whole-part Relationships and Boundaries in the Context of VRACore Metadata
Session Leader: Richard Urban
Background Reading: Urban, Richard (2006). Folio Metaphysics: Wholes, Parts and Boundaries in Cultural Objects https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rjurban/www/mdrt_folio.doc
More Background Readings:
1) Morton E. Winston and Roger Chaffin and Douglas J. Hermann (1987). A taxonomy of part-whole relations." Cognitive Science, 11, no. 4, p. 417-444.https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/morton.pdf
2) Smith, Barry. (2001). Fiat Objects. Topoi, 20, no. 2, 131- 148 http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/faculty/smith/articles/fiatobjects.pdf

May 31st Meeting

Topic: CIDOC CRM
Session Leader: Allen Renear
Background Readings: Definition of The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model. Version 4.2. http://cidoc.ic$ We may also look at some of the FAQ examples in How to model with CIDOC CRM FAQ http://139.91.183.17:81/tiki/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=13

May 24th Meeting

Topic: Developing an "object oriented" version of FRBR harmonized with the CIDOC CRM
Session Leader: Allen Renear
Background Readings:
1) Current working draft of the FRBR-OO document http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/zavalina/MDRT/FRBR-oo.doc (word file) or http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/zavalina/MDRT/FRBR-oo.pdf (PDF file)
NOTE: this is a working draft of "International Working Group on FRBR and CIDOC CRM Harmonisation". At this time it is under constant revision and has no official status with IFLA, CIDOC or any other organization.
2) Introduction to (p. 7-18 of) Definition of The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model. Version 4.2. cidoc.ics.forth.gr/docs/cidoc_crm_version_4.2.pdf
Optional Reading: Mylopoulos J., Borgida A., Jarke M., Coubarakis M.(1990). Telos: representing knowledge about information systems. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 8 (4), p. 325-362 http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/110000/102676/p325- mylopoulos.pdf

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May 17th Meeting

Topic: Developing an "object oriented" version of FRBR harmonized with the CIDOC CRM
Session Leader: Allen Renear
Background Reading: Current working draft of the FRBR-OO document http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/zavalina/MDRT/FRBR-oo.doc (word file) or http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/zavalina/MDRT/FRBR-oo.pdf (PDF file)
NOTE: this is a working draft of "International Working Group on FRBR and CIDOC CRM Harmonisation". At this time it is under constant revision and has no official status with IFLA, CIDOC or any other organization.

May 10th Meeting

Topic: Neuro-ontologies
Session Leader: Maryann Martone
Background Reading: Martone et al. E-neuroscience: challenges and triumphs in integrating distributed data from molecules to brains. Nat Neurosci. 2004 May;7(5):467-72. https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRTpapers/Martone04.pdf

May 3rd Meeting

Topic: Metadata Inference and Digital Preservation
Session Leader: David Dubin
Background Reading: Dubin D., Futrelle J., & Plutchak J. (2006) Metadata Enrichment for Digital Preservation: Paper Submission Extreme2006-15 http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~ddubin/wrigrp/Extreme2006-15-Dubin01.pdf

April 26th Meeting

Topic: Asset actions presented at the last DLF meeting
Session Leader: Muriel Foulonneau, Tim Cole
Background Reading: Obtaining Multiple Views of Resources in an OAI Context http://rama.grainger.uiuc.edu/assetactions/documents/DLFAquiferTechWG-ObtainingObjectViews.rtf

April 19th Meeting

Topic: MODS work in the context of DLF Aquifer Initiative
Session Leader: Sarah Shreeves
Background Reading: Examples from the Birds of a Feather session (discussions of the changes made in the Implementation Guidelines,and in particular, issues raised around what is being described within a single record) https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/sshreeve/www/MWGSummaryforBOF.htm

April 12th Meeting

Topic: Collection Landscaping
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Reading: Dunsire, Gordon (2004). Collection landscaping in the common information environment: a case study using the Scottish Collections Network (SCONE)http://ccinterop.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/documents/ccicldlandscaping.pdf

April 5th Meeting

Topic: METS Profiles and Developing an Interoperability Framework for Digital Repositories.
Session Leaders: Richard Urban and Tom Habing
Background Reading:https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rjurban/www/MDRT_METS.rtf

March 29th Meeting

Topic: Issue of Sets in Collection Description
Session Leaders: Muriel Foulonneau and Sarah Shreeves
Background Reading: White Paper http://comm.nsdl.org/download.php/623/set-description_ver6.doc , Best Practices for Sets http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SetPractices

