The Seminars will take place on Friday 26 September 2008 from 09:00 to 17:00
Seminar A: User Generated Metadata: Connecting the Communities - Karen Coyle, Jochen Topf, Andreas Hotho
During the recent years several projects like Wikipedia, LibraryThing, and OpenStreetmaps have emerged on the Web that enable volunteers to collect and create structured data such as bibliographies, encyclopaedic factsheets, geodata etc. However connections and exchange between different projects is still limited to seperated initiatives. Therefore Wikimedia Germany wants to bring together projects and communities on a workshop on user generated metadata. To enhance collaboration, we want to share experiences in the creation and management of communities and metadata. Standards and tools to simplify the exchange and connection with other institutions will be discussed as well as aspects of quality, rights, and privacy.
The workshop is planned to consist of one session where several projects are shortly presented and another session in form of a moderated podium of all projects to deeper discuss common general issues: How can we best connect and reuse user generated metadata among communities? Which data silos must be opened? What are the limits of cooperation? How can sustainability be established in dynamic communites? etc.
Seminar B: Using the TEI for Documenting Describing Documents - Laurent Romary, Lou Burnard, Werner Wegstein
The seminar will give both an overview of the principles, architecture and component of the recent edition of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines as well as concrete illustration of its application in specific scientific fields. The suggested program would be organized as follows:
An Introduction to TEI Principles - Lou Burnard and Laurent Romary
- Overview of history, origins, context, of the TEI as a standards initiative. How it differs from (and resembles) other standards initiatives. Why it is of interest to the DC community. Current scope and coverage. LB 40 mins.
- TEI Technical infrastructure. ODD. Modules and how to combine them. TEI Header and bibliography. Typical TEI toolchains and working environment. LR 40 mins.
questions/break
Using the TEI in a Philological Context - Werner Wegstein and Lou Burnard
- TEI philological applications (1): historical dictionaries. Literary texts. Casebooks, showing how TEI is used in real life projects e.g. Campe dictionary, Würzburg Jean Paul Edition, parallel corpora. WW 40 mins.
- TEI philological applications (2): digital editions: facilities for building and integrating manuscript descriptions, transcriptions, metadata, images. LB 40 mins.
Discussion
Seminar C: PREMIS Metadata Tutorial: An Overview of the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata with Implementation Case Studies - Markus Enders, Olaf Brandt
The PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) Working Group was formed in June 2003 as an international group whose goal was to define a standard set of able, core preservation metadata, with guidelines and recommendations for management and use. The PREMIS Working Group released a Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata in May 2005. This developed into the first data dictionary for implementing preservation metadata and is now known as PREMIS. A PREMIS Editorial Committee was established in 2007 and the first revision was issued in April 2008 as the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.0.
The PREMIS data dictionary is the foundation by which Metadata can be generated to play a vital role in enabling the effective management, discovery, and re-usability of digital information. Preservation metadata provides provenance information, documents preservation activity, identifies technical features, and aids in verifying the authenticity of digital objects. PREMIS is a core set of metadata elements recommended for use in all preservation repositories regardless of the type of materials archived and the preservation strategies employed.
This one day tutorial provides an introduction to PREMIS and its data model, a walk-through of the Data Dictionary, examples of PREMIS metadata in real situations, and implementation considerations, particularly using PREMIS with XML and with the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS). It will also explore strategies for using controlled vocabularies with the PREMIS semantic units. It includes an implementers‘ panel and will also provide an opportunity for participants to share their own implementation issues and experiences.
Seminar D: Ontology Design and Interoperability - Sam Oh
This workshop focuses its attention on ontology design for semantic interoperability. The participants will receive overviews of ISO Topic Maps and W3C RDF/OWL ontology languages. They will also learn ontology design steps and how to develop sound ontology schemas using Topic Maps and RDF/OWL. Protégé editor will be used for designing RDF/OWL ontology and Ontopoly for Topic Maps.
