Keynote speakers
Tutorial presenters
Dr. Thomas H. Baker works since May 2005 in Goettingen State and University Library. Before joining Goettingen Library he was Project Leader at the Birlinghoven Library of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Bonn (Germany). He holds an MLS from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University, and he taught for two years at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. As a partner in the EU-funded projects SCHEMAS and CORES, an activity lead in the DELOS Network of Excellence, and founding head of the Usage Board of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Tom Baker is interested in the development of open standards for metadata and related registry infrastructures, and in last June he has been appointed DCMI Director of Specifications and Documentation by the DCMI Board of Trustees.
Tom will make the keynote speech on Monday 12, entitled: Diverse Vocabularies in a Common Model: DCMI at ten years.
"Sharing a grammar allows many different communities to maintain vocabularies which themselves remain small and manageable, yet when combined in Application Profiles can be highly expressive"
Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates is currently an ICREA Professor at the Dept. of Technology of the University Pompeu Fabra at Barcelona, Spain. He is also Director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile from where he is on sabbatical leave. He holds an M.Sc. in CS, the professional title in electrical engineering and the M.Eng. in EE (1986) from University of Chile and a Ph.D. in CS from the U. of Waterloo, Canada. He was two times elected president of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC). Dr. Baeza has received several prizes, such as the Organization of American States award for young researchers in exact sciences. His research interests include information retrieval, algorithms, and information visualization. He is co-author of the book Modern Information Retrieval (Addison-Wesley, 1999) between other books and publications in journals published by ACM, IEEE or SIAM. He has been visiting professor or invited speaker at several conferences and universities all around the world, as well as referee of several journals, conferences, NSF, etc.
Ricardo will make the keynote speech on Tuesday 13, entitled: From User Queries & Actions to Metadata.
Dr. Johannes Keizer is responsible in FAO for scientific documentation and related activities as especially the international AGRIS network. To exploit the new possibilities of the Internet for accessing scientific and technological information for FAOs member countries his group launched various initiatives in the last years to work towards a semantic web in FAOs subject area, namly the Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) initiative and the AgMES (Agricultural Metadata Element Set) initiatives. Johannes Keizer holds a PhD in Biology from the University of Mainz, before joining FAO in 2000 he was first working as a researcher in biochemistry at the Italian High Health Institute and then as Free Lance Consultant for Management of Scientific Data. He lives in Rome.
Johannes will make the keynote speech on Wednesday 14, entitled: Coherence and Interoperability in Agricultural Information Systems - Issues, Experiences and a Project and he will be the chair of the Special Session on Representation in Multilingual Vocabularies
Eric Miller is the Activity Lead for the W3C World Wide Web Consortium's Semantic Web. Eric's responsibilities include the architectural and technical leadership in the design and evolution of Semantic Web infrastructure. Responsibilities additionally include working with W3C members so that both working groups in the Semantic Web activity, as well as other W3C activities, produce Web standards and conventions that support Semantic Web requirements. Additionally, to build support among user and vendor communities for the Semantic Web by illustrating the benefits to those communities and means of participating in the creation of a metadata-ready Web. And finally to establish liaisons with other technical standards bodies involved in Web-related technology to ensure compliance with existing Semantic Web standards and collect requirements for future W3C work in this area. Before joining the W3C, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the co-founder and Associate Director of the The Dublin Core Metdata Initiative. Nowadays, Eric is a Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and he is a member of the DCMI Advisory Board.
Eric will make the keynote speech on Thursday 15 entitled: The Semantic Web in Practice.
Andy Powell is the Assistant Director of Distributed Systems and Services at UKOLN, University of Bath. He is involved in specifying the technical standards that underpin collaborative activities between the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) and the RDN, based largely on the IEEE Learning Object Metadata standard and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. He is member of the DC Advisory Board and the DC Usage Board as well as being current chair of the DC Architecture Working Group. He is the creator of DC-dot, DC-assist, OpenResolver and RSS-xpress.
Andy will be the instructor of the Tutorial 1: Basic Syntax
Diane Hillmann is member of the Dublin Core Usage Board and Advisory Boards, the Editor of "Using Dublin Core" and the administrator of the AskDCMI Service. She is currently a Research Librarian at Cornell University, working on a number of special projects. From 2000 through July 2005 she was Director of Library Services and Operations for the National Science Digital Library.
Diane will be the instructor of the Tutorial 2: Basic Semantics on Tuesday 13. She is co-author of the paper: Orchestrating Metadata Enhancement Services: Introducing Lenny to be presented at Plenary Paper Session 2.
Ron Daniel, Jr. is a Principal at Taxonomy Strategies, an information management consultancy that specializes in applying taxonomies, metadata, automatic classification, other information retrieval technologies to the needs of organizations. Dr. Daniel is a co-editor of the original Dublin Core, and has been involved in defining other standards for metadata on the Web.
Ron will be the instructor of the Tutorial 3: Vocabularies on Wednesday 14.
Alistair Miles is a research associate at CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and a member of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group. He holds a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.
Alistair will be the instructor of Tutorial 4: SKOS-Core on Thursday 15. He is co-author of the paper: SKOS Core: Simple Knowledge Organisation for the Web to be presented at Plenary Paper Session 1.
Rachel Heery works for UKOLN as Assistant Director leading the Research and Development team. She has a particular interest in schema registries and application profiles and is currently working on the development of a JISC application profile schema registry. Rachel has been active in the development of the Dublin Core, co-chairs the DCMI Registry Working Group, and is a member of the Dublin Core Advisory Board.
Rachel will be the instructor of Tutorial 5: Metadata Application Profiles on Thursday 15.
Robina Clayphan is Co-ordinator of Bibliographic Standards at the British Library and, as chair of the DCMI Libraries Working Group she has been involved in development of the DC Library Application profile. Robina has used application profiles in the context of digitisation projects at the British Library and in the development of The European Library (TEL) system.
Robina will present a case study as part of Tutorial 5 about Applications Profiles on Thursday 15, and she is co-author of the paper: Using Dublin Core Application Profiles to Manage Diverse Metadata Developments to be presented at Plenary Paper Session 2.
