[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar - __May 19__ (correction) Modeling Intangible Entities in the Cultural Domains for Digital Archiving Inbox

[DCMI Announce]

This webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 19th, 2021, 21:00 UTC and
is free (but registration required).

There are a variety of new cultural domains for which we need to
design metadata schemas. It is widely recognized that data models are
crucial to design metadata schemas – we need to identify objects for
which we create metadata. This webinar aims to present a set of
generalized data models designed for metadata about resources in
cultural domains such as intangible cultural heritage and popular
culture. The presenter will first introduce the generalized data
models and then discuss data models designed in the Media Arts
Database project and related projects in which they are involved.

Learning objectives for the webinar

* Data Modeling for Digital Archiving of Cultural Entities:
Fundamental aspects to model tangible/intangible entities in the
cultural domains for organizing them as a digital collection.

* Data Modeling for Media Arts (manga (Japanese comics), animation,
video games, new media arts and performing arts): Data models as a
foundation for metadata schema development in new cultural domains as
a case study.

* From Item-centric organization to Content-oriented organization of
metadata for digital collections: Shift in the organization for
digital collections from traditional item-centric resource
organization to content-oriented resource organization in the Internet
and Linked Open Data environments.

About the speaker

Shigeo Sugimoto received his BE, ME and PhD degrees from the
Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto
University and specializes in software engineering and computer
languages. He joined University of Library and Information Science
(ULIS) in 1983. ULIS became the Faculty of Library, Information and
Media Science at the University of Tsukuba (iSchool@Tsukuba) after an
institutional merger in 2002. He has served as a faculty member for
over 35 years in Tsukuba until his retirement in 2019. He is now a
professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba.

He first attended Dublin Core Workshop at Canberra in 1997. Since
then, he has been actively involved in the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI). He is a member of the Governing Board of DCMI.

His current research interests are technological and fundamental
aspects for metadata in the cultural and historical domains, which
include intangible cultural heritage, media arts, sports and natural
disasters.


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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar, May 20, Modeling Intangible Entities in the Cultural Domains for Digital Archiving

[DCMI Announce]

This webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 19th, 2021, 21:00 UTC and
is free (but registration required).

There are a variety of new cultural domains for which we need to
design metadata schemas. It is widely recognized that data models are
crucial to design metadata schemas – we need to identify objects for
which we create metadata. This webinar aims to present a set of
generalized data models designed for metadata about resources in
cultural domains such as intangible cultural heritage and popular
culture. The presenter will first introduce the generalized data
models and then discuss data models designed in the Media Arts
Database project and related projects in which they are involved.

Learning objectives for the webinar

* Data Modeling for Digital Archiving of Cultural Entities:
Fundamental aspects to model tangible/intangible entities in the
cultural domains for organizing them as a digital collection.

* Data Modeling for Media Arts (manga (Japanese comics), animation,
video games, new media arts and performing arts): Data models as a
foundation for metadata schema development in new cultural domains as
a case study.

* From Item-centric organization to Content-oriented organization of
metadata for digital collections: Shift in the organization for
digital collections from traditional item-centric resource
organization to content-oriented resource organization in the Internet
and Linked Open Data environments.

About the speaker

Shigeo Sugimoto received his BE, ME and PhD degrees from the
Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto
University and specializes in software engineering and computer
languages. He joined University of Library and Information Science
(ULIS) in 1983. ULIS became the Faculty of Library, Information and
Media Science at the University of Tsukuba (iSchool@Tsukuba) after an
institutional merger in 2002. He has served as a faculty member for
over 35 years in Tsukuba until his retirement in 2019. He is now a
professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba.

He first attended Dublin Core Workshop at Canberra in 1997. Since
then, he has been actively involved in the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI). He is a member of the Governing Board of DCMI.

His current research interests are technological and fundamental
aspects for metadata in the cultural and historical domains, which
include intangible cultural heritage, media arts, sports and natural
disasters.


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https://www.dublincore.org/news/2021/05_06_webinar_modeling_intangible_entities_in_the_cultural_domains_for_digital_archiving/
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[MCN-L] DCMI/ASIS&T webinar about Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) on April 21

[DCMI Announce]

Date: Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
Tim: 14:00 UTC (convert to your local timezone [1])

Presenters:
- Jane Fry, Data Services Librarian, Carleton University
- Arofan Gregory, Independent Consultant
- Jared Lyle, Executive Director, DDI Alliance and Archivist, ICPSR,
University of Michigan
- Barry Radler, Distinguished Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The webinar will discuss the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other
observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health
sciences, with an emphasis on DDI-Codebook and DDI-Lifecycle.
DDI-Codebook is a light-weight version of the standard, intended
primarily to document simple survey data. DDI-Lifecycle is designed to
document and manage data across the entire life cycle, from
conceptualization to data publication, analysis and beyond. It
encompasses all of the DDI-Codebook specification and extends it to
more complex, linked, and longitudinal data. Based on XML Schemas,
DDI-Lifecycle is modular and extensible.

The presentation will also briefly discuss the DDI Alliance
organizational structure, as well as products currently under
development.

The learning objectives for the webinar are:

- To understand DDI-Codebook, including when and how to use it.
- To understand DDI-Lifecycle and an applied example.
- To understand how the DDI Alliance organization maintains the DDI
metadata standard.

The webinar is free for DCMI members. For further information,
including instructions on how to join as a DCMI member, see [2].

[1] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=DCMI+Webinar%3A+Introduction+to+DDI&iso=20210421T14

[2] https://www.dublincore.org/news/2021/02-18-webinar-introduction-to-ddi/
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[MCN-L] Webinar - Introduction to the W3C Data Catalog Ontology (DCAT)

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DCMI is pleased to announce a new webinar, scheduled for Thursday November 12th 
2020.

Peter Winstanley will talk about the history of DCAT and its underlying 
philosophy.

The W3C Data Catalogue ontology (DCAT) is a recommendation for how to publish 
data catalogues on the web. It can be used by itself, of form the basis of a 
richer application profile. Although originally focusing on open government 
data, the ontology and application profiles are now seeing use in a wider set 
of uses.

Peter is an ontologist with Semantic Arts and co-Chair of the W3C Dataset 
Exchange Working Group

The webinar will take place on November 12th 2020, 16:00 UTC

Full details, including a time-zone converter and instructions on how to join 
the webinar:

https://bit.ly/3mHPAnq


Paul Walk, DCMI
(On behalf of the DCMI Education Committee)
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[MCN-L] Still time to register for DCMI Virtual 2020

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There is still time to register for DCMI Virtual 2020!

https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/registration/

DCMI Virtual 2020 is an exciting programme of virtual, invited and moderated 
interactive sessions including keynotes, expert panel discussions, tutorials 
and presentations which will run from Monday September 14th 2020 to Friday 25th 
September 2020.

The full programme is available here:

https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/programme/

Register now!

Paul walk, DCMI
(on behalf of the DCMI Virtual 2020 Programme Committee)
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[MCN-L] Register for DCMI Virtual 2020

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Register for DCMI Virtual 2020 now!

https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/registration/

DCMI Virtual 2020 is an exciting programme of virtual, invited and moderated 
interactive sessions including keynotes, expert panel discussions, tutorials 
and presentations.

DCMI Virtual 2020 will run from Monday September 14th 2020 to Friday 25th 
September 2020.

The full programme is available here:

https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/programme/

We look forward to you joining us in September!

Paul walk, DCMI
(on behalf of the DCMI Virtual 2020 Programme Committee)
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[MCN-L] CORRECTION - Webinar - Getty Vocabulary Program OpenRefine reconciliation service

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CORRECTION: The previous email about this webinar misnamed the speaker, who 
will be Jonathan Ward. Correct details below.

DCMI is pleased to announce the second in its new series of webinars!

Jonathan Ward will give a tutorial on the Getty Vocabulary Program's new 
OpenRefine reconciliation service for aligning data records to ULAN, AAT, and 
TGN, including matching terms, cleaning data, and grabbing URIs from the 
Vocabularies' Linked Open Data. The first half of the presentation will be a 
general overview of how the service works and its benefits, and the second will 
focus on advanced techniques. 


Jonathan is the Senior Editor of the Getty Vocabulary Program. He has over 20 
years' experience working with thesaurus construction and terminologies for the 
arts and museum community. He has an MLIS from San José State University and is 
currently the Vice-Chair of CIDOC, ICOM's International Committee for 
Documentation. 

The webinar will take place on August 20, 2020, 15:00 UTC

Full details, including a time-zone conversion and instructions on how to join 
the webinar:

https://bit.ly/3fMe8c0


Paul Walk, DCMI
(On behalf of the DCMI Education Committee)
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[MCN-L] Webinar - Getty Vocabulary Program OpenRefine reconciliation service

[announce]

[apologies for cross-posting]

DCMI is pleased to announce the second in its new series of webinars!

Richard Ward will give a tutorial on the Getty Vocabulary Program's new 
OpenRefine reconciliation service for aligning data records to ULAN, AAT, and 
TGN, including matching terms, cleaning data, and grabbing URIs from the 
Vocabularies' Linked Open Data. The first half of the presentation will be a 
general overview of how the service works and its benefits, and the second will 
focus on advanced techniques. 


Jonathan Ward is the Senior Editor of the Getty Vocabulary Program. He has over 
20 years' experience working with thesaurus construction and terminologies for 
the arts and museum community. He has an MLIS from San José State University 
and is currently the Vice-Chair of CIDOC, ICOM's International Committee for 
Documentation. 

The webinar will take place on August 20, 2020, 15:00 UTC

Full details, including a time-zone conversion and instructions on how to join 
the webinar:

https://bit.ly/3fMe8c0


Paul Walk, DCMI
(On behalf of the DCMI Education Committee)
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[MCN-L] Webinar - Wikiproject COVID-19

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DCMI is pleased to announce the first in a new series of webinars!

Tiago Lubiana will talk about the Wikiproject COVID-19. This project is working 
to curate and organization information about COVID-19 on Wikidata and 
Wikipedia. The scale and pace of a global pandemic have highlighted issues 
around the consistent structuring of information, such as the scope of 
geographically-bound statements and the time period of outbreaks, along with 
challenges for quickly updating information on pages across multiple languages. 
The Wikiproject collaboration has created data models for relevant concepts, 
using ShEx entity schemas that can be validated via SPARQL queries. This 
webinar will introduce the Wikiproject and show examples of the data models at 
work.

Tiago Lubiana is a PhD candidate in bioinformatics at the University of São 
Paulo and curator at Mee (an information startup in São Paulo).

The webinar will take place on June 25, 2020, 11:00 UTC

Full details, including a time-zone conversion and instructions on how to join 
the webinar:

https://www.dublincore.org/news/2020/05-29-webinar-wikiproject-covid-19/


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[MCN-L] DCMI 2020 postponed - alternative virtual event announced

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This is an important announcement regarding the DCMI 2020 International 
Conference on Metadata, Ottawa.

With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and 
disruption which will continue for the medium term, the DCMI 2020 Organising 
Committee has taken the decision to postpone the DCMI 2020 International 
Conference on Metadata until Autumn 2021. We have now closed the Call For 
Participation for this year, and will write to those who had already submitted 
a proposal. We apologise to those of you who may have begun preparing for this, 
and trust that you understand that this is unavoidable.

Now for some more positive news! We are planning an alternative event for 
September 2020. We are calling this DCMI Virtual. This will be a programme of 
virtual, invited, moderated sessions including presentations, tutorials, expert 
panel discussions and keynotes. We will do our best to make these as 
interactive as possible, with moderated question and answer sessions.

More details will follow here soon:

https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/

Our plan is to offer 2-3 hours of sessions in any one day, distributed over a 2 
week period. We intend to alternate the sessions between two different 
time-periods to cater for people in different time-zones. All sessions will be 
recorded and made available to registered delegates.

Please look out for more detailed announcements and updates in the coming days 
and we hope you can join us in what is bound to be a stimulating DCMI Virtual 
Event!

Looking further ahead - we are planning to hold the conference in Ottawa in 
2021 as we had planned to do in 2020, subject to confirmation at a later date.

And finally, looking back, a reminder that the Proceedings from the DCMI 2019 
International Conference on Metadata, Seoul, South Korea are available:

https://dcpapers.dublincore.org/index.php/pubs/index


Paul Walk, DCMI
(On behalf of the DCMI 2020 Organising Committee)
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[MCN-L] DCMI 2020 Call for Participation

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Following on from the success of DCMI 2019 in Seoul, we are pleased to announce 
the call for participation in the DCMI 2020 International Conference on 
Metadata, Ottawa, Canada, 14-17 September 2020. We are grateful to Carleton 
University for offering to host us this year.

This year's conference will mark the 25th anniversary of the original Dublin 
Core workshop. We will both reflect on two and a half decades of innovations 
while looking ahead to future developments. The DCMI 2020 conference embraces 
the spectrum of innovation in metadata research, applications, and analytics, 
with a special focus on challenges and opportunities of open data.

We invite submissions in the form of full papers, short papers, panels, 
posters, workshops and tutorials:
https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/cfp/

We will also run the popular Doctoral Forum:
https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/doctoral_forum/

Sponsorship opportunities of different types are available:
https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2020/sponsorship/

Please join us in Ottawa in September!

Paul Walk, DCMI
(On behalf of the DCMI 2020 Organising Committee)
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[MCN-L] DCMI 2019 - still time to register!

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# DCMI 2019 - Still time to register!

There is still time to register for DCMI 2019, to be hosted by the National 
Library of Korea in Seoul, September 23rd - 26th.

We have an amazing programme this year, with contributions from around the 
world on a range of topics. The programme includes papers, posters, panels, 
tutorials, project demonstrations and even a hackday!

https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/programme/

Register now for your place in one of the longest-running annual events 
dedicated to research, development and practice in metadata:

https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/registration/

The conference is sponsored by Pool Party Semantic Suite (Silver Sponsor) and 
Taxonomy Strategies (sponsoring one of the lunches), and kindly supported by 
the National Library of Korea.

Paul walk, DCMI
(on behalf of the DCMI 2019 Programme Committee)
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[MCN-L] DCMI 2019 - Early registration ends on Friday 23rd August

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# DCMI 2019 - Early registration ends on Friday 23rd August

A reminder that the "early bird" discounted rate for DCMI 2019 ends on Friday 
23rd August. Register now to get the "early bird" cheaper rate:

https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/registration/

We hope to see you in Seoul!

(Please consider sponsoring DCMI 2019 - see 
http://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/sponsorship/)

Paul walk, DCMI
(on behalf of the DCMI 2019 Programme Committee)
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[MCN-L] DCMI 2019 - Registration now open

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# DCMI 2019 Registration is now open

The DCMI 2019 Programme Committee is pleased to announce that registration for 
DCMI 2019 is now open:

https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/registration/

Register now to get the "early bird" discounted rate.

We hope to see you in Seoul!


(Please consider sponsoring DCMI 2019 - see 
http://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/sponsorship/)

Paul walk, DCMI
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[MCN-L] DCMI Annual Conference 2019 - programme available

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# DCMI 2019 Programme Available

The DCMI 2019 Programme Committee is pleased to announce that the programme for 
DCMI 2019 has been published:

http://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/programme/

As you will see, we have an exciting programme lined up - including three great 
keynote speakers: Young Man Ko, Karen Coyle and Javed Mostafa.

The full programme includes a mixture of papers, panels, tutorials, workshops, 
a "Best Practice Day" for showcasing good and innovative metadata practice, and 
a Wikidata Hackathon!

Registration will open very soon. In the meantime, take a look at the programme 
and the other information on the website.

We hope to see you in Seoul!


