The Eduserv Foundation attends and contributes to conferences and other events, and is involved with a number of working groups and initiatives. Publications, presentations and other material arising from this work are available here. Enquiries about this work should be emailed to foundation@eduserv.org.uk

Note that all our presentations are made available on SlideShare.

Presentations

Forthcoming

Everything you wanted to know about Dublin Core metadata...
Tutorial for Eduserv Staff, Bath
24 April 2008
Pete Johnston & Andy Powell

2008

The OAI ORE project
CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG Meeting, London
12 February 2008
Pete Johnston

Aggregation Identity & owl:sameAs
OAI ORE Technical Committee Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA
14 January 2008
Pete Johnston

2007

Dublin Core, the DCMI Abstract Model & DC Application Profiles
JISC Images DCAP Working Group, London.
29 October 2007
Pete Johnston

dctagging: Encoding DC metadata using Structured Tags
DCMI Social Tagging Community, DC-2007, Singapore.
30 August 2007
Pete Johnston

Expressing the Scholarly Works DCAP using the DSP Wiki Syntax
DC-2007, Singapore.
28 August 2007
Pete Johnston

Some thoughts on Compound Objects & Graphs
OAI ORE Technical Committee Meeting, New York City, USA
29 May 2007
Pete Johnston

Update on work of Joint DCMI/IEEE LTSC Task Force
CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG Meeting, Manchester
16 April 2007
Pete Johnston

An Introduction to the DCMI Abstract Model
CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG Meeting, Manchester
16 April 2007
Pete Johnston

A Resource-Oriented Approach to the Repository
OAI ORE Technical Committee Meeting, New York City, USA
11 January 2007
Pete Johnston

2006

Item banks and the JISC Information Environment
CETIS Metadata and Repositories and Assessment SIG Meeting, Glasgow
12 October 2006
Andy Powell

Lomtologies - issues and challenges in maintaining simple LOM-related vocabularies
DCMI Education Special Session, DC-2006, Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.
5 October 2006
Andy Powell

DCMI Collection Description Working Group
DCMI Collection Description WG, DC-2006, Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.
4 October 2006
Pete Johnston

The DCMI Abstract Model and DC Kernel
DCMI Kernel WG, DC-2006, Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.
4 October 2006
Pete Johnston

DCMI Abstract Model: issues and proposed changes
DCMI Architecture WG, DC-2006, Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.
3 October 2006
Pete Johnston

DC-Text: a simple text-based format for DC metadata
DC-2006, Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico.
3 October 2006
Pete Johnston

Update on work of Joint DCMI/IEEE LTSC Task Force
CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG Meeting, Bath
28 June 2006
Pete Johnston

Persistent Identifiers
The Digital Library and its Services
March 2006
Andy Powell

RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile - Revisited
Higher Education Academy Technical Awayday
February 2006
Andy Powell

Persistently identifying website content
DCC and Wellcome Library workshop
January 2006
Andy Powell

Publications

Forthcoming

2008

Mikael Nilsson (editor), Ambjörn Naeve, Erik Duval, Pete Johnston & David Massart (contributors)
Harmonization of Metadata Standards
ProLEARN Delivrable D4.7.
January 2008.
PDF

Mikael Nilsson, Andy Powell, Pete Johnston & Ambjörn Naeve
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)
DCMI Recommendation.
January 2008.
HTML

Andy Powell, Pete Johnston & Thomas Baker
Domains and Ranges for DCMI Properties
January 2008.
HTML

2007

Carl Lagoze, Herbert Van de Sompel, Pete Johnston, Michael Nelson, Robert Sanderson & Simeon Warner (editors)
ORE Specification and User Guide
Alpha version. Open Archives Initiatiive.
December 2007.
HTML

Pete Johnston
Expressing Dublin Core metadata using the DC-Text format
DCMI Recommended Resource.
December 2007.
HTML

Mikael Nilsson, Alistair J. Miles, Pete Johnston, Fredrik Enoksson
"Formalizing Dublin Core Application Profiles Description Set Profiles and Graph Constraints"
in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (CD-ROM), Ionian Academy, Corfu, Greece.
October 2007.
PDF

Andy Powell & Harry Wagner (editors), Stuart Weibel, Thomas Baker, Tod Matola, Eric Miller & Pete Johnston (contributors)
Namespace Policy for the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
DCMI Recommendation.
July 2007.
HTML

Andy Powell, Mikael Nilsson, Ambjörn Naeve, Pete Johnston & Thomas Baker
DCMI Abstract Model
DCMI Recommendation.
June 2007.
HTML

Andy Powell & David Recordon
"OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web"
Ariadne Issue 51.
April 2007.
HTML

Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston, and Andy Powell
"A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works"
Ariadne Issue 50.
January 2007.
HTML

Mikael Nilsson, Pete Johnston, Ambjörn Naeve and Andy Powell
"The Future of Learning Object Metadata Interoperability"
in Harman, K. and Koohang, A. (Eds.). Learning Objects: Standards, Metadata, Repositories, and LCMS Santa Rosa, California: Informing Science Press. 2007.

Preprint (PDF)

2006

Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston, and Rosemary Russell
"DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning"
Ariadne Issue 49.
October 2006.
HTML

Mikael Nilsson, Pete Johnston, Ambjörn Naeve and Andy Powell
"Towards an interoperability framework for metadata standards"
in Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning. 3-6 October 2006. Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico Mexico: University of Colima.
October 2006.
Preprint

Pete Johnston and Andy Powell
"DC-Text: a simple text-based format for DC metadata"
in Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning. 3-6 October 2006. Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico Mexico: University of Colima.
October 2006.
Preprint

Rachel Heery (UKOLN) and Andy Powell (Eduserv Foundation)
Digital Repositories Roadmap: looking forward (pdf file, 206Kb)
A JISC Repositories Programme discussion paper
April 2006