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February 2003 meeting

OCLC Research : People : Members Council - Research Interest Groups : February 2003 meeting

Digital Libraries Research Interest Group

Meeting minutes (Word:35K/2pp.)

Monday, February 10, 2003

OCLC Smith Building

9:00-9:20	Overview of OCLC Research Programme (PPT:442K/9 slides)	Lorcan Dempsey
9:20-9:50	Non-MARC Cataloging Standards Overview (PPT:914K/17 slides) (TEI & EAD; MODS, METS, XML-based MARC; XML as a hub)	Eric Childress
9:50-10:05	DCMI State of the Art and Future Directions (PPT:98K/10 slides)	Stu Weibel
10:05-10:15	Discussion1: What if anything, are the organizations you work with doing with non-MARC metadata? How is your library interfacing with these types of metadata? What is anything, is your institution doing with XML-based metadata (including METS, MODS)?

Tuesday, February 11

Marriott Northwest Hotel, Dublin Ballrooms 1 and 2
(Joint meeting with the Cataloging and Metadata Interest Group)

8:30-8:35	Brief Introductions
8:30-9:15	Web Services (PPT:126K/9 slides) What are web services? Why might libraries care? What is OCLC working on?	Lorcan Dempsey
	XWork ISBN Web Service (PPT:735K/8slides)	Thom Hickey
	Terminology Services (PPT:334K/13slides)	Diane Vizine-Goetz
	A Web service for transforming metadata schemas (PPT:268K/10slides)	Jean Godby
9:15-9:45	Discussion What, if anything, is your institution doing with XML-based metadata (including METS, MODS)? For metadata created in any format (including legacy metadata), do you intend to transform it to another, and why? If so, between which formats? How will this be accomplished?	Paul Gherman, facilitator

Advance Reading

OCLC Newsletter November/December 2003 (PDF:2405K/28pp.)
OCLC Office of Research Metadata Switch project Web site
Roy Tennant, Digital Libraries-What To Know About Web Services
Heather Kreger, Web Services Conceptual Architecture (PDF:318K/41pp.)

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