(we also have sponsorship packages available - see 
http://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/sponsorship/)

Paul walk, DCMI
(on behalf of the DCMI 2019 Programme Committee)
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[MCN-L] DCMI Annual Conference 2019 - Call for work-in-progress posters

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# Call for "Work-in-Progress" posters

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 
2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea, in Seoul, South Korea, 
23rd - 26th September, 2019.

The DCMI 2019 Conference has a new track for Work-in-Progress Posters as an 
additional opportunity to present, share and exchange information about 
innovation, implementation and best practices related to metadata.

PLease consider submitting a proposal!

All details are on the conference webpages:

http://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/work-in-progress-posters/


Paul walk, DCMI
(on behalf of the DCMI 2019 Programme Committee)
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[MCN-L] Submission deadline for DCMI 2019 extended to 2019-05-17

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The deadline for submissions to the programme of the The Dublin Core Metadata 
Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference has been extended to 
2019-05-17.

The DCMI conference this year will be hosted by the National Library of Korea 
in Seoul (23rd - 26th September, 2019) and promises to be a fantastic event!

There is still time to submit a proposal:

http://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/cfp/

This year we will also be running a Doctoral Forum[^1] and a Hack Day[^2] - see 
those respective web pages to find out how to contribute.

Please consider submitting a proposal, and help to make this a conference to 
remember!

Paul Walk
(On behalf of the DCMI 2019 Programme Committee)


[^1]: Doctoral Forum: http://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/doctoral_forum/
[^2]: Hack Day: http://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/hackday/
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[MCN-L] DCMI 2019 - Call for Participation

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DCMI 2019 - Call for Participation

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 
2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea, in Seoul, South Korea, 
23rd - 26th September, 2019.

Since the late 1990s, the Dublin Core conference has been a major venue for 
discussions on where innovation opportunities for metadata might lie and where 
existing good practices may be consolidated. The conferences have drawn 
participants not only from universities, research institutions and LAMs 
(libraries, archives, and museums), but also from corporations and government 
agencies. Continuing the legacy of the Dublin Core conferences from the last 
two decades, the DC2019 conference seeks inspirational submissions on 
developments of innovative tools, practices, and solutions, while addressing 
theoretical, analytical, and empirical aspects of metadata.

The Organising Committee has just published the call for participation:

http://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2019/cfp/

Please consider submitting a proposal!

Paul Walk and Tom Baker
(DCMI Directorate)
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[MCN-L] DC-2019 will be in Seoul, 23rd - 26th Septmeber 2019 - hold the date

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We are delighted to announce that the DCMI Annual Conference in 2019 will be 
hosted by the Korean National Library in Seoul.

The conference dates are confirmed:

23rd - 26th September, 2019 

(23rd - 25th September, 2019 for the conference-proper, with an extra day 
(26th) reserved for workshops or similar activities).

We are also pleased to announce the following appointments to the conference 
planning team:

* Conference Chair: Dr. Sam Oh
* Co-chairs of the Content and Presentations planning committee: Dr. Marcia 
Zeng and Dr. Koraljka Golub
* Chair of the Participation Activities planning committee: Tom Baker

This is a very strong and experienced leadership team and bodes well for a 
great conference!

The theme of the conference will be 'Innovation in metadata design, 
implementation & best practice'. In addition to calling for papers, posters and 
presentations, we are planning the conference to be interactive, with 
opportunities for more active participation.

More details - including the call for participation - to follow very soon in 
the new year. In the meantime, please hold the date for DC-2019!

Paul Walk and Tom Baker
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[MCN-L] Full programme now available for DCMI 2018

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We have just published the full programme for this year's Dublin Core 
conference (DCMI 2018), to be held in the beautiful city of Porto, Portugal in 
September 2018:

http://www.dublincore.org/conference/2018/programme/

This is an exciting and packed programme of papers, presentations, posters, 
workshops and other sessions. And, as if this wasn't enough, delegates 
registered for DCMI 2018 will also have full and free access to the co-located 
TPDL 2018 programme!

Registration is open now:

http://www.dublincore.org/conference/2018/registration/

We look forward to seeing you in Porto in September!

Mariana Curado Malta and Kai Eckert
(DCMI2018 Conference Committee Chairs)

Tom Baker and Paul walk
(DCMI Directorate)
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar - The Current State of Automated Content Tagging - Dangers and Opportunities

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The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is pleased to announce the next 
webinar in its ongoing series. With the title "The Current State of Automated 
Content Tagging: Dangers and Opportunities", the webinar will be presented by 
Joseph Busch on Thursday, July 19th, 2018, 14:00 UTC. 

This webinar is free to attend for DCMI members. To register for the webinar, 
and to read more about both the content and the presenter, please visit the 
full announcement on the DCMI website:

http://bit.ly/2KS9Qo6

DCMI is grateful to ASIS&T for supporting and hosting the webinar.


The DCMI Directorate

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[MCN-L] CORRECTION - DCMI 2018 - last chance to register at discounted early-registration rate

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(Apologies - there was an error in the previous message about this - the 
early-registration rate actually ends on *July 10th*)

There is only one day left to register for DCMI 2018 at the discounted 
early-registration rate (available until July 10th).

We have an excellent programme in preparation - to get a preview you can see 
the list of accepted papers, presentations, sessions and posters here:

http://www.dublincore.org/conference/2018/programme/

For more details - and to register - go to:

http://www.dublincore.org/conference/2018/registration/

We look forward to seeing you in Porto in September!



Mariana Curado Malta and Kai Eckert
(DCMI2018 Conference Committee Chairs)

Tom Baker and Paul walk
(DCMI Directorate)
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[MCN-L] DCMI 2018 - last chance to register at discounted early-registration rate

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[apologies for cross-posting]

There is only one day left to register for DCMI 2018 at the discounted 
early-registration rate (only available until June 30th).

We have an excellent programme in preparation - to get a preview you can see 
the list of accepted papers, presentations, sessions and posters here:

http://www.dublincore.org/conference/2018/programme/

For more details - and to register - go to:

http://www.dublincore.org/conference/2018/registration/

We look forward to seeing you in Porto in September!



Mariana Curado Malta and Kai Eckert
(DCMI2018 Conference Committee Chairs)

Tom Baker and Paul walk
(DCMI Directorate)
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar - The Role of Dublin Core Metadata in the Expanding Digital and Analytical Skill Set Required by Data-Driven Organizations

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The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is pleased to announce the next 
webinar in its ongoing series. With the title "The Role of Dublin Core Metadata 
in the Expanding Digital and Analytical Skill Set Required by Data-Driven 
Organizations", the webinar will be presented by Steve Brewer on Thursday, July 
12th, 2018, 14:00 UTC. 

This webinar is free to attend for DCMI members. To register for the webinar, 
and to read more about both the content and the presenter, please visit the 
full announcement on the DCMI website:

http://bit.ly/2MI2rUw

DCMI is grateful to ASIS&T for supporting and hosting the webinar.


The DCMI Directorate

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[MCN-L] Register now for DCMI 2018

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[apologies for cross-posting]

Don't forget to register for the annual Dublin Core conference - DCMI 2018. If 
you act now, you can enjoy the 'early-bird discount' (only available until June 
30th).

This year we will be hosted by the University of Porto in the beautiful city of 
Porto, Portugal. We have an exciting programme being developed right now!

For more details - and to register - go to:

http://www.dublincore.org/conference/2018/registration/

We look forward to seeing you in Porto in September!



Mariana Curado Malta and Kai Eckert
(DCMI2018 Conference Committee Chairs)

Tom Baker and Paul walk
(DCMI Directorate)
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[MCN-L] DCMI webinar: Save the Children Resource Libraries - Aligning Internal Technical Resource Libraries with a Public Distribution Website

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DCMI is pleased to announce a new webinar: "Save the Children Resource
Libraries: Aligning Internal Technical Resource Libraries with a Public
Distribution Website".

Presented by Joseph Busch, Founder of Taxonomy Strategies (
http://taxonomystrategies.com), the webinar will discuss a recent project
which has established an internal library of technical resources at the
international *Save the Children* charity. Focussing on how this library
has been aligned with the external Save the Children’s Resource Centre (
http://resourcecentre.savethechildren.se/), the webinar will describe how
the project has "...reached consensus on how to accommodate and balance
internal research and external communication requirements by developing a
light-weight application profile."

The webinar is scheduled for December 13, 2017, 10:00am – 11:00am EST
(convert this time to your local timezone here:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Save+the+Children+Resource+Libraries+Webinar&iso=20171213T10&p1=263&ah=1)
and is free for DCMI members.

Full details, including instructions for joining the webinar:

https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/save-the-children-resource-libraries-aligning-internal-technical-resource-libraries-with-a-public-distribution-website/
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[MCN-L] DC-2017 Session: Developing a Metadata Community Response in the Post-Truth Information Age

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Developing a Metadata Community Response in the Post-Truth Information Age
   *Special Session at DC-2017, Washington, DC, 26-29 October 2017*

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*:: Presenter & Facilitator:* *David Clarke*, *Synaptica®*
*:: Time: *3:30-5:00 DST
*:: Date:* 26 October 2017
*:: Session Homepage:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/
pages/view/sp17-postTruth
*:: Registration:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/
pages/view/reg17

*Early registration ends Friday, 15 September 2017. *
*Register now and save! *
*Full conference and day rates are available.*
_

SESSION DESCRIPTION:

Post-truth issues are adversely affecting people all around the world. The
metadata and knowledge organization communities have a mission to help
people access information that is as objective, comprehensive and as
relevant as possible. This session is an open invitation to members of our
community to engage with these issues, contribute ideas for solutions, and
consider whether DCMI has a potential role to play in charting a path
forward.

In 2016 the Oxford English Dictionary chose ‘post-truth’ as word of the
year. Their decision was based on the proliferation of fake news stories
and misinformation that accompanied both the US national election and the
British EU referendum. On Earth Day in April 2017 thousands of people
gathered in London for a March for Science, protesting the negative impact
of post-truth culture and politics on science, research and education.

How can the metadata community engage with, and respond to, these issues?
In this session, David Clarke will describe the problem space and comment
on the issues from the perspective of knowledge organization and
information science. The session will include ample time for delegate
participation, including a discussion about how the metadata community can
get involved and contribute ideas for solutions.

SESSION PRESENTER & FACILITATOR:

*David Clarke* is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and an
Associate of St. George’s House, Windsor. He is cofounder and CEO of the
Synaptica® group of companies, providers of enterprise software solutions
for knowledge organization and discovery. He served on the authoring
committee of the 2005 version of the US national standard for controlled
vocabularies, ANSI/NISO Z39.19. David leads research and development at
Synaptica, including software solutions for taxonomy and ontology
management, text analytics and auto-categorization, image annotation and
indexing, and Linked Data management. He is involved in educational
outreach programs including LD4PE, the Linked Data for Professional
Education initiative of DCMI. Synaptica software solutions have attracted
numerous international awards including: Knowledge Management World
magazine’s 100 Companies that Matter in KM and Trend Setting Product of the
Year (multiple awards between 2011 and 2017). In 2016 Clarke was awarded
the Knowledge Management Leadership Award by the Global Knowledge
Management Congress.

*For additional information about the workshop including background
information on the topic and to register, visit the conference website at *
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2017.
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[MCN-L] Workshop: NKOS at DC-2017

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*NKOS at DC-2017*
   *Full-day Workshop at DC-2017, Washington, DC, 26-29 October 2017*

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*:: Workshop Facilitators:*
   *Joseph Busch*, *Taxonomy Strategies*
   *Gail Hodges*, *Information International Associates*
*:: Time:* 8:30-5:30 DST
*:: Date:* 28 October 2017
*:: Session Homepage:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/
pages/view/sp17-nkos
*:: Registration:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/
pages/view/reg17

*Early registration ends Friday, 15 September 2017. *
*Register now and save! *
*Full conference and day rates are available.*
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SESSION DESCRIPTION:

The 11th U.S. Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop will
include: (1) Presentations, typically 20 minutes plus discussion time on
work related to the themes of the workshop (see below); and (2)
Demonstration on work related to the themes of the workshop.

WORKSHOP PRESENTERS:

*Courtney R. Butler*, *Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City*
*Joseph Busch*, *Taxonomy Strategies*
*Julaine Clunis*, *Kent State University*
*Brett D. Currier*, *Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City*
*Susan Pick Dubas*, *World Bank*
*Paul Groth*, *Elsevier Labs*
*Diane Hillman*, *Metadata Management Associates*
*Marjorie Hlava*, *Access Innovations*
*Gail Hodge*, *Information International Associates*
*Tao Hu*, *Kent State University*
*Michael Lauruhn*, *Elsevier Labs*
*Sujit Pal*, *Elsevier Labs*
*Cristina Pattuelli*, *Pratt Institute*
*Jon Phipps*, *Metadata Management Associate*s
*Denisa Popescu*, *World Bank*
*Jian Qin*, *Syracuse University*
*Hannah Sistrunk*, *Pratt Institute*
*Dagobert Soergel*, *SUNY Buffalo*
*Joseph Tennis*, *University of Washington*
*Nicholas Weber*, *University of Washington*
*Marcia Zeng*, *Kent State University*

For additional information about the workshop, presentations and to
register, visit the conference website at http://dcevents.dublincore.
org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2017.
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[MCN-L] DC-2017 Workshop - Metadata 2020: Accelerating Scholarly Discovery

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*Metadata 2020: Accelerating Scholarly Discovery*
  * Half Day Workshop at DC-2017, Washington, DC, 26-29 October 2017*

*==*
*:: Workshop Facilitators:*
*Clare Dean*, *Community Outreach Manager, Metadata 2020*
*Chuck Kosher*, *Director of Technology, Crossref*
*Patricia Feeney*, *Product Support Manager, Crossref*
*:: Time:* 8:30-12:30 DST
*:: Date:* Saturday, 28 October 2017
*:: Session Homepage: *
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/sp17-2020
*:: Registration:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg17

*Early registration ends 15 September 2017. **Register now and save! *
*Full conference and day rates are available.*
*==*

SESSION DESCRIPTION:

All of those who are involved in scholarly communications have the same end
goal: to conduct, facilitate and/or communicate research, and have that
research be discoverable. Whether they’re funders, authors, preprint
servers, publishers, libraries, repositories; or the numerous tools seeking
to add value through search, discovery, annotation, or analyses; so many of
these organizations contribute along the way but often important details
get mistyped, misrepresented, or missed out entirely.

We all face the same problem—how to include as much useful information as
possible. This includes basic information but also license information,
funding/grant data, ORCID iDs, organization IDs, clinical trial data,
and—along the way—corrections and retractions. How can we manage the
efficient entry and use of clean and complete metadata, in a way that can
grow and permeate through other systems usable by all in the scholarly
communications chain?

We envision a future with better metadata, not only increasing
discoverability of content, but also benefiting reputation management,
attribution, discoverability, efficiency, data reproducibility and
reusability, in addition to future services that don’t yet exist!

A group of organizations (including Crossref, DataCite, ORCID, OpenAIRE,
California Digital Library, Wikimedia, OCLC among others) have come
together to rally the community around this critical issue in scholarly
communications: sharing richer metadata.

Metadata 2020 is a collaboration that advocates richer, connected and
reusable metadata for all research outputs with the understanding that:

   - Richer metadata fuels discoverability and innovation;
   - Connected metadata bridges the gaps between systems and communities;
   - Reusable metadata eliminates duplication of effort.

We seek input from librarians, publishers, aggregators, service providers,
funders, data repositories and researchers, to share user stories and
insights about the journey that metadata takes, and to help prioritize
goals and tactics for Metadata 2020. Metadata 2020 is a campaign that is
bigger than just one organization or sector, but a collective
responsibility shared by us all.

This workshop invites contributions from specialists in the librarian
community to help advance the library element of a metadata maturity model.
This element will contribute to a larger maturity model in service of the
wider scholarly communications community.

