| Description
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| SDIC Title
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CEN ISSS MMI-Dublin Core Workshop |
| Acronym
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MMI-DC |
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Mission and Objectives
| Workshop objectives
The Dublin Core has become an important part of the emerging infrastructure of the Internet. Many communities are eager to adopt a common core of semantics for resource description, and the Dublin Core has attracted broad ranging international and interdisciplinary support for this purpose.
The MMI-DC Workshop has succeeded in establishing itself as a recognised player in relation to metadata from a Dublin Core perspective, and plays a visible role in the promotion of a Dublin Core based metadata set as a common core to applications that use metadata. Through its liaisons, the MMI-DC Workshop plays an important role in bridging various communities.
The Workshop offers the opportunity to assist a co-ordinated approach towards metadata within the European Union, by establishing, at a cross-sector level and in support of existing and future European (IST and other) projects, an open forum in which metadata standards related issues get addressed.
The detailed objectives are as follows:
- to be a European forum where an overview of various sectoral metadata approaches is kept; target sectors include Education and Training, Geographic Information, Government, Libraries, Cultural Heritage, Statistical/Social Science, Multimedia;
- to give visibility to metadata activities taking place in Europe and at a global level;
- to offer a forum to IST projects and other projects within Europe to explore the value of metadata, in particular Dublin core, for their project (and vice-versa);
- to offer a forum where various (European) metadata initiatives can come together, exploring possible synergies;
- to monitor ongoing important developments (European and global) related to metadata (DCMI, W3C, ) with the objective to give user advice where required;
- to co-ordinate input to development of specific requirements for Europe; to provide guidance on the use of Dublin core.
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| Mandate
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Information discovery is what Dublin Core metadata "data about data" are all about. The Dublin Core metadata element set, for years the leading de facto standard, has during 2003 also obtained a formal recognition of its leading role through its publication as IS 15836.
Internationally, work resides within the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). The MMI-DC Workshop, at the European level, provides an open forum in which Dublin Core metadata standards related issues get addressed. The Workshop's activities are complementary to the work done within the international DCMI context.
The workshop has already tackled issues such as eGovernment and GI Metadata though crosswalking with ISO 19115. The Workshop will go on to develop more in these areas of metadata and seeks close colaboration with other metadata domains to ensure interoperability
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| Formal Mandate
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European Commission
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| Main Activities
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The Workshop finalised a number of CEN Workshop Agreements and reports:
CWA15244 - General guidance for the deployment of Dublin Core metadata (to supersede CWA 13988: 2003)
CWA15245 - EU eGovernment Metadata Framework (see also CWA14859 and 14860)
CWA15246 - Guidance for the deployment of the EU eGovernment Metadata Framework (see also CWA14859 and 14860)
CWA15247 - Guidance for the deployment of Dublin Core metadata in Corporate environments
CWA15248 - Guidelines for machine-processable representation of Dublin Core Application Profiles
CWA15249 - Guidance for naming, versioning, evolution and maintenance of element declarations and Application Profiles
A report identifying of metadata issues enabling support for accessibility and mulitlinguality - download final report
Recent Deliverables:
CWA14855 - Dublin Core Application Profile guidelines
CWA 14856 - Guidance material for mapping between Dublin Core and ISO in the Geograpic Information domain
CWA 14857 - Mapping between Dublin Core and IS 19115, "Geographic Information : Metadata"
CWA 14858- Dublin Core Spatial Application Profile
CWA 14859 - Guidance on the use of metadata in eGovernment
CWA 14860 - Dublin Core eGovernment Application Profiles
Early deliverables:
CWA 13874: endorsing Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Version 1.1 is now withdrawn now that it has been published as ISO 15836
The metadata observatory that was developed by WS/MMI-DC during 1999-2001 is no longer maintained. Its contents will be integrated into the MetaGuide at the State and University Library Gottingen, Germany.
CWA 13988: 2003 containing "Guidance on use of Dublin Core in Europe"
These CWAs can also be downloaded from the MMI-DC CWA download area
Note: the name MMI-DC comes from the fact that this Workshop was the successor of the MMI Workshop (Metadata for Multimedia Information) which was active in the period 1998-1999 and which dealt with metadata more generally.
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| SDIC URL
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| Membership
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CEN is made of of all CEN member states. MMI-DC membership is on the following address http://www.cenorm.be/cenorm/businessdomains/businessdomains/isss/activity/wsmmi.asp |
| Typology
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Regional Thematic |
| Comments
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While CEN member states cover a larger geographical area that the EU. MMI-DC tries to ensure that a global perspective is taken on all its activities for both future proofing and ensuring the best of activities are taken into account.
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| Contact information for SDIC |
| Contact Person |
Martin Ford
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| Organisation |
CEN ISSS MMI-DC Workshop |
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Active member and official for establishing the registration
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| Address |
CEN |
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| Tel |
+39 3407 245144 |
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| PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT |
| Which role(s) do you foresee for the SDIC in INSPIRE development |
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allocate experts to Drafting Teams
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submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams
- register a project to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules
- collect and describe user requirements related to Environmental policies
- participate in the review process
- implement pilot projects to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules
- contribute to cost/benefit analysis of the draft Implementing Rules
- contribute to awareness raising and training
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| Area of work/experience |
| Geographic Domain: |
Europe
Description of geographic extent
Metadata, eGovernment, Accessibility
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| Societal Sector
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All |
| Specific Expertise |
Metadata  |
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| INSPIRE Data Themes
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| Title |
User | Producer | Coordinator |
| Coordinate reference systems |
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| Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development
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CWA14855 - Dublin Core Application Profile guidelines
CWA 14856 - Guidance material for mapping between Dublin Core and ISO in the Geograpic Information domain
CWA 14857 - Mapping between Dublin Core and IS 19115, "Geographic Information : Metadata"
CWA 14858- Dublin Core Spatial Application Profile
CWA 14859 - Guidance on the use of metadata in eGovernment
CWA 14860 - Dublin Core eGovernment Application Profiles |
| Primary Business
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Creating of CEN WOrkshop Agreements CWA |
| Environmental application domains
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eGovernment metadata |
