| John Kunze, Berkeley/The California Digital Library |
| Mon 23 Nov 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 |
| Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
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This talk describes a new way to build metadata vocabularies that should achieve better results at lower cost than traditional approaches. YAMZ.net is an on online metadata dictionary that is crowd-sourced and cross-domain. It contains terms from any field of study and from any part of "metadata speech" -- element names, element values, schemes, encodings, etc. Each term starts out as Vernacular (still evolving), may be promoted to Canonical (no longer evolving), and may be Deprecated, but it always retains the same globally unique persistent identifier. Anyone can login and publish their own metadata terms and definitions, even if they're competing with the same terms that others have published. Reputation-based voting encourages a true meritocracy.
Bio:
John Kunze is an Identifier Systems Architect at the California Digital Library. With a background in computer science and mathematics, his current work focuses on general identifier resolution, ARK identifiers, data citation, creating long-term durable references using the EZID service and the N2T resolver, publishing tabular datasets, and promoting lightweight metadata standards (Dublin Core "Kernel" metadata and the YAMZ crowd-sourced dictionary). His work has been supported by National Science Foundation, the Library of Congress, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Microsoft Research. Previously, he contributed heavily to the standardization (RFC's, NISO specifications) of URLs, Dublin Core metadata, and the Z39.50 search and retrieval protocol. In an earlier life he created UC Berkeley's first campus-wide information system, which was an early rival and client of the World Wide Web. Before that he was a BSD Unix hacker whose work survives in today's Linux and Apple systems.