WORKSHOP FACILITATORS:

*Clare Dean*, *Community Outreach Manager, Metadata 2020*

Clare Dean is the Community Outreach Manager for the advocacy campaign
Metadata 2020, founded by a number of organizations including Crossref,
DataCite, and ORCID. She is a publishing consultant for publishers and
service providers with over 12 years experience in the scholarly publishing
industry.


*Chuck Kosher*, *Director of Technology, Crossre*f

Chuck Koscher has been the Director of Technology for Crossref since 2002.
His primary responsibility has been the development and operation of
Crossref’s core services and technical infrastructure. As a senior staff
member, he also contributes to the definition of Crossref’s mission and the
expansion of its services such as the launch of Funding Data (formerly
known as FundRef). His role includes management of technical support and
back-end business operations. Chuck and his team interface directly with
publisher members in dealing with issues affected by new or evolving
industry practices such as those involving non-journal content like books,
standards and databases. Chuck has been active within the industry having
served 9 years on the NISO board of directors, and a participant in
initiatives such as the NISO/NFAIS Best practice in Journal Publishing and
NISO’s Supplemental Material Working Group. Prior to Crossref Chuck has
over 20 years in software engineering experience primarily in the aerospace
industry.


*Patricia Feeney*, *Product Support Manager, Crossref*

Patricia Feeney oversees Product Support and has been at Crossref for 10
years. She's also worked in publishing and as a systems librarian and
cataloger and knows a

[MCN-L] DC-2017 Special Session: Linked Data for Production (LD4P)

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*Linked Data for Production (LD4P): Technical services workflow evolution
through Tracer Bullets*
   *Special Session at DC-2017, Washington, D.C., 26-29 October 2017*

===
*:: Stanford University Presenters: *
   *Arcadia Falcone*, *Metadata Coordinator*
   *Josh Greben*, *Systems Programmer/Analyst*
   *Nancy Lorimer*, *Head, Metadata Department*
  * Christina Harlow*, *Digital Repository, Data Operations*
  * Philip Schreur*, *Associate University Librarian for Technical and
Access Services*
*:: Time:* 1:30-3:00 DST
*:: Date:* Thursday, 26 October 2017
*:: Session Homepage:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/sp17-ld4p
*:: Registration:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg17
===

SESSION DESCRIPTION:

Linked Data for Production (LD4P) is a Mellon-supported collaboration
between six institutions (Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Library of Congress,
Princeton, and Stanford) to begin the transition of technical services
production workflows to ones based in Linked Open Data (LOD). This first
phase of the transition focuses on the development of the ability to
produce metadata as LOD communally, the enhancement of the BIBFRAME
ontology to encompass the multiple resource formats that academic libraries
must process, and the engagement of the broader academic library community
to ensure a sustainable and extensible environment. As its name implies,
LD4P is focused on the immediate needs of metadata production such as
ontology coverage and workflow transition. The focus of LD4P is on the
identification, evaluation and adaption of existing viable tools to
immediate production needs. A related project, LD4L-Labs, focuses on
solutions that can be implemented in production at research libraries
within the next three to five years. Their efforts focus on the enhancement
and development of existing or new linked data creation and editing tools,
exploration of linked data relationships, analysis of the graph to directly
improve discovery, BIBFRAME ontology development, piloting efforts in URI
persistence, and metadata conversion tool development needed by LD4P and
the broader library community.

As part of LD4P, Stanford is leading the development of a Performed Music
Ontology and is converting four key technical services production pathways
from MARC-based to RDF-based in a project called the Tracer Bullets. In
this panel, we will discuss our work on these projects, highlighting
achievements and difficulties of current efforts, as well as plans for
future work. In this panel, we plan to discuss our work on these projects,
highlighting achievements and difficulties of current efforts, as well as
plans for future work. On the Performed Music Ontology, we will discuss our
work on extending BIBFRAME 2 with community input to better support
description of music artifacts. With regards to the “Tracer Bullets”, we
will go through the progress on our four designated end-to- end pathways:
vendor-supplied copy-cataloging (Tracer Bullet 1); original cataloging
(Tracer Bullet 2); deposit of a single item to the Digital Repository
(Tracer Bullet 3); and ingestion of a collection into the Digital
Repository (Tracer Bullet 4). We have examined each of these pathways, from
acquisition to discovery. Based on that analysis, we are converting all key
elements in those workflows to a process rooted in linked data, balanced
with the current needs and resources of the systems interacting with those
pathways. Our emphasis is on the completeness of the pathway, and we plan
for the workflows themselves to be expanded in the future to account for
additional complexities and fully leveraging the capabilities of the RDF
data models once our initial pathway has been established.

For these tracer bullet pathways, Stanford is developing parallel
processing streams. Resources flowing through these pathways will be
processed in the traditional way with MARC or MODS-based metadata. A
parallel, linked data workflow will be created for LD4P and duplicative
metadata created. This metadata currently feeds into a parallel discovery
environment so that we mimic the entire processing workflow. The metadata
can also be sent to various library vendors and programs so that they can
begin to adjust their businesses to incorporate linked data. Although this
solution requires duplicative effort, it will allow Stanford to experiment
with an alternative pathway without being dependent on the results for
discovery. It also has the benefit of testing the new pathway with actual
library resources and staff so that a true measure of effort and cost to
implement the new paradigm can be evaluated.

LD4P has completed the first year of its two-year grant and has made
substantial process on the Tracer Bullets. In our panel presentation, we’d
like to focus on five main areas:

PANEL PRESENTATI

[MCN-L] DC-2017 Full Day Session - Taming the Graph: Profiles over Linked Data

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*Taming the Graph: Profiles over Linked Data*
 *Full day session at DC-2017, Washington, D.C., **26-28 **October 2017*
* Day registration rates available*

*===*

*:: Presenters: *
   *Tom Baker*, *DCMI*
   *Karen Coyle*, *Consultant*
   *Stefanie Rühle*, *SUB Goettingen*
   *Kirk Hess*, *Library of Congress*
   *Mariana Malta*, *Polytechnic of Oporto*
   *Eric Prud'hommeaux*, *World Wide Web (W3C)*
   *Gregg Kellogg*, *Semantic Media Consultant*
   *Paul Walk*, University of *Edinburgh*
*:: Time:* 8:30am - 5:30pm EDT
*:: Date:* Friday, 27 October 2017
*:: Session Homepage:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/sp17-taming
*:: Registration:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg17

*===*

*SESSION DESCRIPTION:*

The idea of application profile was proposed at a Dublin Core workshop in
2000 as a way to customize metadata for specific application domains,
mixing-and-matching multiple metadata vocabularies as needed, and to share
these customizations within communities of practice. This day-long event
will start with a look back at how the discourse around profiles has
evolved since 2000, then it will examine new technologies that can help us
tame the boundless sea of Linked Data with controlled metadata. This event
is sponsored by the DCMI, which participates in W3C efforts to develop
standards relevant to profiles and seeks direction for its future work, and
by LD4, a coordinated program to advance the use and utility of linked data
in research and cultural heritage organizations, especially libraries.

*We ask the following questions:*

   - Can Linked Data conceptualization and design be enhanced with metadata
   profiles?
   - How can profiles provide different views: data validation vs
   discovery, strict vs tolerant?
   - How can we express profiles for processing by machines?
   - How can we publish profiles for human consumption?

*PRESENTERS:*

*Morning Session 1: The Role of Profiles (90 min)*

*"Application Profiles" since DC-2000*
Tom Baker, DCMI
   * Pieces of the profile puzzle*
Karen Coyle, Consultant
*Profiles and Data Quality*
Stefanie Rühle, SUB Goettingen

   * Morning Session 2: Developing and Using Profiles (90 min)*

*Requirements for BIBFRAME profiles*
Kirk Hess, Library of Congress
*Structured methods for developing profiles*
Mariana Malta, Polytechnic of Oporto
*Agile, data-driven methods for developing profiles*
Eric Prud'hommeaux, World Wide Web (W3C)
*Discussion*

*Afternoon Session 1: Expressing and Profiling Data (90 min)*

*JSON-LD: The data syntax and its uses*
Gregg Kellogg, *Semantic Media Consultant*
*ShEx: the Shapes Expression Language*
Eric Prud'hommeaux, World Wide Web (W3C)

*Afternoon Session 2: Sharing profiles (90 min)*

*Documenting profiles and vocabularies on the Web*
Paul Walk, Edinburgh University
   * Maintaining RDF vocabularies in spreadsheets*
Gregg Kellogg, *Semantic Media Consultant*
*Answering the questions posed*

Conference participants are free to attend any or all sessions or parts of
sessions. The event assumes familiarity with the basic concepts of RDF and
Linked Data. Participants will get more out of Afternoon Session 1 if they
prepare beforehand by reading (or watching videos) about JSON-LD [1] and by
perusing the ShEx Primer [2].

[1] https://json-ld.org/learn.html
[2] http://shex.io/shex-primer
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[MCN-L] Submission deadline EXTENDED for the NKOS Workshop at DC-2017

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*NKOS Workshop at DC-2017: Call for Participation Extended*

The 11th U.S. Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop will
take place on Saturday, October 28 as part of DC-2017 in Crystal City, VA
(Washington, D.C.). Proposals are invited for Presentations and Demos.

*Important Dates:*

*EXTENDED* *Submission deadline:* Monday, July 18, 2017
*Notification of acceptance:* Tuesday, August 15, 2017


*Submission:*

For more information and to submit a proposal, please visit the NKOS Call
for Participation at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/nkosCall on the
DC-2017 website.

*Workshop Themes:*

Research Data Management (RDM). NKOS welcomes presentations that focus on
the knowledge organization issues related to controlled vocabularies, name
authority, taxonomy, and other KOS to enable access to collections, e.g.,
in order to be able to replicate scientific results. What are the KOS
requirements related to data storage and preservation; and communication,
coordination and collaboration to support librarian and researcher needs?

Aggregation. The objective of linked open data is to provide distributed
access to vocabularies and content that uses vocabularies. Actually using
vocabularies to aggregate distributed content is a special case that
reconstructs collections that are now dispersed. Examples include
Renaissance artist sketchbooks, natural history collections from
enlightenment humanists, etc.

Metadata Enrichment. This theme relates to reusing existing metadata
sources and adding additional controlled vocabularies, name authority,
taxonomy, and other KOS to create new resources. E.g., building a new data
resource based on selecting content from the Code of Federal Regulations
and enriching the collection by adding new vocabularies.

Authority Control. How does authority control work in a global linked data
community? What agencies should and are willing to be responsible for the
names of public agencies, companies, subsidiaries, brands and trademarks,
and artists who constitute a national group based on birth place and/or
area of activity.

Metrics and Quality. How are controlled vocabularies, name authority,
taxonomy and other KOS quantified and qualified? What are the appropriate
dimensions of use and validation. Does Google Analytics have a role? Are
there other methods and practical applications?

Life Cycle Management. What is the common lifecycle of terms within
controlled vocabularies, name authority, taxonomy and other KOS? What are
the downstream impacts and best practices for handling of vocabulary
changes?


*Program Committee:*

   - Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies
   - Jane Greenberg, Drexel University
   - Diane Hillmann, Metadata Management Associates
   - Gail Hodge, Information International Associates
   - Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
   - Jian Qin, Syracuse University
   - Dagobert Soergel, University at Buffalo
   - Joseph Tennis, University of Washington
   - Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC Research
   - Marcia Zeng, Kent State University
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[MCN-L] DEADLINE EXTENSION to 12 June for DC-2017 submissions

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*DEADLINE EXTENSION: DC-2017 Call for Participation*
*Advancing metadata practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability*

The deadline for submission has been extended for the DC-2017 International
Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
 to be
held in Washington, D.C., USA, October 26-29, 2017. *The revised submission
deadline for all tracks is now 12 June 2017.* The revised Call for
Participation is available at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp.

Following up on DC-2016 in Copenhagen with its look towards the changing
role of metadata in the Second Machine Age, DC-2017 will focus on
technologies and practices that are advancing how we can create and manage
good metadata.  Interoperability and openness have been guiding principles
of the DCMI community for over twenty years, and these principles have
evolved through the development of Semantic Web standards and Linked Open
Data.  A deluge of new data sources is magnifying the perennial challenge
of metadata quality but also inspiring the development of innovative tools,
practices, and solutions, the focus of this year's conference.

*Submission categories include:*

   - Peer reviewed Papers, Project Reports and Posters;
   - Presentations on Metadata; (without paper);
   - Panels (Special Sessions);
   - Post-conference Tutorials and workshops.

Beyond the focus of the conference theme, submission of papers, reports,
presentations and poster are welcome in the following broad categories of
metadata design, deployment and maintenance:

   - Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
   - Curation, governance, and sustainability
   - Conceptual models and frameworks
   - Lessons from implementation
   - Interoperability and harmonization
   - Metadata quality and validation

*Program Committee Chairs:*

*Carol Jean Godby*, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research
*Mike Lauruhn*, Disruptive Technology Director, Elsevier Labs


For more information, visit the Call for Participation on the DC-2017
website .
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: How to Design & Build Semantic Applications with Linked Data

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*How to Design & Build Semantic Applications with Linked Data*
*DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar*

*=*
*:: Presenter:* Dave Clarke, Synaptica
*:: Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
   (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/Webinar-Clarke)
*:: Date: *Wednesday, 14 June 2017
*:: Registration: *http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017clarke
*=*

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

This webinar will demonstrate how to design and build rich end-user search
and discovery applications using Linked Data. The Linked Open Data cloud is
a rapidly growing collection of publicly accessible resources, which can be
adopted and reused to enrich both internal enterprise projects and
public-facing information systems.

The webinar will use the Linked Canvas application as its primary use-case.
Linked Canvas is an application designed by Synaptica for the cultural
heritage community. It enables high-resolution images of artworks and
artifacts to be catalogued and subject indexed using Linked Data. The talk
will demonstrate how property fields and relational predicates can be
adopted from open data ontologies and metadata schemes, such as DCMI, SKOS,
IIIF and the Web Annotation Model. Selections of properties and predicates
can then be recombined to create Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS)
customized for business applications. The demonstration will also
illustrate how very-large-scale subject taxonomies and name authority
files, such as the Library of Congress Name Authority File, DBpedia, and
the Getty Linked Open Data Vocabularies collection, can be used for content
enrichment and indexing.

There will be a brief discussion of the general principles of graph
databases, RDF triple stores, and the SPARQL query language. This technical
segment will discuss the pros and cons of accessing remote server endpoints
versus cached copies of external Linked Data resources, as well as the
challenge of providing high-performance full text search against graph
databases.

The webinar will conclude by providing a demonstration of Linked Canvas to
illustrate various end-user experiences that can be created with Linked
Data technology: faceted search across data collections; pinch and zoom
navigation inside images; the exploration of concepts and ideas associated
with specific points of interest; the discovery of conceptually related
images; and the creation of guided tours with embedded audio-visual
commentary.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTER:*

*Dave Clarke* is co-founder and CEO of the Synaptica® group of companies,
providers of enterprise software solutions for knowledge organization and
discovery. He served on the authoring committee responsible for the 2005
version of the US national standard for controlled vocabularies, ANSI/NISO
Z39.19. Dave leads research and development at Synaptica, where is
developing an extensive range of software solutions for ontology
management, image management, Linked Data management, and text analytics.
He is actively involved in educational outreach programs including LD4PE,
the Linked Data for Professional Education initiative of DCMI. Synaptica
software solutions have attracted numerous international awards including:
Knowledge Management World magazine’s 100 Companies that Matter in KM and
Trend Setting Product of the Year (multiple awards between 2011 and 2017).
In 2016 Clarke was awarded the Knowledge Management Leadership Award by the
Global Knowledge Management Congress.  Dave is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts, London, and an Associate of St. George’s House, Windsor
Castle. He is currently researching the impact of personalized search and
social media on social polarization and post-truth politics.
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: Me4MAP - A Method for the Development of Metadata Application Profiles

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Me4MAP: A Method for the Development of Metadata Application Profiles

*DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar*

*=*
*:: Presenter:* Mariana Curado Malta
*:: Dates:* Wednesday, 24 May 2017 (EN) | Wednesday, 31 May 2017 (PT)
*:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
   24 May: (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/2017Malta-EN) -
English
   31 May: (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/2017Malta-PT) -
Portuguese
*:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017Malta
*=*

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

A metadata application profile (MAP) is a construct that provides a
semantic model for enhancing interoperability when publishing to the Web of
Data. With a MAP, each property is defined as an RDF vocabulary term with
the definition of domain, range, and cardinality. According to the DCMI
document "Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata", a MAP is a
construct that enhances semantic interoperability. Therefore, when a
community of practice agrees to follow a MAP's set of rules for publishing
data as Linked Open Data, it makes it possible for such data published the
LOD cloud to be processed automatically by software agents.

