Stuart L. Weibel, Ph.D.

Consulting Research Scientist

I have worked in OCLC Research since 1985, during which time I have managed projects in the area of automated cataloging, automated document structure analysis, electronic publishing, persistent identifiers, and metadata.

I was a founding member of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) and have also served on program and organizational committees for the Internet Society, the European Conference on Digital Libraries, the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries. I have also served as both a reviewer and an external evaluator for the National Science Foundation Digital Library Initiative.

My participation with Eric Miller in the Internet Engineering Task Force working group on Uniform Resource Names led to the development of the PURL system at OCLC.

Since 1995 I have organized and led the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative workshop series, an international consensus building activity that develops and supports cross-disciplinary resource discovery standards.

Weblog

• Weibel Lines: Ruminations on libraries and Internet standards

Presentations

• Making Identifiers Concrete (so library places and spaces don't have to be) (.ppt: 4.0MB/41 slides)
  VALA2008 14th Annual Biennial Conference and Exhibition, 5-7 February 2008, Melbourne (Australia)
• Building Web Scale for Libraries (.ppt: 8.5MB/109 slides) (Given on behalf of Robin Murray, VP Global Product Management.)
  VALA2008 14th Annual Biennial Conference and Exhibition, 5-7 February 2008, Melbourne (Australia)
• Information Trends in Libraries: Get More Value from Data, Give More Value to Users, Get Users Involved (.ppt: 1.4MB/27 slides)
  XXIII CBBD: Congresso Brasileiro de Biblioteconomia, Documentação e Ciência da Informação, July 9, 2007, Brasilia, DF (Brazil)
• Dublin Core Metadata Tutorial (.ppt: 2.5 MB/89 slides)
  Pre-conference workshop, XXIII CBBD: Congresso Brasileiro de Biblioteconomia, Documentação e Ciência da Informação, July 9, 2007, Brasilia, DF (Brazil)

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