2011 CEAL Conference

Are We Communicating Effectively?Jinho PARK

Senior ResearcherThe National Library of Korea

March 30, 2011

Who am I?

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• Senior Researcher of The National Library of Korea (2007 ~ )

• Korea Working Group Leader of CJKDLI (2010 ~ )

• ISO TC 46/SC 9 Korea Secretary (2007 ~ )

• DCMI System Manager (2009 ~ )

• Member of Korea Web Science Workgroup (2009 ~ )

• Areas of Research Interests

– Digital Archiving (Preservation), Information Literacy, Web Science (Metadata, Linked data)

Development of CJKDLI

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China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Initiative (CJKDLI)

• October, 2008: The National Diet Library, Japan

– Discussion about metadata interoperability, digital archiving, standardization

•  October, 2009: WLIC, Italia

– Representatives from 3 countries (Directors & Vice-Directors) agreed about the

necessity of the Asian Digital Library Project.

• June, 2010: The National Library of Korea

– Contents of CJKDLI Agreement was finally agreed.

• August, 2010: WLIC, Sweden

– CJKDLI Agreement was concluded and signed.

• May or June, 2011: The National Library of China

– 1st CJKDLI Working Group Meeting will be held.

CJKDLI Agreement

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ARTICLE 1 Objectives

The objectives of the China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Initiative are to provide easy integrated

access on the Internet to the cultural and scientific heritage of the three countries, to enable

people to discover rich multilingual and culturally diverse contents and to contribute to the

academic world.

The China-Japan-Korea Digital Library Initiative (CJKDLI) is intended to enrich oriental culture,

promote the cultural diversity of Asia and contribution to Asia and world civilization.

Now, CJKDLI is at the Startling Line!

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CJKDLI: The Key to Success

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• Make CJKDLI Contents User-Friendly: Easy to Look-up and Use

• Manage CJKDLI Resources User-Friendly: Put Ourselves in the User’s

Shoes

• Ultimately, Good Communication Skill/Means is Required for Effective and

Efficient Communicating with the User and the Resources

Communication Medium

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• Metadata

• With everyday cataloging work, we may have forgotten the important fact

that the metadata is also the data.

• For this purpose, MDR can be the fundamental solution to the problem by

ensuring the interoperability between two systems or between information

and information.

– So far, we just have used one standard—MARC--and then applied mapping or

metadata crosswalk, but it was not the fundamental solution.

ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) -- (1)

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• ISO/IEC 11179 specifies the kind and quality of metadata necessary to describe data, and it

specifies the management and administration of that metadata in a metadata registry

(MDR). It applies to the formulation of data representations, concepts, meanings, and

relationships between them to be shared among people and machines, independent of the

organization that produces the data. It does not apply to the physical representation of data

as bits and bytes at the machine level.

• In ISO/IEC 11179, metadata refers to descriptions of data. ISO/IEC 11179 does not contain

a general treatment of metadata. ISO/IEC 11179-1:2004 provides the means for

understanding and associating the individual parts of ISO/IEC 11179 and is the foundation

for a conceptual understanding of metadata and metadata registries.

ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) -- (2)

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Part 1: Framework 2004

Part 2: Classification 2005

Part 3: Registry metamodel and basic attributes [ISO/IEC FCD 11179-3]

2003

Part 4: Formulation of data definitions 2004

Part 5: Naming and identification principles 2005

Part 6: Registration 2005

ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) -- (3)

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• Overview Model for ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registry

DATA ELEMENT CONCEPT

CONCEPTUAL DOMAIN

DATA ELEMENTDATA ELEMENT VALUE DOMAINVALUE DOMAIN

(N:1)

(N:1)

(1:N) (1:N)

Having

Expressed by

Expressing

Specifying

Representing

Represented by

Represented by

Representing

ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) -- (4)

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• Data Element = Data Element Concept + Representation

DATA ELEMENT CONCEPT

DATA ELEMENT CONCEPT DATA ELEMENTDATA ELEMENT

(Conceptual Level) (Representational Level)

(1:N)

Property

Representation

Property

Object Class Object Class(Book, People, Car..)

(Color, Size, Kind, Age..)

ISO 11179 Metadata Registry (MDR) -- (5)

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• Fundamental model for value domains

VALUE DOMAINVALUE DOMAIN(1:N)

[Country] AlgeriaChina

Korea, Republic ofZimbabwe

Value meaning

[Country] [ 대한민국 , 한국 , KOR, KR]

DZA, DZ, 012CHN, CN, 056KOR, KR, 410ZWE, ZW, 716

Permissible values

DZA, DZ, 012CHN, CN, 056KOR, KR, 410ZWE, ZW, 716

CONCEPTUAL DOMAIN

CONCEPTUAL DOMAIN

VALUE MEANING

PERMISSIBLE VALUES VALUE DOMAINVALUE DOMAIN(1:N) (N:1)(1:1)

ISO 3166 2 Alpha CodeISO 3166 3 Alpha CodeISO 3166 3 numeric Code

CONCEPTUAL DOMAINCONCEPTUAL DOMAIN

Why MDR?

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• Back to the Basic

• Classification

• Concept: Intension (connotation), Extension (denotation)

• With the recent discussion about semantic Web and ontology, the

importance of MDR has once again come to the fore.

Meaning Triangle

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Cogito, ergo sum

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• Aristotle

• Cogito, ergo sum

• Rene Descartes and Augustine

• Different Context

Conclusion

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• CJKDLI should be a better project than another new digital library

where the user can access to the digital heritage of the Asia on the

Web.

• CJKDLI will make it possible for the users all over the world to see the

Asian culture with the philosophy of Asians.

• If CJKDLI is able to show “HOW” Asians feel and express differently

than Westerners when they see the same color or object, then I think it

will be a real success.