A MAP is therefore a construct of great importance and the existence of a
method for its development is essential to give MAP developers a common
ground on which to work. The absence of such a method leads to a
non-systematic set of MAP development activities that might result in MAPs
with less quality.

This Webinar will present Me4MAP, a method for the development of metadata
application profiles. Me4MAP was defined in the context of a PhD and is
still now being tested and refined. It is a method that is approached
through a software engineering perspective. With Me4MAP, we do not propose
a universal solution; rather, our intention is to establish a starting
point for the study and design of methods for the development of MAPs.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTER:*

Mariana Curado Malta is an Associate Professor at Polythecnic of Oporto,
Portugal and a researcher in CEOS.PP, Portugal. Currently, she is on leave
in the Laboratorio de Inovación en Humanidades Digitales in the Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid, Spain. Her research work is
framed in a project (POSTDATA), financed by a European Research Council
Starting Grant that aims to publish poetry data (and related data) as
Linked Open Data. In POSTDATA she is responsible for the semantic
modelling. Her research interests are related to methods for the
development of metadata application profiles and the quality of MAPs in
particular and metadata in general. She is the co-author of Me4MAP, a
method for the development of metadata application profiles. Mariana Curado
Malta has a PhD in Technologies and Information Systems from University of
Minho, Portugal. She is the author of several research papers, book
chapters, and recently co-edited the book “Developing metadata application
profiles” published by IGI Global.
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[MCN-L] Second Call for DC-2017 Participation, Washington, D.C., October 26-29

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*==Please excuse the cross-posting==*

2nd Call for DC-2017 Participation
*Theme: Advancing Metadata Practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability*

The deadline for submission is only one month away for the DC-2017
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
 to be
held in Washington, D.C., USA, October 26-29, 2017. The Call for
Participation is available at http://dcevents.dublincore.
org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp.

Following up on DC-2016 in Copenhagen with its look towards the changing
role of metadata in the Second Machine Age, DC-2017 will focus on
technologies and practices that are advancing how we can create and manage
good metadata.  Interoperability and openness have been guiding principles
of the DCMI community for over twenty years, and these principles have
evolved through the development of Semantic Web standards and Linked Open
Data.  A deluge of new data sources is magnifying the perennial challenge
of metadata quality but also inspiring the development of innovative tools,
practices, and solutions, the focus of this year's conference.

Submission categories include:

   - Peer reviewed Papers, Project Reports and Posters;
   - Presentations on Metadata; (without paper);
   - Panels (Special Sessions);
   - Post-conference Tutorials and workshops.

Beyond the focus of the conference theme, submission of papers, reports,
presentations and poster are welcome in the following broad categories of
metadata design, deployment and maintenance:

   - Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
   - Curation, governance, and sustainability
   - Conceptual models and frameworks
   - Lessons from implementation
   - Interoperability and harmonization
   - Metadata quality and validation

*The Program Committee Chairs:*

*Carol Jean Godby*, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research
*Mike Lauruhn*, Disruptive Technology Director, Elsevier Labs


For more information, visit the *Call for Participation* on the DC-2017
website .
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[MCN-L] NKOS Workshop at DC-2017: Call for Participation

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*==Please excuse the cross-posting==*

*NKOS Workshop at DC-2017: Call for Participation*

The 11th U.S. *Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop* will
take place on Saturday, October 28 as part of DC-2017
 in
Crystal City, VA (Washington, D.C.). Proposals are invited for
*Presentations* and *Demos*.

*Important Dates:*

*Submission deadline:* Friday, June 30, 2017
*Notification of acceptance:* Tuesday, August 15, 2017


*Submission:*

For more information and to submit a proposal, please visit the NKOS Call
for Participation at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/nkosCall on the
DC-2017 website.

*Workshop Themes:*

*Research Data Management (RDM).* NKOS welcomes presentations that focus on
the knowledge organization issues related to controlled vocabularies, name
authority, taxonomy, and other KOS to enable access to collections, e.g.,
in order to be able to replicate scientific results. What are the KOS
requirements related to data storage and preservation; and communication,
coordination and collaboration to support librarian and researcher needs?

*Aggregation.* The objective of linked open data is to provide distributed
access to vocabularies and content that uses vocabularies. Actually using
vocabularies to aggregate distributed content is a special case that
reconstructs collections that are now dispersed. Examples include
Renaissance artist sketchbooks, natural history collections from
enlightenment humanists, etc.

*Metadata Enrichment.* This theme relates to reusing existing metadata
sources and adding additional controlled vocabularies, name authority,
taxonomy, and other KOS to create new resources. E.g., building a new data
resource based on selecting content from the Code of Federal Regulations
and enriching the collection by adding new vocabularies.

*Authority Control.* How does authority control work in a global linked
data community? What agencies should and are willing to be responsible for
the names of public agencies, companies, subsidiaries, brands and
trademarks, and artists who constitute a national group based on birth
place and/or area of activity.

*Metrics and Quality.* How are controlled vocabularies, name authority,
taxonomy and other KOS quantified and qualified? What are the appropriate
dimensions of use and validation. Does Google Analytics have a role? Are
there other methods and practical applications?

*Life Cycle Management.* What is the common lifecycle of terms within
controlled vocabularies, name authority, taxonomy and other KOS? What are
the downstream impacts and best practices for handling of vocabulary
changes?

*NKOS Program Committee:*

*Joseph Busch,* Taxonomy Strategies
*Jane Greenberg,* Drexel University
*Diane Hillman,* Metadata Management Associates
*Gail Hodge,* Information International Associates
*Kathryn La Barre,* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
*Jian Qin,* Syracuse University
*Dagobert Soergel,* University at Buffalo
*Joseph Tennis,* University of Washington
*Diane Vizine-Goetz,* OCLC Research
*Marcia Zeng,* Kent State University
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[MCN-L] Webinar: Nailing Jello to a Wall: Metrics, Frameworks, & Existing Work for Metadata Assessment

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*Nailing Jello to a Wall: Metrics, Frameworks, & Existing Work for Metadata
Assessment*

*DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar*
*with **Christina Harlow**, Cornell University Library*

*===*
*:: Presenter:* Christina Harlow
*:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
(UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/Harlow-2017)
*:: Date: *Thursday, 27 April 2017
*:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017harlow
*===*

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

With the increasing number of repositories, standards and resources we
manage for digital libraries, there is a growing need to assess, validate
and analyze our metadata - beyond our traditional approaches such as
writing XSD or generating CSVs for manual review. Being able to further
analyze and determine measures of metadata quality helps us better manage
our data and data-driven development, particularly with the shift to Linked
Open Data leading many institutions to large-scale migrations. Yet, the
semantically-rich metadata desired by many Cultural Heritage Institutions,
and the granular expectations of some of our data models, makes performing
assessment, much less going on to determine quality or performing
validation, that much trickier. How do we handle analysis of the rich
understandings we have built into our Cultural Heritage Institutions'
metadata and enable ourselves to perform this analysis with the systems and
resources we have?

This webinar sets up this question and proposes some guidelines, best
practices, tools and workflows around the evaluation of metadata used by
and for digital libraries and Cultural Heritage Institution repositories.
What metrics have other researchers or practitioners applied to measure
their definition of quality? How do these metrics or definitions for
quality compare across examples – from the large and aggregation-focused,
like Europeana, to the relatively small and project-focused, like Cornell
University Library's own SharedShelf instance? Do any metadata assessment
frameworks exist, and how do they compare to the proposed approaches in
core literature in this area, such as Thomas Bruce and Diane Hillmann's
2004 article, "The Continuum of Metadata Quality"? The Digital Library
Federation Assessment Interest Group (or DLF AIG) has a Metadata Working
Group that has been attempting to build a framework that can be used
broadly for digital repository metadata assessment - the state of this
work, and the issues it has raised, will be discussed in this webinar as
well. Finally, how does one begin to approach this metadata assessment –
what tools, applications, or efforts for performing assessment exist for
common digital repository applications or data publication mechanisms?

This webinar hopes to provide some solutions to these questions within
existing literature, work, and examples of metadata assessment happening
'on the ground'. The goal is for webinar participants to walk away prepared
to handle their own metadata assessment needs by using the existing work
outlined and being better aware of the open questions in this domain.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTER:*

*Christina Harlow* works on metadata operations for the Cornell University
Library. This work involves building out data infrastructure, ETL (extract
transform load) functions, and Linked Open Data usage in service of
distributed metadata management for Cornell's library repositories and
systems.
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: Data on the Web Best Practices: Challenges and Benefits

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*Data on the Web Best Practices: Challenges and Benefits*
*DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar*

*===*
*:: Presenters:* Bernadette Farias Lóscio, Newton Calegari,
 Caroline Burle dos Santos Guimarães
*:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
   (UTC 14:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/20170406-en)
*:: Date:* Thursday, 6 April 2017
*:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017DataBP
*===*

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

There is a growing interest in the publication and consumption of data on
the Web. Government and non-governmental organizations already provide a
variety of data on the Web, some open, others with access restrictions,
covering a variety of domains such as education, economics, e-commerce and
scientific data. Developers, journalists, and others manipulate this data
to create visualizations and perform data analysis. Experience in this area
reveals that a number of important issues need to be addressed in order to
meet the requirements of both publishers and data consumers.

In this webinar we will discuss the key challenges faced by publishers and
data consumers when sharing data on the Web. We will also introduce the W3C
Best Practices set (https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/)to address these
challenges. Finally, we will discuss the benefits of engaging data
publishers in the use of Best Practices, as well as improving the way data
sets are made available on the Web.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:*

*Bernadette Farias Lóscio* holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Federal
University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She worked as an Adjunct Professor at the
Federal University of Ceará and did postdoctoral studies at the University
of Manchester. Since 2010, she has been an Adjunct Professor at the Federal
University of Pernambuco, Brazil. In recent years, she has provided
consulting services to W3C Brazil and to the City Hall of Recife in
projects in the Open Data area. It is one of the publishers of Data on the
Web Best Practices, a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C), which offers good practices related to the publication and use of
data on the Web. Its main areas of interest are: Web Data, Data Open,
Semantic Web, Data Integration, Web of Things and Big Data.

*Caroline Burle dos Santos Guimarães* is responsible for the Institutional
Relations of the Center for Studies on Web Technologies (Ceweb.br) and W3C
Brasil. He is a specialist in Negotiation for the Getúlio Vargas Foundation
and a Master in International Relations from San Tiago Dantas. He is a
member of the Center for Studies and International Analysis and Fellow of
the OAS Open Government Program in the Americas. It is one of the
publishers of the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices document. Research on
open government, international relations and foreign policy, with
experience in the work of subnational governments in the area of web, open
data and Internet governance.

*Newton Calegari* holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a
Master's Degree in Digital Intelligence and Design Technologies (TIDD) from
the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). He is a project
leader at the Center for the Study of Web Technologies at NIC.br (Ceweb.br)
and at the W3C Brazil office. He is one of the editors of the W3C Data on
the Web Best Practices recommendation. Research and work in the area of
Semantic Web, Open Web Platform, standardization and emerging Web
technologies.
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[MCN-L] DCMI publishes Call for Participation for DC-2017 (Washington, D.C.)

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*==Please excuse the cross-posting==*


*DC-2017 Call for Participation*

*Advancing metadata practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability*

DCMI has published the *Call for Participation*
 for the
DC-2017  *International
Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications* to be held in
Washington, D.C., USA, October 26-29, 2017. The conference will be
collocated with the ASIS&T Annual Meeting
.

Following up on DC-2016 in Copenhagen, with its look towards the changing
role of metadata in the Second Machine Age, DC-2017 will focus on
technologies and practices that are advancing how we can create and manage
good metadata.  Interoperability and openness have been guiding principles
of the DCMI community for over twenty years, and these principles have
evolved through the development of Semantic Web standards and Linked Open
Data.  A deluge of new data sources is magnifying the perennial challenge
of metadata quality but also inspiring the development of innovative tools,
practices, and solutions, the focus of this year's conference.

*Submission categories include: *

   - Peer reviewed Papers, Project Reports and Posters;
   - Presentations on Metadata; (without paper);
   - Panels (Special Sessions);
   - Post-conference Tutorials; and
   - Post-Conference Workshops.

Beyond the focus of the conference theme, submission of papers, project
reports, presentations and posters are welcome in the following broad
categories of metadata design, deployment and best practices:

   - Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
   - Curation, governance, and sustainability
   - Conceptual models and frameworks
   - Lessons from implementation
   - Interoperability and harmonization
   - Metadata quality and validation

*Program Committee Chairs:*

*Carol Jean Godby*, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research
*Mike Lauruhn*, Disruptive Technology Director, Elsevier Labs

For more information, visit the *Call for Participation* page at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp on the DC-2017
website
.
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: From MARC silos to Linked Data silos? Data models for bibliographic Linked Data

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***PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING***

*From MARC silos to Linked Data silos? Data models for bibliographic Linked
Data*

*DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar*

*===*
*:: Presenter:* Osma Suominen
*:: Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EST
   (UTC 15:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/suominen-2017)
*:: Date:* Tuesday, 28 February 2017
*:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017suominen
*===*

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

Many libraries are experimenting with publishing their metadata as Linked
Data to open up bibliographic silos, usually based on MARC records, to the
Web. The libraries who have published Linked Data have all used different
data models for structuring their bibliographic data. Some are using a
FRBR-based model where Works, Expressions and Manifestations are
represented separately. Others have chosen basic Dublin Core, dumbing down
their data into a lowest common denominator format. The proliferation of
data models limits the reusability of bibliographic data. In effect,
libraries have moved from MARC silos to Linked Data silos of incompatible
data models. There is currently no universal model for how to represent
bibliographic metadata as Linked Data, even though many attempts for such a
model have been made.

In this webinar, you’ll see:

   - a survey of published bibliographic Linked Data, the data models
   proposed for representing bibliographic data as RDF, and tools used for
   conversion from MARC records
   - an analysis of different use cases for bibliographic Linked Data and
   how they affect the data model
   - recommendations for choosing a data model

We also present efforts at the National Library of Finland to open up our
bibliographic metadata, including the national bibliography Fennica, the
national discography Viola and the article database Arto, as Linked Data
while trying to learn from the examples of others. We are setting up a
conversion process from MARC records to BIBFRAME and Schema.org compliant
RDF, which we are going to publish as Linked Data using various
technologies including a SPARQL endpoint, HDT compressed RDF dumps and a
Linked Data Fragments API.

