The University community is invited to a talk by Carl Lagoze, from the
Digital Library Research group at Cornell University. The talk will be in
Newcomb Hall Ballroom at 11:00 on Wednesday, April 11. Lagoze has long been
active with research into issues related to digital libraries. His group
has been very involved with repository development, first by developing the
Dienst architecture, which was used for the Networked Computer Science
Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL), more recently by developing the
Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA) which
the University of Virginia Library is using as the basis of the digital
library system that they are developing. He has also been very involved
with the development of the Dublin Core metadata system and the Open
Archives Initiative. His abstract for the talk follows. This event is
sponsored by the Supporting Digital Scholarship project, funded by the
Andrew Mellon Foundation.
Metadata Musings
"Order making" (a term borrowed from David Levy) is fundamental to the
task of creating usable information environments. Digital libraries may
not control and collect content like conventional libraries, but they
will certainly organize and structure their information space through
the creation and administration of various forms of metadata. This talk
will cover various facets of our metadata research at Cornell including
a description and critical analysis of the status of the Dublin Core, our
attempt to create an event-based conceptual framework for more complex
metadata descriptions, and an overview of our efforts to create a
deployable infrastructure for metadata harvesting in the Open Archives
Initiative.
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Thornton Staples
tls@virginia.edu
Voice: 804-924-3975
Fax: 804-924-1431
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