Convenors: Corey Harper, Tom Baker, Gordon Dunsire, Diane Hillmann, Johannes Keizer & Jon Phipps

Agenda: At DC-2010, Mike Bergman's keynote strongly suggested that DCMI has a potential role in promoting co-operation among vocabulary managers and in providing best practices for vocabulary alignment and interoperability. The inevitable and useful proliferation of vocabularies emerging in the linked data space demonstrates a need for increased vocabulary reuse and tools to facilitate this reuse, as well as central reference vocabularies and tools to manage and encourage vocabulary mapping. Recent announcements about search engine support for schema.org and Microdata make the need even more prominent.

Toward this end, a first step was recently taken with the announcement of a collaboration effort between DCMI and FOAF. This full day special session will explore the scope and nature of vocabulary management issues, with illustrations from a variety of different domains and communities, and discuss a variety of proposals and ideas for how DCMI, the W3C and other committed organizations might contribute to both infrastructure and best practices for more effective vocabulary management and interoperability. For the purpose of this workshop, "vocabularies" refers to both property / element sets and value / controlled vocabularies.

The agenda below is an outline of the topics to be covered. Presentations from vocabulary managers present, soliciting input on needs and issues, will influence the details of subsequent discussions. Additionally, a survey will be distributed to attendees before the workshop to collect further context.

PART 1: Vocabulary Management Infrastructure (9:00-13:00)

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Brief presentations from vocabulary managers
3. Infrastructure, policy and strategic issues
4. Discussion

[Lunch]

PART 2: Vocabulary Discovery, Mapping and Alignment (14:00-17:00)

1. Vocabulary discovery solutions
2. Vocabulary alignment and mapping

PART 3. Closing Discussion

1. Role of DCMI
   • Task Groups or Communities to form
   • Other collaborative ventures
2. Action item review

This meeting is intended to be accessible to all, including those who have not previously attended DCMI events. The participation of newcomers and non-experts is encouraged.

Remote Participation: For those who are not registered, remote participation will be possible through the Dublin Core IRC Channel, #dcmi on «irc.freenode.net». Instructions for using IRC, including information about IRC clients and about connecting to a channel, can be found here: «http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Instructions».