*This webinar is an extended, in-depth version of the SWIB16 conference
presentation ”From MARC silos to Linked Data silos?”*

*Minimum Experience Level: *

Basic familiarity of bibliographic metadata and Linked Data assumed


*ABOUT THE PRESENTER:*

*Osma Suominen* works as an information systems specialist at the National
Library of Finland. His current activities are centered around the
publishing of bibliographic data, including the Finnish national
bibliography Fennica, as Linked Data. He is also one of the creators of the
Finto.fi  thesaurus and ontology service and is leading
development of the Skosmos vocabulary browser used in Finto. Osma Suominen
earned his doctoral degree at Aalto University while doing research on
semantic portals and quality of controlled vocabularies within the FinnONTO
series of projects. His past accomplishments include the Skosify vocabulary
analysis and quality improvement tool, and data.aalto.fi, the Linked Data
service of Aalto University.
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[MCN-L] Don't miss DC-2016 in Copenhagen! Early registration ends 2 September 2016

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Please excuse the cross-posting

*Don't miss DC-2016 in Copenhagen! *
*Early registration ends 2 September 2016*

*Join us at DC-2016 in Copenhagen* for four days of update on what's
happening in the metadata ecosystem, or, time permitting, stay on for six
days of intense interactions with both your metadata colleagues and the
information science community. The DC-2016 program consists of an array of
presentations, keynote, lightning talks, papers, project reports, posters,
special sessions, and workshops. Follow the link below to review the
program -- titles in the program schedule link to abstracts.

*==*
*:: DC-2016 CONFERENCE WEBSITE:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/

*:: DC-2016 REGISTRATION:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg16
*:: DC-2016 FINAL PROGRAM:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/program

*==*

Significant registration savings are available for both DCMI members or
ASIS&T members wishing to attend both of the collocated DC-2016 and ASIS&T
Annual Meeting. DCMI members can register for ASIS&T 2016 at ASIS&T member
rates and ASIS&T members can register for DC-2016 at DCMI member rates. To
review the ASIS&T program, visit the ASIS&T Program Page with the link
below.

*==*
*:: ASIS&T ANNUAL MEETING WEBSITE:*
https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/
*:: ASIS&T PROGRAM:*

https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/program/
*:: ASIS&T SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS:*
https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/seminars-and-workshops/
*:: ASIS&T REGISTRATION:*
https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/register/
*==*

*See you in Copenhagen!*
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[MCN-L] DC-2016 FINAL PROGRAM PUBLISHED

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*Please excuse the cross-posting *

*DC-2016 FINAL PROGRAM PUBLISHED*

DCMI is pleased to announce publication of the final program for the
upcoming DC-2016 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-16 October 2016. The
program consists of an array of presentations, lightning talks, papers,
project reports, posters, special sessions, and workshops. Follow the Final
Program link below to review the program -- titles in the schedule link to
abstracts. Online registration is open with early rates available through 2
September 2016.

*==*
*:: DC-2016 CONFERENCE WEBSITE:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/
*:: DC-2016 FINAL PROGRAM:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/program
*:: DC-2016 REGISTRATION:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg16
*==*

Significant registration savings are available for both DCMI Individual
Members or ASIS&T Individual Members wishing to attend *both* of the
collocated conferences. *DCMI members can register for ASIS&T 2016 at
ASIS&T member rates and ASIS&T members can register for DC-2016 at DCMI
member rates.* To review the ASIS&T program, visit the ASIS&T links below.

*==*
*:: ASIS&T ANNUAL MEETING WEBSITE:*
https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/
*:: ASIS&T PROGRAM:*
https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-
meeting-2016/program/
*:: ASIS&T SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS:*
https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-
2016/seminars-and-workshops/
*:: ASIS&T REGISTRATION:*
https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/register/
*==*

J*oin us in Copenhagen for DC-2016* with four days of update on what's
happening in the metadata ecosystem, or, time permitting, stay on for six
days of intense interactions with both your metadata colleagues and the
information science community.

*Become a DCMI Individual Member and save on registration!*  http://
dublincore.org/support/#individualMember
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[MCN-L] IFLA Satellite Meeting: Dublin Core @ 21

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*== Apologies for Cross Posting **==*

*Registration is now open for:*

*Dublin Core @ 21*

*Satellite meeting of the 2016 IFLA World Library and Information Congress
(13-19 August, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio, USA) *


The event is co-sponsored by:


   - IFLA Information Technology Section
   - DCMI (The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative)

*===*
*Date/time:*

Friday, August 19, 2016 from 11:30 AM to 7:00 PM (EDT)

*Where:*

The Conference Center at OCLC

(Lakeside Room) 6600 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017

*Official Schedule:*

http://lanyrd.com/2016/dublin-core-at-21/

*Register:*

https://dublincoreat21.eventbrite.com

($85 including lunch and afternoon break. Note: a complimentary reception
will follow the event)

*Transportation and Hotel Information*:

https://www.oclc.org/events/2016/ifla-2016/dc21.en.html

(including discounted hotels in Dublin)

*===*

*Dublin Core @ 21* celebrates DC's amazing 21 year history.

The Dublin Core originated in 1995 at a meeting at OCLC. This special event
will bring a historical view from people who were there when the Web was
young, and Dublin Core was new and evolving rapidly.

The Web does not stand still. Presentations will provide information on the
latest metadata standards-related work underway by DCMI (The Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative) and OCLC's current work with metadata models,
standards, and technologies advancing the state of the art for libraries
and archives.

Presenters and others in attendance will include metadata experts with long
ties to Dublin Core including several who were at the original invitational
meeting in 1995. A panel discussion will permit speakers and attendees to
reflect on activities and trends past and present, and project what the
future will look like.

*Schedule:*

*9:00am*

Tour of OCLC (optional) [see
http://2016.ifla.org/programme/library-visits/local-library-visits ]

*11:30am*

Registration

*12:00pm*

Lunch

*1:00pm*

Welcome and Opening presented by May Chang and Thom Hickey

*1:15pm*

The Geeks, the Freaks, and the People with Sensible Shoes: Reflections on
the origins of the Dublin Core / presented by Stuart Weibel

*2:00pm*

Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) project  /presented by Mike
Crandall

*2:30pm*

>From Dublin Core to Linked Data: Some Milestones in OCLC's Journey Beyond
MARC  /presented by Jean Godby

*3:30pm*

Dublin Core at 21: Personal reflections / presented by Stuart Sutton

*4:00pm*

Panel Discussion (The day's speakers & others with Dublin Core stories to
tell)

*5:15pm*

Closing remarks / presented by Joseph T. Tennis, DCMI Governing Board Chair

*5:30pm*

Reception (sponsored by OCLC)

Attendees are invited to attend a complimentary wine & appetizer reception
and special unveiling following the presentation portion of the day.
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[MCN-L] FINAL call for DC-2016 Presentations & Best Practice Posters/Demos

[DCMI Announce]

Please excuse the cross-posting

*Final Call for DC-2016 Presentation & Poster Submissions*

The submission deadline is rapidly approaching for the *Presentations*
and *Best
Practice Posters & Demos* tracks at DC-2016. Both presentations and
posters/demos provide the opportunity for practitioners and researchers
specializing in metadata design, implementation, and use to present their
work as well as work in progress at the *International Conference on Dublin
Core and Metadata Applications* in Copenhagen. *No paper is required for
presentations or posters/demos*. Accepted submissions in the
*Presentations* track
will have approximately 20-25 minutes to present and 5-10 minutes for
questions and discussion.

Proposal abstracts will be reviewed for selection by the Program Committee.
The presentation slide decks and the poster images will be openly available
as part of the permanent record of the DC-2016 conference.

If you are interested in presenting at DC-2016, please submit a proposal
abstract through the DC-2016 submission system before the 15 July deadline.

*==*
*:: Submission Deadline:* 15 July 2016
*:: Presenter Notice:* 22 July 2016
*:: Presentation Track Description:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/pre16
*:: Submission System:*

http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/cfp
*:: Conference Website:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/
*==*

*Best Practice Posters & Demos* on work on topics from across the metadata
ecosystem are invited. For the *Presentation* track, submissions are
encouraged in the following *broad* themes:

:: Identifiers, persistent or not
:: Metadata profiles and validation
:: Maintaining vocabularies
:: Practicalities of data integration


Program Committee Chairs:

*Technical Program:*

 ::* Valentine Charles*, Europeana Foundation, Netherlands
 :: *Lars G. Svensson*, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany

*Professional Program:*

 ::* Thomas Baker*, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, & Dublin Core
 Metadata Initiative (DCMI), Germany
 *:: Michael D. Crandall*, University of Washington, United States
 *:: Stuart A. Sutton*, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), United
States


*Full Organizing Committee:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/about/organizingTeam
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[MCN-L] NKOS Workshop - Second Call for Presentations and Demos

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===Please excuse the cross-posting===

*NKOS Workshop: Second Call for Presentations and Demos*

*The 16th European NKOS workshop will take place on Saturday 15th October
as part of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata
Applications 2016 (DC 2016) in Copenhagen, Denmark.*


*:: Submission deadline:* Friday, 8 July 2016 *(now extended!)*
*:: Notification of acceptance:* Tuesday, 16th August 2016
*:: Email proposal submissions to:* koraljka.go...@lnu.se
*:: Additional Workshop information:*
https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2016-dc/call-for-papers.html

*:: DC-2016 Conference website:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016


*Proposals are invited for the following:*

a) *Presentations* (typically 20 minutes plus discussion time, potentially
longer if warranted) on work related to the themes of the workshop (see
below). An option for a short 5 minute project report presentation is also
possible.

b) *Demos* on work related to the themes of the workshop (see below).


*Please email proposals* (maximum 1000 words for presentations and 500
words for demos, including aims, methods, main findings and underlying
work, relevance to themes of workshop) to Koraljka Golub (
koraljka.go...@lnu.se). Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program
committee. At least one presentation author needs to register for the
workshop (this is a strict requirement).


*Themes for the 16th NKOS workshop will be:*

(1) KOS Alignment. KOS alignment or terminology mapping plays a vital role
in NKOS for many years. This year we want to sort out the needs (use cases)
of KOS alignments in the new environment of Linked Open Data. We plan to
collect methodologies, best practices, guidelines and tools. This includes
manual and automatic alignments.
(2) KOS Linked Open Data. Recent years have seen an increasing trend to
publication of KOS as Linked Data vocabularies. We need discussion of
practical initiatives to link between congruent vocabularies and provide
effective web services and APIs so that applications can build upon them.
(3) Subject metadata for research data. With increasing recognition of the
need to manage research data as part of universities research output,
subject metadata represent particular challenges that need to be addressed
from theoretical as well as practical perspectives. We plan to discuss
existing issues, especially in terms of interoperability across disciplines
as well as applications, and strive towards establishment of best practices
and guidelines.

*Further timely presentations/demonstrations will be selected from the
following topics in the CfP:*

(4) KOS-based recommender systems. The suggestion of the right meaningful
concepts is a mission critical phase for searchers in modern DL.
(5) Meaningful Concept Display and Meaningful Visualization of KOS.
(6) Standards developments.
(7) Evaluation of KOS-based systems – methods and practical experience.

*KOS applications are a regular and important part of NKOS workshops.
Example topics include:*

(8) KOS in e-Research metadata contexts - intersection between research
data, KOS, Semantic web.
(9) Social tagging. What is the role of social tagging and informal
knowledge structures versus established KOS? (How) can tagging be guided
and informed by KOS?
(10) Users interaction with KOS in the online environment.
(11) KOS and learning. What is required to use KOS effectively to convey
meaning, to assist users to express their information needs to assist in
sense making and learning?
(12) Multilingual and Interdisciplinary KOS applications and tools.
(13) Specific domains, such as environmental, medical, new application
contexts, etc.

After the workshop, copies of both proposals and presentations will be made
available on both the workshop website and the DC-2016 conference website.
Submissions are subject to the DCMI copyright provisions (
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/about/submissions#copyrightNotice).
Presentations from the workshop may be encouraged to be submitted as
extended papers for a peer reviewed journal publication.

Best regards,
*NKOS workshop organizing committee*

*:: Koraljka Golub* (primary contact), Department of Library and
Information Science, School of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and
Humanities, Linnaeus University | 351 95 Växjö | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470
70 8909 | Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 | E-mail: koraljka.go...@lnu.se |
http://koraljka.info
*:: Joacim Hansson*, Department of Library and Information Science, School
of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University,
Sweden
*:: Maria Johnsson*, Section of Scholarly Communication, Lund University
Library, Lund University, Sweden
*:: Monica Lassi*, Section of Scholarly Communication, Lund University
Library, Lund University, Sweden
*:: Douglas Tudhope*, Hyper

[MCN-L] New Presentations Track opened for DC-2016 in Copenhagen

[DCMI Announce]

Please excuse the cross-posting

*NEW 'PRESENTATIONS TRACK' AT DC-2016*

In order to make it easier for metadata practitioners to present their
work, the Program Committee for DC-2016 has opened a new *Presentations
Track *
providing
the opportunity to present their on interesting metadata topics under four
*broad* themes. *No paper is required**.*

Proposal abstracts will be reviewed for selection by the Program
Committee. The presentation slide decks will be openly available as part of
the permanent record of the DC-2016 conference.

If you are interested in presenting at DC-2016, please submit a proposal
abstract of approximately 250-500 words through the «DC-2016 submission
system

». *Select the Presentations track*.

*==*
*:: Submission Deadline:* 15 July 2016
*:: Presenter Notice:* 22 July 2016
*:: Track Description & Submission: *
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/pre16
*:: Conference Website:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/
*==*

*Themes:*

   - Identifiers, persistent or not
   - Metadata profiles and validation
   - Maintaining vocabularies
   - Practicalities of data integration

*Program Committee Chairs:*

*Technical Program:*

*Valentine Charles,* Europeana Foundation, Netherlands
*Lars G. Svensson,* Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany

*Professional Program:*

*Thomas Baker,* Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, & Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI), Germany
*Michael D. Crandall,* University of Washington, United States
*Stuart A. Sutton,* Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), United States


*Full Organizing Committee:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/about/organizingTeam
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[MCN-L] Call for Participation and Demos: NKOS Dublin Core workshop

[DCMI Announce]

***Apologies for Cross-Posting***



16th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at
the

*International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2016 (DC
2016)*



*Call for Presentations and Demos*



The 16th European NKOS workshop will take place on Saturday 15th October as
part of DC 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark.



Important Dates:

*Submission deadline:* Friday, 1 July 2016

*Notification of acceptance:* Tuesday, 16th August 2016



Proposals are invited for the following:



a) *Presentations* (typically 20 minutes plus discussion time, potentially
longer if warranted) on work related to the themes of the workshop (see
below). An option for a short 5 minute project report presentation is also
possible.



b) *Demos* on work related to the themes of the workshop (see below).



Please email proposals (maximum 1000 words for presentations and 500 words
for demos, including aims, methods, main findings and underlying work,
relevance to themes of workshop) to Koraljka Golub (koraljka.go...@lnu.se).
Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. At least one
presentation author needs to register for the workshop (this is a strict
requirement).



After the workshop, copies of both proposals and presentations will be made
available on the workshop website as well as be subject to the DCMI
copyright provisions (
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/about/submissions#copyrightNotice).
Presentations from the workshop may be encouraged to be submitted as
extended papers for a peer reviewed journal publication.



*Themes for the 16th NKOS workshop will be:*


(1) KOS Alignment. KOS alignment or terminology mapping plays a vital role
in NKOS for many years. This year we want to sort out the needs (use cases)
of KOS alignments in the new environment of Linked Open Data. We plan to
collect methodologies, best practices, guidelines and tools. This includes
manual and automatic alignments.

(2) KOS Linked Open Data. Recent years have seen an increasing trend to
publication of KOS as Linked Data vocabularies. We need discussion of
practical initiatives to link between congruent vocabularies and provide
effective web services and APIs so that applications can build upon them.

