Electronic Records and Digital Preservation

Electronic records and digital preservation catch your fancy? If you're an archivist or historian or just plain anyone worried about the digital future, The Ten Thousand Year Blog is for you. The title is inspired by physicist and speculative fiction author Gregory Benford's Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia (01999). My review of this book appears in the Association of Canadian Archivists' journal Archivaria no. 52 (Fall 02001). David Mattison. If you wonder about the "0" in front of the years, see my post for 02002 11 11 about the Long Now Foundation.

Wednesday, February 05, 2003

CORES Schema Creation and Registration Workshop

CORES Schema Creation and Registration Workshop
SZTAKI, Budapest, 6-7 March 2003

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/cores/intro.html

This project has been funded by the European Community.

The workshop will provide an introduction to the use of RDF to describe metadata vocabularies in the form of machine-understandable schemas. It will focus on the publication of these schemas in the CORES Schema Registry. Practical sessions will allow participants to learn to use the CORES Schema Creation Tool to prepare schemas and submit them to the Registry, and to navigate the schemas submitted via the Registry's Web interface. The workshop is targeted at those with an interest in creating and managing metadata vocabularies. Workshop participants should be familiar with a specific metadata element set which they can use as a basis for input into the schema creation tool. Detailed knowledge of RDF Schema semantics and RDF/XML syntax is not required, as the schema encoding will be generated by the tool. For participants wishing to gain a working understanding of RDF and its application to the description of metadata vocabularies, the workshop will provide a good opportunity to focus on some key issues, without the need to focus on syntactic details.

The Cost of Registering for the workshop is ?70.00 (Pounds Sterling) The delegate fee includes full attendance at the workshop, refreshments and lunch on both days, dinner on 6th March and workshop materials.

For registration information see
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/

Sara Hassen
Events and Marketing Manager
UKOLN
University of Bath
BA2 7AY
+ 44 (0) 1225 38 6256
+ 44 (0) 1225 38 5105
www.ukoln.ac.uk

[Source: DIGLIB, "CORES Schema Creation and Registration Workshop", 5 February 02003]

6:56:30 PM

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Call for Papers: DC-2003: Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice--Metadata Research & Applications, University of Washington, Seattle, 28 September to 2 October 02003. For information on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), visit http://www.dublincore.org [Source: DIGLIB, "DC 2003 CFP Seattle, WA USA", 5 February 02003].
6:53:33 PM

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Reinvigorating CIMI

John Perkins, CIMI Executive Director, announced via mailing lists and through the CIMI Web site, organizational changes to reinvigorate its mission and better serve the museum community. One area of interest to electronic records and digital preservation is in CIMI's open standards work, which with this announcement becomes an even more open process. For details visit the CIMI Announcement. [Source: PACS-L, "Changes at CIMI", February 5, 02003]
6:48:04 PM

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Open Content Network, and RSS with p2p

rss and p2p. While we're working marrying p2p file distribution and RSS enclosures, more opportunities present themself. The Open Content Network looks interesting. [Source: Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog].

When I visited the Open Content Network front page on Feburary 5, 02003, I saw this announcement that might have some applicability to the work of digital archivists and preservationists:

Tree Hash EXchange Spec Released
The first public draft of the THEX Specification is now available. This specification defines a format for exchanging hash tree information which is used to verify files in distributed content delivery networks.

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