March 15th Meeting

Topic: Digital library designs and architecture: Middle East Digital Library Workshop (January 2006, Alexandria, Egypt)
Session Leader: Tim Cole
Background Reading: Workshop's background document http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~egyptdlw/background.html , a sampling of the participant papers [written prior to meeting] http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~egyptdlw/papers.html, a sampling of the presentations http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~egyptdlw/presentations.html

March 1st Meeting

Topic: An Extension of the Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Reading: Users and Information Resources: An Extension of the Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues into Usage and Transactions: by Michael Heaney, University of Oxford. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/model-ext/CD2-principles-v2-2.pdf

February 22nd Meeting

Topic: An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Reading: An Analytical Model of Collections and their Catalogues: a study carried out by Michael Heaney, University Library Services Directorate, University of Oxford. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/model-ext/intro.html

February 8th Meeting

Topic: Discussion on LIS cataloging and metadata education.
Session Leaders: Carole Palmer and Linda Smith
Background Reading: Cataloging and Metadata Education: A Proposal for Preparing Cataloging Professionals of the 21st Century: A Responce to Action Item 5.1 of the "Bibliographic Control of Web Resources: A Library of Congress Action Plan". Web version 2003. Ingrid Hsieh-Yee http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/CatalogingandMetadataEducation.pdf

February 1st Meeting

Topic: Discussion of inheritance relations in Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records model.
Session Leaders: Allen Renear and Yunseon Choi
Reading: "Some Conceptual Modeling Problems in FRBR" Allen Renear and Yunseon Choi Text of poster from ICKM 2005 http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/renear/ICKM06frbrR1.pdf
Background Reading: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, IFLA 1998. pp. 1-29 (through section 3.2) http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf
Optional Reading: "Bibliographic Entities." Elaine Svenonius, Chapter 3 in *Intellectual Foundations of Information Organization* MIT Press 2000.

January 25th Meeting

Topic: Digital Collections and Content Research team's open meeting: discussion of revisions to collection identity white paper
Session Leaders: Carole Palmer and Michael Twidale
Background Reading: Collection Definition in Digital Resourse Development: white paper https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zavalina/MDRT012506/collectionwp12-23.doc

January 18th Meeting

Topic: Discussion on a standard for Globally Unique Identifiers for Biology
Session Leader: Bryan Heidorn
Background Reading: TDWG - Globally Unique Identifiers http://wiki.gbif.org/guidwiki/wikka.php?wakka=HomePage

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December 1st Meeting

Topic: Adapting Metadata Design and Processing to Digital Library Functions and Services
Session Leader: Muriel Foulonneau
Background Reading: Muriel Foulonneau. "Adapting Metadata Design and Processing to Digital Library Functions and Services." Draft Nov. 2005. Available at: http://cicharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/documents/MetadataDLFunctions.doc
Related Papers: Muriel Foulonneau and Timothy W. Cole (in press). Strategies for reprocessing aggregated metadata. In 9th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL 2005, September 18-23, 2005, Vienna, Austria. (Proceedings Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science.) Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
B Stvilia, L Gasser, M Twidale, S Shreeves, T Cole, Metadata quality for federated collections, ICIQ04-9th International Conference on Information Quality, 2004 http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~gasser/papers/metadataqualitymit_v4-10lg.pdf
Karen Coyle, Catalogs, Card—and Other Anachronisms, The Journal of Academic Librarianship , Volume 31, Issue 1 , January 2005, Pages 60-62, http://www.kcoyle.net/jal1-05.html
Elaine Svenonius, The intellectual foundation of information organization, Cambridge MIT Press, 2000 – chapter 2 (available in NetLibrary)
SL Shreeves, EM Knutson, B Stvilia, CL Palmer, MB Twidale, TW Cole, Is ‘quality’metadata ‘shareable’metadata? The implications of local metadata practices for federated collections, Proceedings of the Association of College and Research Libaries, 2005

November 16th Meeting

Topic: IMLS Digital Collections Registry usability
Session Leader: Richard Urban
Background Reading: IMLS Digital Collections Registry http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/collections
Richard Urban "Collections Understanding and the IMLS Digital Collections Registry" DRAFT Nov. 14, 2005. Available at: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rjurban/www/CollectionsUnderstanding.rtf

October 26th Meeting

Topic: MODS Profile for DLF Aquifer Project
Session Leader: Sarah Shreeves
Background Reading: The latest draft of the profile is at: http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/sshreeve/www/MODS_Profile.doc
For more background you may want to take a closer look at MODS in general at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/