(3) Subject metadata for research data. With increasing recognition of the
need to manage research data as part of universities research output,
subject metadata represent particular challenges that need to be addressed
from theoretical as well as practical perspectives. We plan to discuss
existing issues, especially in terms of interoperability across disciplines
as well as applications, and strive towards establishment of best practices
and guidelines.



*Further timely presentations/demonstrations will be selected from the
following topics in the CfP:*


(4) KOS-based recommender systems. The suggestion of the right meaningful
concepts is a mission critical phase for searchers in modern DL.

(5) Meaningful Concept Display and Meaningful Visualization of KOS.

(6) Standards developments.

(7) Evaluation of KOS-based systems – methods and practical experience.


*KOS applications are a regular and important part of NKOS workshops.
Example topics include:*


(8) KOS in e-Research metadata contexts - intersection between research
data, KOS, Semantic web.

(9) Social tagging. What is the role of social tagging and informal
knowledge structures versus established KOS? (How) can tagging be guided
and informed by KOS?

(10) Users interaction with KOS in the online environment.

(11) KOS and learning. What is required to use KOS effectively to convey
meaning, to assist users to express their information needs to assist in
sense making and learning?

(12) Multilingual and Interdisciplinary KOS applications and tools.

(13) Specific domains, such as environmental, medical, new application
contexts, etc.



More information on the workshop can be found under



https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2016-dc/call-for-papers.html



We hope to see you in Copenhagen, Denmark.



Please note that workshop presenter entry into Denmark may be subject to Visa
requirements (see

https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/visa/visa.htm).



Best regards,

NKOS workshop organizing committee


*Koraljka Golub (primary contact)*, Department of Library and Information
Science, School of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
Linnaeus University | 351 95 Växjö | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470 70 8909 |
Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 | E-mail:koraljka.go...@lnu.se |
http://koraljka.info

*Joacim Hansson*, Department of Library and Information Science, School of
Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University |
351 95 Växjö | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470 70 8971 | Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 |
E-mail: joacim.hans...@lnu.se |

*Maria Johnsson*, Section of Scholarly Communication, Lund University
Library, Lund University | PO Box 3, SE-22100 Lund | Sw

[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: Modeling and Publishing of Controlled Vocabularies for the UNESKOS Project

[DCMI Announce]

***PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING***

*DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar:*

Modeling and Publishing of Controlled Vocabularies for the UNESKOS Project

*Note: To be presented in Spanish*

*=*
*:: Presenter:* Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez
*:: Times: 10:00am* - 11:15am EDT
   (UTC 14:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/webinar-sánchez)
*:: Date: *Wednesday, 18 May 2016
*:: Free Registration: *
http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2016sanchez
*=*

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

This webinar presents the modeling and publishing process of the
vocabularies for the UNESKOS project by applying Semantic Web technologies.
More specifically, the vocabularies represented are the UNESCO Thesaurus
and the Nomenclature for fields of Science and Technology. Both
vocabularies are published as RDF datasets with a structure that allows its
query and reuse according to the principles of Linked Open Data. The
webinar will demonstrate the application of ISO-25964 standard to represent
the UNESCO thesaurus using SKOS and the ISO-THES ontology. Technological
solutions used for the project will also be discussed.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTER:*

*Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez* is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Information and Documentation at the University of Murcia in Spain with
specializations in Library Science and Documentation. He holds a PhD from
the University of Murcia. He performs research in the areas of theory and
models of hypertext, automation in thesaurus management, technology models
for the management of information and knowledge organization, techniques
and specifications for the Semantic Web, and accessibility, usability and
information architecture for the Web.
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar Series: Generic Tools and Methods for SKOS-based Concept Schemes

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***PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING***

*DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar Series in partnership with AIMS: Agricultural
Information Management Standards*

SKOS in Two Parts: Generic Tools and Methods for SKOS-based Concept Schemes


*with Joachim Neubert (ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics,
Germany) & Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland)*

**
*:: Dates:* Wednesday, 16 March 2016 &
   Wednesday,  6 April 2016
*:: Time: * 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00:00)
*:: Registration Information: *
   http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2016neubert
**

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR SERIES:*

In the past seven years, SKOS has become a widely recognized and used
common interchange format for thesauri, classifications, and other types of
vocabularies. This has opened a huge opportunity for the development of
generic tools and methods that should apply to all vocabularies that can be
expressed in SKOS. While expensive, proprietary or custom-developed
solutions aimed at one particular thesaurus or classification have been
dominant, now more and more open source tools are being created to deal
with various aspects of vocabulary management. In this series of two
webinars with Joachim Neubert (ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for
Economics, Germany) and Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland), we
start on 16 March 2016 with Webinar 1 by examining skos-history, a method
and toolset to nail down changes in a vocabulary. We follow with Webinar 2
on 6 April 2016 focusing on Skosmos, a full-fledged web application for
publishing SKOS vocabularies.


*ABOUT WEBINAR 1 (16 March 2016):*

Change Tracking in Knowledge Organization Systems with skos-history

When a new version of a vocabulary is published, users want to know "What’s
new?" and "What has changed?" Vocabulary managers had differing strategies
to answer these questions—relying on internal logs of the vocabulary
management system or the intellectual collection of changes deemed
relevant. These methods generally are not available to third parties using
a vocabulary, or for example are trying to keep vocabulary mappings up to
date.

Having vocabularies published in SKOS as RDF triples has changed this
situation: Vocabularies can be compared algorithmically, and deltas between
versions can be computed. This data can be loaded into a version store, and
evaluated by SPARQL queries. Therefore, the published versions alone are
sufficient to get the differences.

The webinar will explain how you can create a version store, how
skos-history interlinks versions and deltas, and how queries can get a grip
on added or removed concepts, on changed notations, or on merges and splits
of concepts. We will show how aggregated change information about a concept
scheme can be obtained, and how the complete change history of a single
concept across multiple versions can be traced. Finally, you will learn how
you can adapt skos-history queries to the features of a particular concept
scheme in which you are interested.


*ABOUT WEBINAR 2 (6 April 2016):*

Publishing SKOS Concept Schemes with Skosmos

With more and more thesauri, classifications and other knowledge
organization systems being published as Linked Data using SKOS, the
question arises how best to make them available on the web. While just
publishing the Linked Data triples is possible using a number of RDF
publishing tools, those tools are not very well suited for SKOS data,
because they cannot support term-based searching and lookup.

This webinar presents Skosmos, an open source web-based SKOS vocabulary
browser that uses a SPARQL endpoint as its back-end. It can be used by e.g.
libraries and archives as a publishing platform for controlled vocabularies
such as thesauri, lightweight ontologies, classifications and authority
files. The Finnish national thesaurus and ontology service Finto, operated
by the National Library of Finland, is built using Skosmos.

Skosmos provides a multilingual user interface for browsing and searching
the data and for visualizing concept hierarchies. The user interface has
been developed by analyzing the results of repeated usability tests. All of
the SKOS data is made available as Linked Data. A developer-friendly REST
API is also available providing access for using vocabularies in other
applications such as annotation systems.

We will describe what kind of infrastructure is necessary for Skosmos and
how to set it up for your own SKOS data. We will also present examples
where Skosmos is being used around the world.


*ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:*

*Joachim Neubert* is a scientific software developer at the ZBW Leibniz
Information Centre for Economics (http://www.zbw.eu). He published the STW
Thesaurus for economics (http://zbw.eu/stw) and several other datasets as
Linked Open Data. In 2009, he started the SWIB – Semantic Web for Libraries
conference and serves to date 

[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar - Creating Content Intelligence: Harmonized Taxonomy & Metadata in the Enterprise Context

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***PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING***

Creating Content Intelligence: Harmonized Taxonomy & Metadata in the
Enterprise Context
*DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar*

*===*
*:: Presenter:* Stephanie Lemieux
*:: Date:* Wednesday, 27 January 2016
*:: Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EST
 (UTC 15:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/webinar-lemieux)
*:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2016lemieux
*===*

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

Many organizations have content dispersed across multiple independent
repositories, often with a real lack of metadata consistency. The attention
given to enterprise data is often not extended to unstructured content,
widening the gap between the two worlds and making it near impossible to
provide accurate business intelligence, good user experience, or even basic
findability.

How do you bring all those disparate efforts together to create content
intelligence across the organization? This webinar will describe the
benefits and challenges in developing metadata and taxonomy across multiple
functional areas, creating a unified Enterprise Content Architecture (ECA).

Hear about real enterprise metadata & taxonomy harmonization projects in
different contexts, including a greeting card company, a media company, an
automotive manufacturer and a consumer food manufacturer. See how they
worked to harmonize across a number of diverse systems that supported
multiple functions, from creative processes to manufacturing to reporting.

In this webinar, you will learn:

   - how the concept of Enterprise Content Architecture unifies multiple
   disciplines, including information management, data management and content
   strategy;
   - the difference and similarities between master data and business
   metadata;
   - how enterprise-level metadata and taxonomy helps drive semantic
   interoperability and improve business processes;
   - how taxonomy can be harmonized across diverse systems and provided as
   a service; and
   - how to build support and governance for enterprise-level attention to
   taxonomy and metadata from within a project.

*Participant Experience Level:* Basic familiarity with taxonomy and
metadata assumed.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTER:*

*Stephanie Lemieux* is the President and Primary Consultant at Dovecot
Studio. She is a passionate advocate of taxonomy, search and other
marvelous pursuits in content organization. She has worked with
organizations in various industries, such as Nickelodeon, General Mills,
UPS, and the United Nations. Prior to focusing her energies on Dovecot
Studio, she was a senior consultant and taxonomy practice lead with Earley
& Associates. She speaks, blogs and writes whenever she can to help spread
the good taxonomy word. Stephanie has a Masters degree in Library and
Information Studies (MLIS) from McGill University with a specialization in
knowledge management.
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[MCN-L] DC-2016 Call of Participation - Copenhagen, Denmark

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*DC-2016 Metadata Summit*
I*nternational Conference & Annual Meeting*

*Copenhagen, Denmark, | 13-16 October 2016*
*Collocated with the ASIS&T Annual Meeting*

*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*

*==*
*:: Conference Website:*
   http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/
*:: Full Call: *
   http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/cfp
*==*

*The Metadata Summit* in Copenhagen launches DCMI's 3rd decade and provides
a forum for looking forward to new challenges and backward at challenges
met and challenges unresolved. Every year the DCMI community gathers for
both its *Annual Meeting* and its *International Conference on Dublin Core
& Metadata Applications*. The work agenda of the DCMI community is broad
and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design,
implementation, and best practices. While the work of the Initiative
progresses throughout the year, the *Conference* and *Annual Meeting* provide
the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students,
apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share
knowledge and experience.

The Summit in Copenhagen will provide for public- and private-sector
initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata work with the
opportunity to come together, to compare notes, and to cast a broader light
into their particular metadata work silos. Through such a gathering of the
metadata communities, DCMI advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata
interoperability and harmonization.

*Technical Program Submissions:*
The Technical Program includes peer-reviewed Papers, Project Reports, and
Posters. Submission to the Technical Program will span metadata research,
design, and application as a critical core value of effective information
systems across domains -- science, humanities, business, government,
cultural memory, and the professions. It will explore the domain-crossing
intersections of metadata lifecycle documentation, publication, and
management. Submissions are welcome that address the challenges of emergent
areas of metadata interest including big data and big and smart metadata.
The submissions to the Technical Program will be reviewed by an
international panel of experts.

*Submission Deadline:* 13 May 2016
*Author Notification: *22 July 2016
*Final Copy: *2 September 2016


*Professional Program Submissions:*
The Professional Program is key to DCMI's education and training objective
and includes *Tutorials*, *Workshops*, *Special Sessions*, and *Best
Practice Posters & Demonstrations*. Submissions are reviewed by the *Conference
Committee* in consultation with the *DCMI Education Committee*. Selections
for the *Tutorial*, *Workshops*, and *Special Sessions* will be  based on:
(a) the *immediacy* of the submission to current education and training
needs of metadata designers, implementers, and practitioners; and (b) the
*potential* of the submission to advance innovation in both the discourse
and best practice of metadata. *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations* is
a non-peer reviewed track that encourages metadata practitioners in memory
institutions, galleries, government and the private sector to showcase work
demonstrating innovative approaches to metadata best practices. Selections
are based on whether a work presents challenging problems in context; and,
whether the authors and conference delegates can benefit from poster
session interactions.

*Special & Panel Sessions, Workshops, and Tutorials*
*Proposal Deadline:* 15 March 2016
*Author Notification:* 15 April 2016


*Best Practice Posters & Demonstration*
*Submission Deadline:* 15 July 2016
*Author Notification:* 29 July 2016

---
Stuart Sutton
DCMI Managing Director
  DCMI is a project of ASIS&T
  8555 16th Street, Suite 850,
  Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
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[MCN-L] ASIS&T Webinar: Academic Search Engine Optimization of Web Documents for Google Scholar

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*ASIS&T Webinar:*
Academic Search Engine Optimization of Web Documents for Google Scholar

===
*DATE/TIME:*  9 December 2015 at 10:00am EST (World Clock:
http://bit.ly/asist_webinar-Dec2015)
*REGISTRATION URL: *
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/160653313167616769
*WEBINAR WEBPAGE:*
https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/academic-search-engine-optimization/
*REGISTRATION FEE:* Free for ASIS&T members; $15 for non-members
===

*ABSTRACT:* Academic search engine optimization, also known as ASEO, is the
creation, publication, and modification of scholarly literature in a way
that makes it easier for academic search engines to access, interpret, and
rank scholarly documents. Additionally, search-engine friendly academic
documents are ones that are written, formatted, organized, and labeled for
people who use academic search engines. Successful ASEO implementation
communicates. What do librarians, information architects, and academic
professionals need to know about building search-engine friendly documents
for Google Scholar and other academic search engines? In this webinar, SEO
pioneer and veteran Shari Thurow will debunk some common myths and
misconceptions about academic SEO and show you how to properly optimize
different types of scholarly web documents.

Topics covered in this webinar include:

Academic SEO overview

   -  4 fundamental building blocks of academic SEO
   -  How to optimize individual document types (PDF, Word, HTML, etc.)
   -  The role of metadata
   -  Creating and optimizing wayfinders for academic literature
   -  Common myths & misconceptions

This webinar includes real-time examples and a downloadable bibliography
for academic SEO resources.

*PRESENTER:* *Shari Thurow*, Founder & SEO Director, Omni Marketing
Interactive (http://www.search-usability.com)

Shari Thurow is a contributing editor for the ASLIB Journal of Information
Management. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Information
Architecture Institute (IAI) and the User Experience Professionals
Association (UXPA). She is currently the founder and SEO director at Omni
Marketing Interactive, a full-service SEO, website usability, information
architecture, and web design firm. Shari has designed and promoted sites
since 1995 and is a pioneer in the area of search engine-friendly website
design. She is the author of Search Engine Visibility and When Search Meets
Web Usability.



After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing
information about joining the webinar.

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[MCN-L] DCMI Free Webinar: Schema.org in Two Parts: From Use to Extension

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*** Please excuse the cross postings ***

Schema.org in Two Parts: From Use to Extension
*DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar*

===
*:: Presenter:* *Richard Wallis*
*:: Times: *10:00am - 11:15am EST (UTC 15:00:00)
*:: Dates:* Wednesday, Part 1 - 18 Nov. 2015 | Part 2 - 2 Dec. 2015
*:: Webinar Website:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015wallis
*:: Part 1 Free Registration: *http://bit.ly/wallis-part1
*:: Part 2 Free Registration:* Coming soon (check Webinar Website above)
===

*ABOUT THIS 2-PART WEBINAR SERIES:*

When it was first introduced in 2011 Schema.org was seen by many as a grab,
by Google and other search engines, for the semantic web landscape, or as
something only of interest to the SEO community wanting their products
displayed more prominently in search results. It was therefore somewhat of
a surprise to the library community when, less than a year later, the
global library cooperative OCLC introduced Schema.org structured data
markup into the pages for the 300 million plus resources on Worldcat.org.

