SCHEMAS Forum for Metadata Schema Implementers

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SCHEMASForum for Metadata Schema Implementers

• Workshop 3 Introduction
• SCHEMAS Workshop, Budapest, 10-11 May 2001
• Makx Dekkers, mail_at_makxdekkers.com

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SCHEMAS objectives

• Who?
• Metadata schema designers
• Projects under the IST programme (KAIII) and
  national initiatives
• What for?
• Information, guidance and tools for description
  of Web resources of all kinds
• Helping designers to use what is already there

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SCHEMAS activites

• Information provision
• Metadata Watch Reports
• Standards Framework Reports
• Information and guidance material
• Workshops
• Registry
• Schemas, application profiles, people, projects,
  standards, tools, guidelines

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Metadata Watch

• Four reports published (Apr, Jul, Sep, Dec 00,
  May 2001)
• Correspondents
• Academic Michael Day
• Audiovisual Annemieke de Jong
• Education Erik Duval
• Publishing Laurie Causton
• Research Tom Baker

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Activities covered

• 48 activities, e.g.
• Academic DESIRE, Renardus, ROADS
• Audiovisual P-Meta, TV-Anytime
• Cultural Heritage CEDARS, MALVINE, NEDLIB, OAI
• Education CEN/ISSS WS/LT, DC Ed, LOM
• Environmental Information ETC/CDS
• Geographic Information ETeMII, LaClef
• Publishing DOI, EBX, EPICS, Indecs

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Standards Framework

• Two reports published (Sep 2000, May 2001)
• 22 activities, e.g.
• Basic ISO 11179, RDF
• Models IFLA, CIDOC, OAIS, Indecs
• Cross-domain Dublin Core
• Domain-specific e.g. EPICS, DOI, MPEG7, SMPTE,
  MARC, EAD, IMS, LOM, CERIF, FGDC, GILS, GELOS

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Watch and Frameworknext steps

• Load all information into database
• Look at overlap between Metadata Watch and
  Standards Framework
• Concentrate on activity records and expert
  reviews, synthesis reporting
• Update guidelines for correspondents in order to
  align depth and quality

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Workshops

• Two reports published
• Third Workshop Budapest 11-12 May 2001 Managing
  schemas in a multilingual Semantic Web
• Fourth Workshop The Hague 30 Nov. 2001 Best
  practice for publishing and sharing
  metadata schemas

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Registry

• Registry Prototype
• Phase 1 HTML Registry, October 2000
• Phase 2 RDF Registry currently operational, but
  needs additional work
• Schemas/application profiles and activity reports
• Multilingual aspects, semantics and controlled
  vocabularies under discussion now

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Information Services

• Changed focus from Web-based Training to
  Information Services
• User survey January 2001
• Mailing list population 73 orgs, 17 countries
• Response 22 of 92 subscribers (24)
• Scenario building February-April 2001
• Small panel covering various dimensions
• Interviewed 5 out of 6 selected panel members

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Survey results

• Equal representation from managers, librarians,
  researchers, software developers
• 81 of audience has little to medium experience
• Interoperability issues are the most important
• Four major domains of interest cultural
  heritage, education, research, academic two
  minor publishing and audio-visual
• Two main types of material Text and Collections
  second priority Image, Sound, Interactive,
  Dataset
• FP5 60 - non-FP5 40

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Scenario results

• Important aspects
• Domain perspective
• One-stop-shop for standards
• Practical information, e.g. mappings
• Active role for mailing list
• Guidance on RDF (why and how)
• Information about tools
• Find and register controlled vocabularies
• Glossary of terms as used by SCHEMAS

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Next steps

• Provision of consistent and user-friendly user
  interface for all components (schemas, activity
  reports, documents)
• Definition of documentation (from external
  sources or written by SCHEMAS partners)
• Production of content (guides, glossary, FAQ,
  papers)
• Feedback from audience

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Workshop Day 1

• Welcome and introduction
• SCHEMAS and the Semantic Web Tom Baker
• Multilinguality, Shigeo Sugimoto, University of
  Library and Information Science, Japan
• Lunch
• Multilingual Knowledge Management as a Strategy
  to Defeat Poverty and Hunger, Steve Katz,
  WAICENT/FAO of the UN

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Workshop Day 1

• Schemas for Multilingual Resources, Gerhard
  Budin, ISLE Project
• Discussion
• Breakout One Multilingual implementations and
  typology of schemas (basic and translated
  namespace schemas, application profiles)
• Breakout reporting
• Dinner

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Workshop Day 2

• Managing schemas
• Manjula Patel, UKOLN
• Vivian Bliss, Microsoft Knowledge Network Group
• Neil Evans-Mude, EASEL Project
• Roberto Trabucchi, KOD Project
• Breakout Two Namespace schemas and controlled
  vocabularies
• Breakout reporting
• Conclusions

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Workshop objectives

• Explore the link between metadata schemas and the
  Semantic Web
• Explore multilingual issues related to metadata
  schemas, including multilingual vocabularies
• Share experience on managing metadata schemas
• Identify common problems and start exploring
  solutions through open discussion

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SCHEMASForum for metadata schema implementers

• Workshop 3 Introduction
• SCHEMAS Workshop, Budapest, 10-11 May 2001
• Makx Dekkers, mail_at_makxdekkers.com