At the forthcoming Dublin Core Conference (DC-2010
), to be held 20-22 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, USA, there will be a meeting of the DCMI Registry Community and Task Group. It will take place on on Wednesday 20 October, 9:00am – 12:30pm. The meeting’s agenda is already available.
Archive for the ‘Metadata’ Category
What Metadata Is Really Useful?
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be speaking about the work of the Metadata Forum at the CETIS event What metadata is really useful? to be held in London on 18 October 2010. The event will focus on what data we have (or could acquire) to answer the question of what metadata is really required to support the discovery, selection, use and management of educational resources. More information about the Metadata Forum is available.
JISC Managing Research Data Programme: SageCite
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010The Sagecite Project will be joining other projects funded recently under the JISC Managing Research Data Programme in the Citing, linking, integrating and publishing research data (CLIP) strand for a Launch Workshop organised by JISC.
Learning Repositories in Agriculture Food & Environment (AgLR 2010)
Thursday, October 7th, 2010Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be participating in the e-conference Learning Repositories in Agriculture Food & Environment: Quality Promises and Considerations in Learning Repositories and Portals (AgLR 2010) which takes place 6-20 October 2010. The e-conference is hosted by the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force (AgLR-TF) and the e-Agriculture Community. As part of her work with the Metadata Forum, Stephanie will be joint moderator, along with Jackie Wickham of the Repository Support Project (RSP), of two discussions about the use of metadata in learning repositories. The e-conference is open to anyone with an interest in this area. Details on how to join in and further information on the topics to be discussed are available.
The Case of AACR2 versus RDA
Friday, September 24th, 2010The paper The Case of AACR2 Versus RDA by Ann Chapman of UKOLN has been published in the latest issue of Legal Information Management, v.10(3) 2010 (pp.210-213). In her paper, Ann examines the introduction of the Resource Description and Access cataloguing code to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and explains why the latter were becoming unsuitable for the digital age whilst RDA has been specifically developed to deal with all types of media. The paper is available in print and electronic formats.
The Metadata Forum at RepoFringe 2010
Thursday, August 26th, 2010Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be running a meeting of the Metadata Forum in a round-table session at RepoFringe 2010, in Edinburgh, 2-3 September. The meeting is open to anyone who is in Edinburgh and has an interest in metadata! For updates on time, location, and evolving agenda, see the Metadata Forum blog. If you have thoughts, ideas or questions you would like to contribute but can’t attend in person, please leave a comment on the blog, email Stephanie direct, or use Twitter to tweet @metadataforum.
Practical Metadata for Repository Administrators
Monday, August 16th, 2010Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN gave a short presentation on the basics of metadata, followed by a workshop session on the practical application of structured metadata and collaborative tagging within institutional repositories, at the RSP Workshop for Repository Administrators. The event was held at Oxford University on 11 August 2010. Slides are available via the RSP website.
SageCite Project Funded to Test a Framework for Citation of Network Models
Friday, August 6th, 2010SageCite, funded by JISC through the Managing Research Data Programme, will develop and test a Citation Framework of network models of disease and associated data, linking data, methods and publications. The domain of bio-informatics provides a case study, and the project builds on existing infrastructure and tools: myExperiment and the Sage Commons. Citations of complex network models of disease and associated data will be embedded in leading publications, exploring issues around the citation of data including the compound nature of datasets, description standards and identifiers. The project has international links with the Concept Web Alliance and Bio2RDF. The partners are UKOLN, the University of Manchester and the British Library (representing DataCite), with contributions from Nature Genetics and PLOS.