Metadata Practices
On the Cutting Edge
May 20, 2004
Washington, DC
AGENDA:
Thursday May 20, 9:15am -4:30pm
8:30-9:15 Registration and Coffee
9:15-9:25 Welcome and
Introductions
9:25-10:00 Metadata Practice
and Direction: a Community Perspective (revised)
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC
10:00-10:30 Session 1
RSS: Really Simple Syndication - A Publisher's Perspective (revised)
Howard Ratner, Nature Publishing Group
10:30-10:45 Networking Break
10:45-noon Session 2: Publisher and Library Issues:
New Developments Relating to Linking Metadata
Chuck Koscher,
CrossRef
Metadata Standards for Managing and Discovering Image Collections
Oya Rieger, Cornell University Libraries
Addressing Metadata in the MPEG-21 and PDF-A ISO Standards (revised)
William G. LeFurgy, Library of Congress
1:00-2:15 Session 3: Digital Library Issues:
'M' is for Metadata: Emerging Standards from the Library of Congress:
Using MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) for Rich Descriptive Data
Rebecca Guenther, Library
of Congress
The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Morgan Cundiff, Library
of Congress
ONIX for Serials and the NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party for the Exchange of
Serials Subscription Information (revised)
Nathan Robertson, Johns Hopkins University Libraries
2:15-3:30 Session 4: Metadata
Quality and Interoperability
Metadata Interaction, Integration, and Interoperability
William Moen, University of North Texas
DSpace SIMILE: using semantic web technology for metadata support
MacKenzie Smith, MIT Libraries
Beyond Parsing: Metadata Quality Management (revised)
Bruce Rosenblum, Inera, Inc.
3:30-3:50 Networking Break
3:50-4:30 Emerging
Strategic Directions
Jenny
Walker, ExLibris-USA, a member of NISO's Standards Development
Committee (SDC)
will lead a lively and informative discussion
with attendees, other SDC members, and the day's speakers
to address your questions and opportunities for standards
and best practices.