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.
"The Dublin Core International Conference is the annual gathering place for metadata experts from around the world. Since its beginning in 1995, the Dublin Core has played a major role in the interoperability of information systems globally and has been instrumental in the inception and evolution of standards driving the emerging Semantic Web such as Resource Description Framework (RDF). A major focus of this year's meeting in Pittsburgh is exploring what's next as both private and public systems embrace Semantic Web and Linked Data principles,” explained Stuart A. Sutton, chair of the DC- 2010 conference. Mr. Sutton is also the Lead Scientist for the Achievement Standards Network for JES & Co.
“JES & Co. is pleased to participate in a leadership role by supporting the DC-2010 conference and is honored to have Jon both participate in several leadership roles as well as be a tutorial speaker and to have Stuart play a leadership role as well by chairing the conference. Jon and Stuart are recognized as experts in the industry on metadata,” explained Diny Golder, Executive Director of JES & Co. “Every year, the DCMI conference provides a wonderful opportunity for anyone interested in metadata to spend a few days immersed in the DCMI metadata think tank. This year’s collocation with the ASIS&T conference and the renewed interest in metadata as a critical component of the Linked Open Data movement makes this a very exciting event,” said Phipps.
Mr. Phipps leads the Metadata Registry project under the Global Learning Resource Connection. Both the Metadata Registry and the GLRC are JES & Co. programs. The Registry provides a means to identify, declare and publish through registration metadata schemas (element/property sets), schemes (controlled vocabularies) and soon Application Profiles (ontologies). In addition to supporting registration of schemes, schemas and profiles for consumption and use by human and machine agents, the Registry is designed to support the machine mapping of relationships among terms and concepts in those schemes (semantic mappings) and schemas (crosswalks). Thus, the Registry will support the key goals of metadata discovery, reuse, standardization and interoperability locally and globally with native support for RDF, SKOS and XML/RDF interoperability. For more information on the metadata registry, please visit: www.metadataregistry.org.
For more information on the DC-2010 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, please visit http://www.asis.org/Conferences/DC2010/
About Jon Phipps
Jon Phipps is the Lead Scientist for Internet Strategies at JES & Co., “a non-profit organization dedicated to the 21st century education of youth,” and a partner in Metadata Management Associates in Ithaca, NY. He was most recently the Lead Engineer and Principal Investigator of the NSDL Metadata Registry, which has become a JES & Co. project. He was the Technical Lead of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Core Integration group at Cornell University, and an Invited Expert on the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group where he was a co-editor of the SKOS Use Cases and Requirements document and a co-editor of the revised Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. He is a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Advisory Board and co-chair of the Registries Community, and an Invited Expert on the W3C eGovernment Interest Group.
About JES & Co.
JES & Co., a publicly funded 501(c) (3) education research organization, is a leader in research and deployment of education programs based on open standards. With 20 years of experience in interoperability and portability of educational resources, organizations around the world come to JES & Co. for leadership and guidance on education programs and initiatives. Since its establishment in the early 1990s, JES & Co. has led and managed The Achievement Standards Network (ASN), The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (formerly known as GEM), the Dell Academy, the Intel Student Certification Program, and Microsoft’s Partners in Learning. For more information about JES & Co. or the Global Learning Resource Connection, visit www.JESandCo.org.
About the GLRC
The Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) is a public-private collaboration which brings to fruition ongoing work between JES & Co., a U.S. 501(c)(3) education research organization, corporate sponsors and education agencies worldwide. Leading the initial corporate involvement are founding worldwide partners Microsoft, Cisco, Cengage/Gale, the National Education Association (NEA), and other leading corporations in process. The GLRC ties together several significant semantic web technologies developed through funding from the National Science Foundation and is designed to support cyber learning. The GLRC supports the implementation of the mapping of major collections of learning resources in systems around the world to the machine-readable expressions of the learning outcomes based on the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) modeling and technical framework. The work will implement the international linking of those resources through trans-jurisdictional mapping of learning outcomes by means of Semantic Web/Linked Data principles for teacher/learner access and use. For more information about the GLRC, contact Terry Smithson at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit us www.JESandCo.org.
