Stuart L. Weibel

Senior Research Scientist

Current Research Activities

• The Dublin Core and the OCLC Metadata Workshop Series

  • The Dublin Core Homepage
    The definitive site for information on the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and associated workshops and projects: http://purl.oclc.org/metadata/dublin_core

  • DC-4: Dublin Core Down Under
    Cosponsored by the National Library of Australia, the Distributed System Technology Centre (University of Queensland), and OCLC.
    
    Workshop Home Page: http://purl.org/dstc/dc4

  • DC-3: The CNI/OCLC Image Metadata Workshop
    Workshop Home Page: http://purl.oclc.org/metadata/image

  • DC-2: The OCLC/UKOLN Metadata Workshop II
    Workshop Home Page: http://purl.oclc.org/oclc/rsch/metadataII

    The Warwick Metadata Workshop: A Framework for the Deployment of Resource Description.
    Lorcan Dempsey and Stuart Weibel, DLib Magazine (July/August, 1996) http://www.dlib.org.

    A proposed consensus for embedding metadata in HTML
    from the W3C Distributed Indexing Workshop, May 28-29, 1996.

  • DC-1: The OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop I
    Workshop Home Page: http://purl.oclc.org/oclc/rsch/metadataI

    OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report.
    Stuart Weibel, Jean Godby, Eric Miller, and Ron Daniel (June, 1995).

    Metadata: The Foundations of Resource Description
    DLib Magazine (July, 1995) http://www.dlib.org.

• PURLs: Persistent Uniform Resource Locators
  Persistent network resource name resolution using existing HTTP and DNS technology.
  The PURL Page
  The PURL FAQ

  PURL-HANDLE Resolution
  The combination of PURLs and HANDLES makes it possible to deploy a URN (Uniform Resource Name) solution today with full confidence that the investment in formal naming will work in future URN environments.

  The link http://purl.org/HDL/cnri-1/cnri_home is a HANDLE assigned under the CNRI HANDLE system and resolved using PURLs.

• World Wide Web information systems
  • IW3C2 International World Wide Web Conference Committee

• ALCTS Task Force to Define Bibliographic Access in the Electronic Environment
  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/alcts/

• Task Force on the Preservation of Digital Information
  Commission on Preservation and Access task force to identify problems and propose action to advance the state of the art in the preservation of digital objects. Task Force Page

• The Core Project
  A Thumbnail Sketch
  The Whole Enchilada
  SGML-based electronic publication of chemistry journals. A collaborative, digital library project of The American Chemical Society, Chemical Abstracts Services, The Mann Library at Cornell Univerity, Bellcore, and OCLC.