October 12th Meeting

Topic: Taxonomic Database Working Group
Session Leader: Bryan Heidorn
Background Reading: In this session we will look at two recent standards approved and under development in TDWG. These will include the Structure for Descriptive Data (SDD), Darwin Core and the federation protocol DigIR and ABCD.
Structure for Descriptive Data Tutorial (dated): http://160.45.63.11/Projects/TDWG-SDD/Primer/index.htm
Darwin Core: http://darwincore.calacademy.org/
DigIR: Requirements: http://digir.net/gen/requirements_0_92.html
Architecture http://digir.net/gen/architecture_1_0.gif
Access to Biological Collections Data: http://ww3.bgbm.org/abcddocs/AbcdIntroduction

September 28th Meeting

Topic: Collection Definition and Description
Session Leader: Carole Palmer and Ellen Knutson
Background Reading:Carole L. Palmer, Ellen M. Knutson, and Michael Twidale. Collection Definition in Digital Resource Development White Paper. Draft 21 September 2005.

September 14th Meeting

Topic: Describing Versions and Reproductions (one to one rule)
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Reading:Describing Versions and Reproductions section of the DLF Best Practices for Sharable Metadata document. Available at: http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DigitalTactileResource See August 22nd Meeting for a link to the full document.

August 22nd Meeting

Topic: DLF Best Practices for Sharable Metadata
Session Leader: Sarah Shreeves
Background Reading:The Digital Library Federation and the National Science Digital Library have been developing a set of best practices for both Open Archives Initiative (OAI) data provider implementations and for shareable metadata exposed through these data providers. See http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BestPracticesIntroduction for an introduction to this work.
Our main discussion document is: Best Practices for Shareable Metadata, DRAFT August 2005, a Word version is available here: http://comm.nsdl.org/download.php/653/ShareableMetadataBestPractices.doc
There's a wiki version linked here: http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PublicTOC

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April 14th Meeting

Topic: DCMI Abstract Model
Session Leader: Allen Renear
Background Reading: "Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Publishes DCMI Abstract Model" in Cover Pages. Available at: http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-03-21-a.html

March 31st Meeting

Topic: CLiMB
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Reading: Please see the CLiMB website, especially their final report. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/climb/

March 10th Meeting

Topic: VRA
Session Leader: Sarah Shreeves
Background Reading:Union Catalog of Art Images: Project page - http://gort.ucsd.edu/ucai/index.html
RLG Guidelines for Description of Cultural Materials: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=214

February 24th Meeting

Topic: Meeting with Jian Qin
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Reading:Jian Qin is a faculty member from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. This will be an opportunity for her to learn about the Digital Collections and Content project and for us to learn about her work on a domain conceptual model and perhaps other work on learning object metadata.
For background on Jian Qin's research please see her webpage at http://web.syr.edu/~jqin/
For background on the Digital Collections and Content project see: http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu

February 10th Meeting

Topic: VRA Cataloguing Cultural Objects
Session Leader: Tim Cole
Background Reading: VRA's Cataloguing Cultural Objects draft. Available at http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/index.html You can access the various parts of the documents from the pull-down menu on the upper right of the window. Please read the Introduction http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/A-Intro&Part1-5May2004.pdf and have a look at the Appendices http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/O-AppendicesEtc.-5May2004.pdf
"Cataloging Cultural Objects: The Dream of a Common Language" RLG TopShelf, January 2005. http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=336 (a very brief interview with one of the authors of CCO).
Elisa Lanzi (CCO Editor). "Cataloguing Cultural Objects: new guidelines for descriptive cataloging." Art Libraries Journal (2004, Vol. 29, no. 4).

February 3rd Meeting

Topic: DLESE Strand Map Service
Session Leader: Tim Cole
Background Reading: Sumner, Tamara et al. 2004. A Web Service Interface for Creating Concept Browsing Interfaces. D-Lib Magazine 10(11) Available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november04/sumner/11sumner.html
The SMS Metadata Scheme is available at: http://www.dlese.org/Metadata/strandmaps/
The SMS prototype servive is available at: http://preview.dlese.org/sms
As noted on the entry page for the prototype, you'll need the Adobe SVG viewer to use this site. Note: To start the prototype click on the "Browse Earth Concepts"link in the graphic to the upper right of the page. This will take you to: http://preview.dlese.org/sms/start

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December 2nd Meeting

Topic: Learning Object Metadata
Background Reading: Godby, Carol Jean. 2004."What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard?" Ariadne 41. Availalbe at: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/godby/#5
For background on SCORM see Advanced Distributed Learning. 2003."SCORM Overview" http://www.adlnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=scormabt

November 11th Meeting

Topic: Diffusion of Knowledge of Metadata Standards
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Reading: Carole Palmer Metadata Standards Adoption and Knowledge-Sharing [in PowerPoint] A presentation for ASIS&T annual meeting, Providence, RI.

