Jon Phipps of JES & Co. will be participating in multiple roles at the Dublin Core-2010 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications October 20-22, 2010 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Phipps will be attending the DCMI Advisory Board meeting, be featured as a tutorial speaker at the conference, will be presenting “Dublin Core: History, Key Concepts, and Evolving Context”, be attending a joint meeting of the DCMI architecture Board and the W3C Linked Library Data Incubator, and will be participating in the W3C Linked Library Data Incubator Group Face2Face meeting. Mr. Phipps will also be giving a SKOS update on a panel at ASIST2010 which is part of this joint conference.

As the Lead Scientist for Internet Strategies at JES & Co., Mr. Phipps has played an integral role in the international collaboration and development of open standards that allow resources to be discovered and easily shared which allows educators to seamlessly navigate related learning resources across state and national boundaries, thus enriching curricula in each nation.

JES & Co. a world leader in research, development, and deployment of education programs based on open standards, announced today that Microsoft has become a Premier Sponsor and founding worldwide partner of the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC). The GLRC will result in teachers and learners being able to seamlessly navigate related learning resources across national boundaries thus enriching the curricula in each nation while simultaneously providing the means for relating learning outcomes to educational resources such as student ePortfolios, professional development resources, and individual student learning plans.

The Global Learning Resource Connection exemplar solutions include:

JES & Co. appoints Terry Smithson as Director of Marketing to bring the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) solutions to educators worldwide. JES & Co., a world leader in research, development, and deployment of education programs based on open standards, announced today that Terry Smithson has been appointed director of marketing. Mr. Smithson is well known to the education community through his eight years of leading Intel’s education initiatives and the national Hurricane Education Leadership Program (HELP). Mr. Smithson will focus on the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) growth worldwide with dedicated attention to the providers of the next generation of education systems. The GLRC will result in teachers and learners being able to seamlessly navigate related learning resources across state and national boundaries thus enriching curricula while simultaneously providing the means of relating learning outcomes to educational activities such as student ePortfolios, professional development, and assessments.

"I am proud to announce Terry’s appointment as Director of Marketing. The magnitude of the GLRC‘s reach demands someone with extensive education experience and the ability to get GLRC sponsors’ messages out to the mass of educators worldwide. No one could do this better than Terry,” explains Diny Golder, the Executive Director of JES & Co. "I am excited about joining the JES & Co. team and the focus on the Global Learning Resource Connection,” said Smithson. “The GLRC is the first global education initiative using the Semantic Web and will play a key role in the advancement of education worldwide through technology. It is an honor to be a part of a team that is both visionary and is recognized as a world leader in the research and development of programs that have such a profound impact on education around the world."

Jon Phipps, JES & Co.'s Lead Scientist for Internet Strategies presented a technical overview of the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) RDF vocabulary at the Linked Data Pre-conference at the American Library Association's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Jon was an Invited Expert on the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group that developed SKOS. JES & Co.'s Open Metadata Registry also describes registered value vocabularies using SKOS. The special Linked Data Pre-Conference day was a complete sellout and generated quite a bit of excitement among the attendees. Jon also participated, with Ed Summers of the Library of Congress, in a 45-minute question and answer session that was followed immediately by a panel discussion moderated by Corey Harper of NYU. A copy of Jon's presentation can be found here.

Pairing the award-winning WGBH programming with the Country's most popular educational digital library, The Gateway, creates a win-win situation for teachers and parents.

Popular PBS programs such as Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, Design Squad, Peep and the Big Wide World, Curious George, Masterpiece Theatre and Martha Speaks are now complemented with associated free lesson plans and activities that are easy to find on the National Education Association (www.nea.org ) sponsored Gateway to 21st Century Skills (www.thegateway.org). "We are looking forward to our partnership with the Gateway to 21st Century Skills." said Natalie Hebshie, WGBH Outreach Coordinator for PBS. "The Gateway makes it so easy to find exactly what a teacher or parent needs to engage learners."