OpenWEMI: The Concepts of Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item
Karen Coyle
This talk will cover two recent Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) projects. The first is OpenWEMI, a version of the library community's model "work, expression, manifestation, item" that is abstracted to be free of the semantics of library catalogs. This RDF vocabulary can be used by any community with metadata that is describing created resources, and responds to some existing uses of the base concepts outside of their original context. Karen will illustrate the differences between the library vocabulary and the OpenWEMI vocabulary, and will provide some sample uses of OpenWEMI. In keeping with the “simpler is better” approach by DCMI, Karen will also show the Dublin Core Tabular Application Profiles (DCTAP) work which is a low-tech but powerful model for creating a machine actionable metadata profile that can be converted to SHACL or ShEx validation documents.
This seminar will be held both online & in person. You are welcome to join us either in South Hall or via Zoom.
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Speaker
Karen Coyle is a librarian with over four decades of experience with library technology. She engages in a variety of areas relating to digital libraries. Karen has published dozens of articles and reports, most available on her web site, kcoyle.net. She has served on standards committees including the MARC standards group (MARBI), NISO committee AX for the OpenURL standard, and was an ALA representative to the e-book standards development that led to the ePub standard. She follows, writes, and speaks on a wide range policy areas, including intellectual property, privacy, and public access to information. She is currently investigating the possibilities offered by the semantic web and linked data technology, working with the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and taking part in standards efforts of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Karen Coyle graduated from the UC Berkeley School of Information (in South Hall) in 1972 when it was named School of Librarianship. She returned for an advanced certificate in 1978. She went on to be one of the founding members of the MELVYL staff, and since then has written, spoken, and been involved in metadata standards and development.
Contact
If you have questions about this event, please contact Michael Buckland.