October 28th Meeting

Topic: Metadata Education
Session Leader: Carole Palmer
Background Reading: Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid, "Cataloging and Metadata Education: A Proposal for Preparing Cataloging Professionals of the 21st Century" (report submitted to the ALCTS/ALISE Task Force in response to Action Item 5.1 of the "Bibliographic Control of Web Resources: A LIbrary of Congress Action Plan"). Final Report Dec. 2002, Web Version Apr. 2003. Available: www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/CatalogingandMetadataEducation.pdf
Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid, " Cataloging and Metadata Education in North American LIS Programs," Library Resources & Technical Services 48, no. 1 (2004): 48-58. Available through UofI Electronic Journals

October 14th Meeting

Topic: Metadata Quality
Session Leader: Mike Twidale
Background Reading: For background please see Stvilia, Besiki et al. Metadata Quality for Federated Collections. Available at:https://www-s.isrl.uiuc.edu/~stvilia/iq/iciq_144.pdf
Besiki also posted a quality dimensions table and scanned images of sample records with the quality problems. They can be found at: https://www-s.isrl.uiuc.edu/~stvilia/iq/MQDimensions.pdf

September 23rd Meeting

Topic: Abstraction and Abstract Models
Session Leader: Allen Renear
Background Reading: We will start by discussing the application of Dublin Core's creator property as presented here: http://rdfweb.org/topic/UsingDublinCoreCreator
For information on the Dublin Core Abstract Model see: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/abstract-model/

September 9th Meeting

Topic: Sets in OAI
Session Leader: Carole Palmer & Sarah Shreeves
Background Reading: For background please see Set Best Practices (a draft of best practices for DLF) at: http://oai-best.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SetPractices, and the following records that shows how the Library of Congress is using set tags to describe collections: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListSets.

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July 8th Meeting

The topic of discussion will be collections and their locations/services for comment back to the Dublin Core Collection Description Working Group.

What I'd like for us to look at are two issues that Pete Johnston has recently posed to the DC Collection Description Working Group:
1. to clarify the data model underpinning the DC CD AP and to establish whether (for both the physical and digital cases):
(a) we are treating services as a subtype of locations and describing a single relationship type between a collection and a location/service (which is the approach we've taken to date), or
(b) we are treating locations and services as distinct entities (and if so, we then need to decide whether we need to describe two distinct relationships between collection and location, and between collection and service)
2. to present whatever proposal(s) we come up with as a result of (1) in a form which
(a) can be generalised to types of resources other than collections
(b) addresses the potential for confusion with the current usage of dc:identifier
(c) is compatible with the definition and usage of dc:publisher

More background can be found here

June 22nd Meeting

We will talk about best practices for OAI data providers and service providers.

As the OAI protocol has become more widely adopted, some broad areas of concern have surfaced -- mainly through the documentation of service providers -- that would benefit from the documentation of best practices. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is convening a group to develop best practices and guidelines for both data providers and service providers. A DLF working group will have its first face-to-face meeting this summer. Working group goals include developing:

Best practices for OAI data provider implementations, including OAI identifier and datestamp practices, use of sets, use of descriptive containers, etc.
Best practices for creation of "shareable" or "interoperable" metadata to expose via the OAI protocol
Sharing mechanism for tools, strategies, etc for service providers

Also, below are two documents from the California Digital Library and University of Michigan respectively about some of the problems encountered by service (and data) providers.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/harvesting/bitter_harvest.html
http://www.kathagedorn.com/SP_issues.html

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May 6th Meeting

The focus for the discussion will the Digital Collection and Content project (http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu). The project team intends to submit a paper proposal to ACRL.

April 8th Meeting

Muriel Foulonneau will lead a discussion about her study on the use of OAI in the cultural heritage sector. See her description of the study below:

"On April 8th, at the metadata round table, I will present the study I made for the Open Archives Forum project in Europe. That project is intended to spread the use of the OAI protocol in Europe and is funded by the European Commission. The partners are technology-oriented (UKOLN in the UK, CNR-ISTI in Italy and Humbold University in Berlin). It has asked people in specific areas to examine the potential use of the protocol, notably in the cultural heritage sector. A first study had been led on the potential use of the protocol by archivists, then a lawyer made a study on IPR issues related to the use of the protocol, then I made, with the help of David Dawson, from the Council of Museums, Libraries and Archives in the UK, a study on the existing practices in the cultural heritage sector. We tried to identify the main issues for the use of the protocol in the heritage sector and how existing projects have coped with them. The user/functional bias means that it relates to both the applications devoted to data aggregation and the technical features of the protocol.

