The workshop will take place in room HSL 527 of the Health Sciences Library building:
[directions] [details on the room] [Google Map].
All standard presentation devices will be available.


Schedule

[9:00 – 9:20]

• Workshop goals, methodology, and desired outcomes
• Brief overview of Tools: State-of-the-Art

  — Jane Greenberg and Thomas Severiens, Workshop Co-Chairs

1. ERC "Kernel" approach to metadata and web retrieval service

• A Tiny Retrieval Protocol: THUMP and Kernel Metadata, Presenters: John Kunze, Preservation Technologist for the California Digital Library, and Kevin A. Gamiel, Research Programmer, Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Implementation of Application Profiles in CONTENTdm, Presenter: Claire Cocco, Product Manager, DiMeMa, Inc.
• Options for Expanding the Scope and Integration of Metadata in Today's Digital Library (III Millennium's XML Harvester and MetaData Builder), Presenter: Katja Moos, Customer Sales Consultant, Innovative Interfaces Inc.

1. Facets and Metadata Search

• Faceted Navigation of User-Generated Metadata, Presenter: Brad Allen, Founder and CTO of Siderean Software, Inc.

• Usage of RDF in Web Services, Presenter: Charles McCathieNevile, Standards and Specifications Specialist, Opera Software
• Semantic-Web Techniques for Science Portals, Presenter: Thomas Severiens, Associate Researcher and Project Manager, University of Osnabrück, Germany

• Evaluating Metadata from Different Perspectives, Presenter: Anne Diekema, Research Professor, Syracuse University
• Techniques for Automatic Metadata Assignment and Evaluation, Presenter: Jason Scheirer, Software Developer, University of California, Riverside, iVia/DataFountains project

Selected presentations of metadata tools, including DL/metadata management tools. Presenters: Software developers and companies. List of Exhibitors

We have 11 Exhibitors, but there is room for a few more. Interested exhibitors should submit a brief abstract about the functionalities and special features of their application to Thomas Severiens: severiens AT mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de, or Jane Greenberg: janeg AT ils.unc.edu. All presenters will display their applications in an open setting. Workshop participants will be able to roam the exhibition space and view applications as well as dialog with other workshop attendees.

A discussion on improving communication in the metadata tool community. Attendees will break-out into smaller groups and then join together as a unified group to address a series of targeted questions compiled by the Workshop’s Advisory Committee. Questions will target means for sharing evaluation methods and improving communication within the metadata/DL tool community. Questions will be disseminated to all participants prior to the workshop, and posted on the workshop website.

Discussion facilitators:

• Jane Greenberg, Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Eva Mendez, Assistant Professor, Library and Information Sciences Department, University Carlos III of Madrid