[DDI-SRG] Dublin Core Conference

[Joachim Wackerow]

Last week I was on the Dublin Core conference in Berlin. I presented a 
poster on DDI and distributed papers on DDI. Several people were really 
interested. For some people DDI seems to be acknowledged as standard for 
social science data. It seems to be important to provide more 
information in future, that DDI can be used to document other kind of 
data as well, when the structure and the requirements are similar to 
social science data. A software developer was interested in the 
questionnaire part. Other people focused on bibliographic data are just 
learning that Dublin Core is not the answer to all areas and begin to 
recognize that in other areas other metadata formats are required.

A workshop on "Metadata for Scientific Datasets" took place, organized
by Jane Greenberg (School of Information and Library (SILS) Metadata
Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Due
to other appointments I had no time to participate. Robin Rice from the
Edinburgh University Data Library participated. One idea was to form a
Dublin Core community on this subject. I offered to be a contact person
to DDI respectively to name somebody other from the DDI Alliance.

Robin told me, that the workshop had ca. 30 people. There was enthusiasm 
for starting up a working group. Jane is going to arrange it through the 
appropriate governance. Robin promoted DDI in saying that "DDI is the 
answer" and gave out some handouts.

The presentations will go up on the UNC website for the session.

Achim


International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
http://dc2008.de/

Workshop
http://dc2008.de/programme/workshops#Workshop16
http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/sci_metadata

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata 
Applications, 22-26 September 2008
http://www.univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/content/list.php?q=dublin+core&cat=result&details=isbn-978-3-940344-49-6
One page on DDI, p. 206.
This text draws heavily on other already published documents.