Things have changed significantly since those early days. Schema.org
structured data is now published on over 10 million web domains; the
vocabulary has expanded to include over 600 Types and nearly 1,000
Properties; it’s core capability for describing bibliographic resources has
been greatly extended. There is now a specific bibliographic extension --
bib.schema.org and, Schema.org implementations and discussions are becoming
common in the library community.

Join Independent consultant Richard Wallis, former Technology Evangelist
for OCLC, currently working with Google on Schema.org, for this two part,
in-depth mini-series look at Schema.org, its use, and extension in the
bibliographic domain and beyond.

*PART 1 WEBINAR: Fit For a Bibliographic Purpose*

*Date/Time:* Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 10:00am-11:15am EST (UTC
15:00:00 - *World Clock:* http://bit.ly/Webinar-1_Wallis)

*Abstract:* In this first webinar in the series, Independent Consultant,
Richard Wallis, traces the history of the Schema.org vocabulary, plus its
applicability to the bibliographic domain. He will share the background to,
and activities of, the Schema Bib Extend W3C Community Group he chairs; why
it was set up; how it approached the creation of bibliographic extension
proposals; and how those proposals were shaped. He will then review the
current status of the vocabulary and the recent introduction of the
bib.schema.org and auto.schema.org extensions. Although Richard will be
using bibliographic examples, the content of this webinar will be of
interest and relevance to those in other domains, and/or considering other
extensions.

*PART 2 WEBINAR: Extending Potential and Possibilities*

*Date/Time:* Wednesday, 2 December 2015, 10:00am-11:15am EST (UTC 15:00:00
- *World Clock:* http://bit.ly/Webinar-2_Wallis)

*Abstract:* In this second more technical webinar in the series,
Independent Consultant, Richard Wallis, explains the Schema.org extension
mechanism, for external and reviewed/hosted extensions, and their
relationship to the core Schema.org vocabulary. He will take an in-depth
look at, demonstrate, and share experiences in designing, and creating a
potential extension to the vocabulary. He will step through the process of
creating the required vocabulary definition and examples files on a local
system using a few simple tools then sharing them on a publicly visible
temporary cloud instance before proposing to the Schema.org group.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTER:*

Richard Wallis Independent Consultant, is a distinguished thought leader in
Linked Data and Semantic Web who has been at the forefront of the emergence
of these technologies for over 20 years. He is Chair of the Schema Bib
Extend, and Schema Architypes, W3C Community Groups and evangelist for the
adoption of Linked Data in cultural heritage and the wider Web. He has an
international reputation for insightful and entertaining keynote sessions
at library, Web, and Semantic Web focused events. Currently working with
OCLC, Google, and the banking industry on the extension, application and
use of the Schema.org vocabulary; he is a pragmatist who believes in
searching for implementable solutions.

--*Free Registration now for Part 1* at http://bit.ly/wallis-part1
--*Free Registration for Part 2* (announcement coming soon on Webinar
Website)
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[MCN-L] DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar: "Implementing Linked Data in Low-Resource Conditions"

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*Implementing Linked Data in Low-Resource Conditions*

*DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar*
   *With Johannes Keizer (UN-FAO) & Caterina Caracciolo (UN-FAO)*

*===*
*:: Time:* 10:00am EDT (World Clock: 14:00 UTC http://bit.ly/webinar-keiser)
*:: Presenters:* Johannes Keizer & Caterina Caracciolo
*:: REVISED DATE:* Wednesday, 9 September 2015
*:: Webinar Website:*
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#keizer
*:: Free Registration:*
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4753836746115031554
   *If you have already registered for the original date/time of this
webinar, you do not *
*   need to re-register*.
*===*

*ABOUT THIS [RESCHEDULED] WEBINAR:*

Opening up and linking data is becoming a priority for many data producers
because of institutional requirements, or to consume data in newer
applications, or simply to keep pace with current development. Since 2014,
this priority has gaining momentum with the Global Open Data in Agriculture
and Nutrition initiative (GODAN). However, typical small and medium-size
institutions have to deal with constrained resources, which often hamper
their possibilities for making their data publicly available. This webinar
will be of interest to any institution seeking ways to publish and curate
data in the Linked Data World.

Keizer and Caracciolo will provide an overview of bottlenecks that
institutions typically face when entering the world of open and linked
data, and will provide recommendations on how to proceed. They will also
discuss the use of standard and linked vocabularies to produce linked data,
especially in the area of agriculture. They will describe AGRISAs, a
web-based resource linking agricultural datasets as an example of linked
data application resulting from the collaboration of small institutions.
They will also mention AgriDrupal, a Drupal distribution that supports the
production and consumption of linked datasets.

*Redux:* *An update of a webinar first presented in 2013*.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:*

*Johannes Keizer* has worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the UN since 1998, primarily as head of the FAO documentation group. The
bibliographic database AGRIS and the multilingual concept scheme AGROVOC
were completely remodeled under his leadership. In the Office of Knowledge
Exchange, Research and Extensions, he heads a staff of 20—the AIMS
(Agricultural Information Management Standards and Services) team which
provides standards, tools, and advice for FAO stakeholders. The AIMS Team
provides the technical backbone for the global Coherence in Information for
Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) Initiative. Through EC
framework projects such as NeON, D2Science, and agINFRA, the AIMS Team has
channeled the results of innovative European research into the
international work of FAO to combat hunger and poverty in the world.

*Caterina Caracciolo*, PhD, has served as an Information Specialist at the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 2006.
Currently, she is responsible for the AGROVOC Concept Scheme, and
participates in the GACS Working Group and the Wheat Data Interoperability
Working Group (RDA). Her main interest lay in the area of semantics for
data integration and sharing, with a special focus on data specific to the
domains of agriculture, biodiversity, natural science and environment in
the broad sense. She regularly serves on program committees for
international conferences and publishes in conference proceedings and
journals in the area of semantic web and information sharing in agriculture
and biodiversity. She has worked in various EC-funded projects and also
served as Work Package leader in the NeOn and SemaGrow projects.

*Register now for free at*
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4753836746115031554.
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: "OpenAIRE Guidelines: Promoting Repositories Interoperability and Supporting Open Access Funder Mandates"

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*** Please excuse the cross postings ***

OpenAIRE Guidelines: Promoting Repositories Interoperability and Supporting
Open Access Funder Mandates
*DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar*


*:: Time:* 10:00am EDT (World Clock: 14:00 UTC http://bit.ly/pprincipe)
*:: Presenters:* Pedro Antonio Príncipe & Jochen Schirrwagen
:*: Date: *Wednesday, 1 July 2015
:*: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015principe



*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

The *OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Source Managers* provide recommendations
and best practices for encoding of bibliographic information in OAI
metadata. The *Guidelines* have adopted established standards for different
classes of content providers: (1) Dublin Core for textual publications in
institutional and thematic repositories; (2) DataCite Metadata Kernel for
research data repositories; and (3) CERIF-XML for Current Research
Information Systems.

The principle of these *Guidelines* is to improve interoperability of
bibliographic information exchange between repositories, e-journals, CRIS
and research infrastructures. They are a means to help content providers to
comply with funders Open Access policies, e.g. the European Commission Open
Access mandate in Horizon2020, and to standardize the syntax and semantics
of funder/project information, open access status, links between
publications and datasets. The presenters will provide an overview of the
*Guidelines*, implementation support in major platforms and tools for
validation.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:*

*Pedro Príncipe* is an information specialist at University of Minho
Documentation Services (Portugal) on the Open Access Projects Office. He
has worked since 2010 in the OpenAIRE projects and infrastructure, in
support, helpdesk and dissemination activities. He is member of the
OpenAIRE guidelines team and co-author of the OpenAIRE guidelines for data
source managers.

*Jochen Schirrwagen* is research fellow at Bielefeld University Library,
Germany. He has worked since 2008 in the knowledge infrastructure projects
DRIVER and OpenAIRE in the fields of metadata management, aggregation and
contextualization. He is co-author of the OpenAIRE guidelines for data
source managers and coordinates its further evolvement.

For more information and to register, visit
http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015principe.
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[MCN-L] DATE CHANGE for DCMI Webinar: "Implementing Linked Data in Low-Resource Conditions"

[DCMI Announce]

*** Please excuse the cross postings ***

[WEBINAR SCHEDULE CHANGE]

Implementing Linked Data in Low-Resource Conditions
DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar


*:: Time:* 10:00am EDT (World Clock: 14:00 UTC http://bit.ly/webinar-keiser)
*:: Presenters:* Johannes Keizer & Caterina Caracciolo
*::* *REVISED DATE**:* Wednesday, 9 September 2015
*:: Webinar Website:*
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#keizer
*:: Registration:*
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4753836746115031554

*:: If you have already registered for the original date of this
webinar, you do not need to re-register. *


*ABOUT THE RESCHEDULED WEBINAR:*

Opening up and linking data is becoming a priority for many data producers
because of institutional requirements, or to consume data in newer
applications, or simply to keep pace with current development. Since 2014,
this priority has gaining momentum with the Global Open Data in Agriculture
and Nutrition initiative (GODAN). Typical small and medium-size
institutions have to deal with constrained resources, which often hamper
their possibilities for making their data publicly available. Keizer and
Caracciolo will provide an overview of bottlenecks that institutions
typically face when entering the world of open and linked data, and will
provide recommendations on how to proceed. They will also discuss the use
of standard and linked vocabularies to produce linked data, especially in
the area of agriculture. They will describe AGRISAs, a web-based resource
linking agricultural datasets as an example of linked data application
resulting from the collaboration of small institutions. They will also
mention AgriDrupal, a Drupal distribution that supports the production and
consumption of linked datasets. This webinar will be of interest to any
institution seeking ways to publish and curate data in the Linked Data
World.

*Redux:* This is an update of a webinar first presented in 2013.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:*

Johannes Keizer has worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
UN since 1998, primarily as head of the FAO documentation group. The
bibliographic database AGRIS and the multilingual concept scheme AGROVOC
were completely remodeled under his leadership. In the Office of Knowledge
Exchange, Research and Extensions, he heads a staff of 20—the AIMS
(Agricultural Information Management Standards and Services) team—which
provides standards, tools, and advice for FAO stakeholders. The AIMS Team
provides the technical backbone for the global Coherence in Information for
Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) Initiative. Through EC
framework projects such as NeON, D2Science, and agINFRA, the AIMS Team has
channeled the results of innovative European research into the
international work of FAO to combat hunger and poverty in the world.

Caterina Caracciolo, PhD, has served as an Information Specialist at the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 2006.
Currently, she is responsible for the AGROVOC Concept Scheme, and
participates in the GACS Working Group and the Wheat Data Interoperability
Working Group (RDA). Her main interest lay in the area of semantics for
data integration and sharing, with a special focus on data specific to the
domains of agriculture, biodiversity, natural science and environment in
the broad sense. She regularly serves on program committees for
international conferences and publishes in conference proceedings and
journals in the area of semantic web and information sharing in agriculture
and biodiversity. She has worked in various EC-funded projects and served
as also served as Work Package leader in the NeOn and SemaGrow projects.

*For more information and to register, visit*
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#keizer. *Register
now for FREE at*
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4753836746115031554.

*If you have already registered for the original date/time of this
webinar, you do not need to re-register. *
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: Implementing Linked Data in Low-Resource Conditions

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*** Please excuse the cross postings ***

*Implementing Linked Data in Low-Resource Conditions*
*DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar*


*:: Date:* Wednesday, 17 June 2015
*:: Time:* 10:00am EDT (World Clock: 14:00 UTC http://bit.ly/1mlZeL7)
*:: Presenters:* Johannes Keizer & Caterina Caracciolo
*:: Website:*
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#keizer
*:: FREE Registration:*
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4753836746115031554


*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

Opening up and linking data is becoming a priority for many data producers
because of institutional requirements, or to consume data in newer
applications, or simply to keep pace with current development. Since 2014,
this priority has gaining momentum with the Global Open Data in Agriculture
and Nutrition initiative (GODAN). Typical small and medium-size
institutions have to deal with constrained resources, which often hamper
their possibilities for making their data publicly available. Keizer and
Caracciolo will provide an overview of bottlenecks that institutions
typically face when entering the world of open and linked data, and will
provide recommendations on how to proceed. They will also discuss the use
of standard and linked vocabularies to produce linked data, especially in
the area of agriculture. They will describe AGRISAs, a web-based resource
linking agricultural datasets as an example of linked data application
resulting from the collaboration of small institutions. They will also
mention AgriDrupal, a Drupal distribution that supports the production and
consumption of linked datasets. This webinar will be of interest to any
institution seeking ways to publish and curate data in the Linked Data
World.

*Redux: This is an update of a webinar first presented in 2013*.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:*

*Johannes Keizer *has worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the UN since 1998, primarily as head of the FAO documentation group. The
bibliographic database AGRIS and the multilingual concept scheme AGROVOC
were completely remodeled under his leadership. In the Office of Knowledge
Exchange, Research and Extensions, he heads a staff of 20—the AIMS
(Agricultural Information Management Standards and Services) team—which
provides standards, tools, and advice for FAO stakeholders. The AIMS Team
provides the technical backbone for the global Coherence in Information for
Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) Initiative. Through EC
framework projects such as NeON, D2Science, and agINFRA, the AIMS Team has
channeled the results of innovative European research into the
international work of FAO to combat hunger and poverty in the world.

*Caterina Caracciolo*, PhD, has served as an Information Specialist at the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 2006.
Currently, she is responsible for the AGROVOC Concept Scheme, and
participates in the GACS Working Group and the Wheat Data Interoperability
Working Group (RDA). Her main interest lay in the area of semantics for
data integration and sharing, with a special focus on data specific to the
domains of agriculture, biodiversity, natural science and environment in
the broad sense. She regularly serves on program committees for
international conferences and publishes in conference proceedings and
journals in the area of semantic web and information sharing in agriculture
and biodiversity. She has worked in various EC-funded projects and served
as also served as Work Package leader in the NeOn and SemaGrow projects.

For more information and to register, visit
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#keizer.

Register now for *FREE* at
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4753836746115031554.
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[MCN-L] DCMI/ASIS&T Webinar: "Digital Preservation Metadata and Improvements to PREMIS in Version 3.0"

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**Please excuse the cross postings**

*Digital Preservation Metadata and Improvements to PREMIS in Version 3.0*

*A DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar*


*:: Presenter:* Angela Dappert
*:: Date:* Wednesday, 27 May 2015
*:: Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (World Clock: 14:00 UTC
http://bit.ly/Webinar-Dappert)
*:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015dappert


*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is the international
standard for metadata to support the preservation of digital objects and
ensure their long-term usability. Developed by an international team of
experts, PREMIS is implemented in digital preservation projects around the
world, and support for PREMIS is incorporated into a number of commercial
and open-source digital preservation tools and systems. The PREMIS
Editorial Committee coordinates revisions and implementation of the
standard, which consists of the Data Dictionary, an XML schema, and
supporting documentation.

The PREMIS Data Dictionary is currently in version 2.2. A new major release
3.0 is due out this summer. This webinar gives a brief overview of why
digital preservation metadata is needed, shows examples of digital
preservation metadata, shows how PREMIS can be used to capture this
metadata, and illustrates some of the changes that will be available in
version 3.0.

