Talk by Carl Lagoze

From: Thornton Staples (tls@virginia.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 06 2001 - 08:42:24 EDT

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    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
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