[DDI-SRG] Dublin Core Conference

[Joachim Wackerow]

I forgot one thing:

One person mentioned that the Directory Interchange Format (DIF) is 
still heavily at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam.

Is somebody aware that DIF is used in other places, where DDI can play a 
role? Is a crosswalk from DIF to DDI an issue?

Achim


DIF
http://gcmd.nasa.gov/User/difguide/difman.html
(NASA standard, last adapted in 2004 to ISO 19115)

Joachim Wackerow wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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