You can find it here http://www.oaforum.org/otherfiles/oaf_d48_cser3_foullonneau.pdf and the presentation I made in the Bath workshop last September http://www.oaforum.org/otherfiles/bath_foulonneau.ppt"

March 11th Meeting

Our topic for discussion will be metadata quality. Besiki Stvilia will give an overview of the quality assurance problems/challenges we face in the IMLS Digital Collection and Content Project, and our discussion will go from there.

As background please see: "The Continuum of METADATA Quality: Defining, Expressing, Exploiting" by Thomas R. Bruce and Diane I. Hillmann. Available at: http://content.nsdl.org/metadata_practice/hillmann_bruce_final.html

February 26th Meeting

We will be discussing the JISC/UKOLN meetings. There is the programme here: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/cdfocus-schema-forum/programme.html for the Collection Description Schema Focus meeting. If you take a look under the breakout sessions link, there are some of the general questions being considered.

For the JISC Terminology Forum take a look at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-terminology/programme.html. Some of the presentations are available here as well.

January 29th Meeting

The topic this week will be a discussion of "Digital LIbrary Aggregation Services" by Martha Brogan, available at: http://www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan/brogan2003.htm. We willalso take some time to discuss the schedule of topics.

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December 11th Meeting

Chris Prom, Assistant University Archivist, will discuss EAD.
Official EAD web site: http://www.loc.gov/ead
Bradley Westbrook. 2002. "Prospecting Virtual Collections" Journal of Archival Organization 1(1): 73-80. [PDF Version available through UI library online journals]

November 20th Meeting

We will continue reviewing the initial survey results from the DCC Project. How would you use a collection registry of IMLS funded digital collections?

November 6th Meeting

We will be reviewing initial survey results from the Digital Collections and Content Project. These results are the elements participants felt imporant for describing a collection.

October 9th Meeting

We will report back from the Dublin Core Collection Description Working Group meeting

September 25th Meeting

We will review the DC Collection Description Appication Profile.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/collection-application-profile/
Other Documents for Review
DC Collection Description working group: http://dublincore.org/groups/collections/
Archives of the working group listserv: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DC-COLLECTIONS.html
R. Heery and M. Patel. 2000. "Application profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas" Ariadne Issue 25 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/app-profiles/

September 11th Meeting

Continuation of our discussion on collection definition, with a focus on subcollections.

August 28th Meeting

Collection Definition.
Collection Definitions [in Word]. This documents pulls together several definitions from:
ICOM/CIDOC. 2002."Definition of the CIDOC object-oriented Conceptual Reference Model" version 3.4. http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/docs/cidoc_crm_version_3.4.rtf.
UKOLN CLD Online Tutorial http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/cdfocus-tutorial/intro.html
Johnston, P. & Robinson B. (2002) Collections and Collection Description. Collection Description Focus Briefing Paper. No. 1. Retrieved May 12 2003. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd focus/briefings/bp1/bp1.pdf
Lee, H. 2000. What is a collection? Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 51(12): 1106-1113.
Shreeves, S. and Cole, T. 2003. "Developing a Collection Registry for IMLS NLG Digital Collections" Poster proposal for DC2003.
And from interviews with DCC research participants.

Also for review
L. Hill, G. Janee, R Dolin, J. Free & M. Larsgaard. 1999. "Collection Metadata Solutions for Digital Library Applications." JASIS 50(13): 1169-1181.

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July 17th Meeting

We will discuss the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM). The CRM is a top-level ontology and proposed ISO standard for the semantic integration of cultural information. Their website is at http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr
Also review their latest working draft: http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/docs/cidoc_crm_version_3.4.rtf

June 25th Meeting

Dublin Core collection level description, specifically their collection type list, which can be found at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/types/

June 5th Meeting

Collection Level DescriptionShreeves & Cole "Developing a Collection Registry" [In Word]

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May 8th Meeting

Item level Metadata. The following are samples from Teaching With Digital ContentItem Level Metadata [in Excel]

April 24th Meeting

Collection Level Metadata: Review three Collections described in DCC Collection Level Metadata [in Excel]

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