Dublin Core Metadata—Exploration for Memory
Institutions
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As the mainstream Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
progressed, RLG was an early explorer of the impact of the Dublin Core
on the practices of research institutions such as libraries, museums,
and archives. Would they make use of Dublin Core? In what ways might
they use it? Would it change any of their processes—or merely
add to them?
In 1997 RLG hosted a "Metadata Summit" to
explore these topics. Since then, we have continued to be involved in
significant efforts to advance the Dublin Core from concept to
practice—such as the best practices guide developed by CIMI
on behalf of the museum community and the DCMI Libraries Working Group
discussions to create an application profile for libraries' use of the
Dublin Core.
Participants
Twenty-three invited participants attended the summit
meeting; these included individuals chosen because they could either
represent or address concerns of one or more research communities or
standards efforts. Since many participants "wore multiple hats," each
was asked to ensure representation for at least one particular
community. Those communities are indicated in parentheses below.
Those named in italics were the meeting planners.
Murtha Baca (Categories for
the Description of Works of Art)
Project Manager, Standards and Research Databases
Getty Information Institute
Nancy Brodie (National
Library of Canada, Government Information Locator Service)
Information Resource Management
National Library of Canada
Joseph Busch (general
museum community)
Program Manager
Getty Information Institute
John Byrum
(Library of Congress)
Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division
Library of Congress
Sherman Clarke (Visual
Resources Association)
Head, Original Cataloging
New York University
Jim Coleman (Text Encoding
Initiative)
Head, Academic Computing for the Humanities
Stanford University
Stephen Davis
(Unable to attend)
Director, Library Systems, Columbia University
Michael Fox (Encoded
Archival Description)
Head of Processing
Minnesota Historical Society
Peter Graham (TEI/Center
for Electronic Texts in the Humanities)
Associate University Librarian
Rutgers University
Dianne Hillman (National
Digital Library Federation)
Olin Library
Cornell University
Sherry Kelley (Dublin Core
Task Force of the ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Access and
Description)
Head, Cataloging Services Department
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Lynn Marko (Committee on
Institutional Cooperation; National Digital Library Federation)
Head, Cataloging
University of Michigan
Sally McCallum
(MARC)
Chief, MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress
Janet McCue (library
technical processing community)
Head, Technical Services Division
Mann Library
Cornell University
John Perkins (Consortium
for Computer Interchange of Museum Information)
Executive Director
Consortium for Computer Interchange of Museum Information
Cecelia Preston (Coalition
for Networked Information)
Preston & Lynch
Merrilee Proffitt (American
Heritage Project)
Computer Resource Specialist, Library
University of California, Berkeley
Margaretta Sander
(Facilitator)
Consortium for Computer Interchange of Museum Information
Lyn Elliot Sherwood
(Canadian Heritage Information Network)
Director General
Canadian Heritage Information Network
Joan Swanekamp (ALCTS
Committee on Cataloging: Access and Description)
Head, Cataloging Department
Yale University
Don Thornbury (library
technical processing community)
Head, Catalog Division
Princeton University
Stuart Weibel
(Dublin Core)
Consulting Research Scientist
OCLC
Robin Wendler (National
Digital Library Federation Metadata Task Group)
Bibliographic Analyst
Harvard University
Robert Wolven (preservation
community)
Director of Bibliographic Control
Columbia University
Jennifer Younger
(unable to attend)
Assistant Director for Technical Services, Ohio State University
RLG staff members participating:
Willy Cromwell-Kessler
Ricky Erway
Robin Dale
Ed Glazier
Karen Smith-Yoshimura
Anne Van Camp
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