*SPEAKER:*

Dr. Angela Dappert is Senior Research Fellow at the University of
Portsmouth. She has widely researched and published on digital
preservation. She has consulted for archives and libraries on digital life
cycle management and policies, led and conducted research in the
EU-co-funded Planets, Scape, TIMBUS, and E-ARK projects, and applied
digital preservation practice at the British Library through work on
digital repository implementation, digital metadata standards, digital
asset registration, digital asset ingest, preservation risk assessment,
planning and characterization, and data carrier stabilization. Angela holds
a Ph.D. in Digital Preservation, an M.Sc. in Medical Informatics and an
M.Sc. in Computer Sciences. She serves on the PREMIS Editorial Committee
and the Digital Preservation Programme Board of National Records Scotland.

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015dappert
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[MCN-L] DCMI/ASIS&T Webinar: "From 0 to 60 on SPARQL queries in 50 minutes"

[DCMI Announce]

**Please excuse the cross postings**

*DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar: *
*From 0 to 60 on SPARQL queries in 50 minutes*


*:: Presenter:* Ethan Gruber
*:: Date:* Wednesday, 13 May 2015
*:: Time:* 10:00am-11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00 - World Clock:
http://bit.ly/Webinar-Ethan_Gruber)
*:: Free Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015gruber


*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

This webinar provides an introduction to SPARQL, a query language for RDF.
Users will gain hands on experience crafting queries, starting simply, but
evolving in complexity. These queries will focus on coinage data in the
SPARQL endpoint hosted by http://nomisma.org: numismatic concepts defined
in a SKOS-based thesaurus and physical specimens from three major museum
collections (American Numismatic Society , British
Museum , and Münzkabinett of the Staatliche
Museen zu Berlin
)
linked to these concepts. Results generated from these queries in the form
of CSV may be imported directly into Google Fusion Tables for immediate
visualization in the form of charts and maps.

*Redux:* This webinar was first presented as a training session in the
LODLAM Training Day at SemTech2014.

*SPEAKER:*

*Ethan Gruber* is the Web and Database Developer for the American
Numismatic Society (ANS). With almost ten years of experience in digital
humanities and cultural heritage Web development projects, Ethan is
responsible for developing a new public interface for the society's
collections of objects and archives. He is the chief architect of Numishare
, an open-source framework for delivering
coin collections online and various ANS projects which implement this
software: Online Coins of the Roman Empire and Coin Hoards of the Roman
Republic.

For more information and to register FREE, visit the event webpage:
http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015gruber
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: Andreas Rauber on making dynamic data citable--recommendations of the RDA Working Group

[DCMI Announce]

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

*DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar:*
*Approaches to Making Dynamic Data Citable: Recommendations of the RDA
Working Group*

==
*DAY:* 8 April 2015
*TIME:* 10:00am-11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00 - World Clock:
http://bit.ly/Webinar-Andreas_Rauber)
*REGISTRATION:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015rauber
==

*Webinar Abstract: *

Being able to reliably and efficiently identify entire or subsets of data
in large and dynamically growing or changing datasets constitutes a
significant challenge for a range of research domains. In order to repeat
an earlier study, to apply data from an earlier study to a new model, we
need to be able to precisely identify the very subset of data used. While
verbal descriptions of how the subset was created (e.g. by providing
selected attribute ranges and time intervals) are hardly precise enough and
do not support automated handling, keeping redundant copies of the data in
question does not scale up to the big data settings encountered in many
disciplines today. Furthermore, we need to be able to handle situations
where new data gets added or existing data gets corrected or otherwise
modified over time. Conventional approaches, such as assigning persistent
identifiers to entire data sets or individual subsets or data items, are
thus not sufficient.

In this webinar, Andreas Rauber will review the challenges identified above
and discuss solutions that are currently elaborated within the context of
the working group of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) on Data Citation:
Making Dynamic Data Citeable. The approach is based on versioned and
time-stamped data sources, with persistent identifiers being assigned to
the time-stamped queries/expressions that are used for creating the subset
of data. We will further review results from the first pilots evaluating
the approach.

*Presenter:*

*Andreas Rauber* is Associate Professor at the Department of Software
Technology and Interactive Systems (IFS) at the Vienna University of
Technology (TU-Wien). He furthermore is president of AARIT, the Austrian
Association for Research in IT and a Key Researcher at Secure Business
Austria (SBA-Research). He is co-chairing the RDA Working Group on Data
Citation together with Ari Asmi and Dieter van Uytvanck.

He received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Vienna University
of Technology in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he joined the
National Research Council of Italy ([http://www.cnr.it/sitocnr/home.html
CNR]) in Pisa as an ERCIM Research Fellow, followed by an ERCIM Research
position at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science
and Control (INRIA), at Rocquencourt, France, in 2002. From 2004-2008 he
was also head of the iSpaces] research group at the eCommerce Competence
Center (ec3).
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[MCN-L] Deadline: 11 April - Call for Participation, DC-2015 in São Paulo, Brazil

[DCMI Announce]

*Apologies for cross-posting*

*DCMI 20th Anniversary International Conference & Annual Meeting*
*September 1-4, 2015 — São Paulo, Brazil*

*"Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital
Humanities"*

*Technical Program Deadlines: *
  *Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters*
  --EXTENDED Submission Deadline: 11 April 2015
  --Author Notification: 23 June 2015
  --Final Copy: 28 July 2015

*Professional Program Deadlines*
  *Special & Panel Sessions*
  --EXTENDED Proposal Deadline: 11 April 2015
  --Author Notification: 25 April 2015
  *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations*
  --Submission Deadline: 14 July 2015
  --Author Notification: Ongoing

=
*Conference Website:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015
*Call for Participation:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015/cfp
*Track Policies:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2015/schedConf/trackPolicies
=

Join us in São Paulo, Brazil

Each of the past 20 years, the metadata community has gathered for DCMI's
conference and annual meeting. The work agenda of the DCMI community is
broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design,
implementation and best practices. While the work of the Initiative
progresses throughout the year, the annual meeting and conference provide
the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students,
apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share
experiences and knowledge. In addition, the gathering provides public- and
private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata
work to come together to compare notes and cast a broader light into their
particular metadata work silos. Through such a gathering of the metadata
communities, DCMI advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata
interoperability and harmonization. This year, the annual meeting and
conference are being hosted by the Universidade Estadual Paulista--São
Paulo State University (UNESP) and held in São Paulo, Brazil.

=
*CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:*
--Universidade Estadual Paulista --São
Paulo State University (UNESP)
--Dublin Core Metadata Initiative  (DCMI)
=

*CONFERENCE CHAIRS:*

--Silvana Borsetti Gregorio Vidotti, Professor
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Plácida Santos, Professor & Conference Chair
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Flávia Maria Bastos, CGB Coordinator
  General Coordination of Libraries
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Mariana Curado Malta, Chair, Program Committee
  CEISE/ISCAP - Polytechnic of Oporto, Portugal
  Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: "Approaches to Making Dynamic Data Citable: Recommendations of the RDA Working Group"

[DCMI Announce]

**Please excuse the cross postings**


*DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar*

"*Approaches to Making Dynamic Data Citable: Recommendations of the RDA
Working Group*"

*:: Presenter:* Andreas Rauber
*:: Date:* Wednesday, 8 April 2015
*:: Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (World Clock: 14:00 UTC
http://bit.ly/Webinar-Andreas_Rauber)
*:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015rauber

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

Being able to reliably and efficiently identify entire or subsets of data
in large and dynamically growing or changing datasets constitutes a
significant challenge for a range of research domains. In order to repeat
an earlier study, to apply data from an earlier study to a new model, we
need to be able to precisely identify the very subset of data used. While
verbal descriptions of how the subset was created (e.g. by providing
selected attribute ranges and time intervals) are hardly precise enough and
do not support automated handling, keeping redundant copies of the data in
question does not scale up to the big data settings encountered in many
disciplines today. Furthermore, we need to be able to handle situations
where new data gets added or existing data gets corrected or otherwise
modified over time. Conventional approaches, such as assigning persistent
identifiers to entire data sets or individual subsets or data items, are
thus not sufficient.

In this webinar, Andreas Rauber will review the challenges identified above
and discuss solutions that are currently elaborated within the context of
the working group of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) on Data Citation:
Making Dynamic Data Citeable. The approach is based on versioned and
time-stamped data sources, with persistent identifiers being assigned to
the time-stamped queries/expressions that are used for creating the subset
of data. We will further review results from the first pilots evaluating
the approach.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTER:*

Andreas Rauber is Associate Professor at the Department of Software
Technology and Interactive Systems (IFS
) at the Vienna University of
Technology (TU Wien ). He furthermore is
president of AARIT , the Austrian Association for
Research in IT and a Key Researcher at Secure Business Austria
(SBA-Research). He is co-chairing the RDA Working Group on Data Citation
together with Ari Asmi and Dieter van Uytvanck.

He received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Vienna University
of Technology in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he joined the
National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in Pisa as an ERCIM Research
Fellow, followed by an ERCIM Research position at the French National
Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), at
Rocquencourt, France, in 2002. From 2004-2008 he was also head of the
iSpaces research group at the eCommerce Competence Center
.

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015rauber
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[MCN-L] EXTENDED Call for Participation for DC-2015 in São Paulo, Brazil

[DCMI Announce]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

*EXTENDED CALL FOR DC-2015 PARTICIPATION*
DCMI 20th Anniversary International Conference & Annual Meeting
September 1-5, 2015 — São Paulo, Brazil

In response to many requests, the DC-2015 Program Committee has extended
the Call for Participation to 11 April 2015. The extended deadlines are now:

*Technical Program Deadlines:*
  *Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters*
  --*EXTENDED: Submission Deadline: 11 April 2015*
  --Author Notification: 23 June 2015
  --Final Copy: 28 July 2015

*Professional Program Deadlines*
  *Special & Panel Sessions*
  --*EXTENDED Proposal Deadline: 11 April 2015*
  --Author Notification: 25 April 2015
  Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations
  --Submission Deadline: 14 July 2015
  --Author Notification: Ongoing


*=*
*Conference Website:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015
*Call for Participation:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015/cfp
*Track Policies:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2015/schedConf/trackPolicies
*=*

*Join us in São Paulo, Brazil*

Each of the past 20 years, the metadata community has gathered for DCMI's
conference and annual meeting. The work agenda of the DCMI community is
broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design,
implementation and best practices. While the work of the Initiative
progresses throughout the year, the annual meeting and conference provide
the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students,
apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share
experiences and knowledge. In addition, the gathering provides public- and
private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata
work to come together to compare notes and cast a broader light into their
particular metadata work silos. Through such a gathering of the metadata
communities, DCMI advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata
interoperability and harmonization. This year, the annual meeting and
conference are being hosted by the Universidade Estadual Paulista--São
Paulo State University (UNESP) and held in São Paulo, Brazil.

*=*
*Conference Organizers:*
--*Universidade Estadual Paulista*--São Paulo State University (UNESP)
--*Dublin Core Metadata Initiative* (DCMI)
*=*

*Conference Chairs:*

--Plácida Santos, Professor & Conference Chair
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Mariana Curado Malta, Chair, Program Committee
  CEISE/ISCAP - Polytechnic of Oporto, Portugal
  Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal

--Silvana Borsetti Gregorio Vidotti, Professor
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Flávia Maria Bastos, CGB Coordinator
  General Coordination of Libraries
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil
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[MCN-L] DC-2015 Professional Program call for participation

[DCMI Announce]

***Apologies for cross-posting***


*DC-2015 -- DCMI 20th Anniversary International Conference & Annual Meeting*
*September 1-5, 2015 — São Paulo, Brazil*

*Conference Theme: *
*Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital Humanities*

*==*
*WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015
*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015/cfp
*TRACK POLICIES:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2015/schedConf/trackPolicies
*==*

*:: DC-2015 Professional Program ::*

*Professional Program Objectives*

Each of the past 20 years, practitioners and researchers in metadata have
gathered for DCMI's annual meeting and international conference. This year,
we will be gathering in São Paulo, Brazil. The scope of interests for the
Professional Program is broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovative
metadata design, implementation, and best practices in all sectors from
cultural heritage institutions to governments and commerce.

While the work of the DCMI progresses throughout the year, the annual
meeting and conference provide the opportunity for researchers, newcomers
to metadata, students, apprentices, and early career professionals to
gather face-to-face to share experiences and knowledge and to learn through
*Tutorials*, *Workshops*, and *Special Sessions* tracks.

In addition, the *Best Practice Posters & Demonstration* tracks offer the
practitioner the opportunity to:

   - *showcase metadata work *underway or completed in their particular
   contexts,
   - *seek input* from the larger community on metadata matters of concern,
   - *compare notes* on innovative practice, and
   - *cast a broader light* into their particular metadata work silos.

Through such a gathering of the metadata communities of practice, DCMI
advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata interoperability and
harmonization across the metadata ecosystem.

*Submission & Session Languages*

Proposals for Professional Program tracks may be in *Portuguese* or
*English*. Depending on the language of the session presenters,
simultaneous English/Portuguese or Portuguese/English translation will be
provided. *Submissions and presentations by Portuguese speakers are
strongly encouraged*.

*Important Professional Program Deadlines*

 * Tutorials, Workshops, and Special Session*
  ---*Proposal Abstract Deadline:* 28 March 2015
  ---*Proposer Notification*: 25 April 2015
  *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations*
  ---*Submission Deadline:* 14 July 2015
  ---*Author Notification:* Ongoing

*Questions Regarding the Professional Program?*

-- *Questions in Portuguese: *
 Mariana Curado Malta - mariana(at)iscap(dot)ipp(dot)pt
-- *Questions in English: *
 Stuart Sutton - sasutton(at)dublincore(dot)net; or
 Mariana Curado Malta - mariana(at)iscap(dot)ipp(dot)pt

*==*
*Conference Organizers:*
--Universidade Estadual Paulista--São Paulo State University (UNESP)
--Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
*==*

*Please join us at DC-2015 in São Paulo, Brazil?*
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[MCN-L] Taxonomy Boot Camp: November 2 - 3, 2015

[DCMI Announce]

*** Please excuse the cross-posting ***

*Taxonomy Boot Camp *
*Sharing Solutions: Taxonomy Across Boundaries*


*Event URL:* http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2015/
*Dates: *November 2 - 3, 2015
*Where: *JW Marriott Washington DC • Washington, DC


Taxonomies are powerful tools used by a wide range of professionals, from
marketers to data scientists, for solving diverse problems from navigation
to product information management. This year’s Taxonomy Boot Camp
 is about highlighting taxonomy's
many faces and sharing practical solutions in different real-world
environments

Taxonomy Boot Camp  is the only
conference dedicated to exploring the successes, challenges, products, and
development of taxonomies. Share your experiences, knowledge, and work with
taxonomies, ontologies, folksonomies, content labeling systems, and other
mechanisms for organizing information at this one-of-a-kind boutique
learning and networking event.

*Topics include but are not limited to:*

   - Taxonomy/ontology modeling and development best practices
   - Taxonomy governance & adoption
   - Techniques for maintaining taxonomies (analytics, testing, etc.)
   - Information architecture and user experience (navigation, content
   publishing, etc.)
   - Metadata modeling and management (role of taxonomy)
   - Auto-categorization and other tagging techniques
   - Taxonomy management/development software selection and use
   - Working collaboratively with stakeholders, content and IT teams
   - User research & usability
   - Implementation of taxonomies and metadata in specific content
   management applications (including DAM, CMS, SharePoint, etc.)
   - Getting buy-in and proving ROI of taxonomy
   - Big data & big taxonomies – dealing with volume
   - Linked data, ontologies, semantic technology
   - Managing multi-lingual vocabularies

To participate in Taxonomy Boot Camp  as
a possible speaker, or to suggest a speaker, please submit your proposal no
later than March 27, 2015.

Submit your speaking proposal now
!
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: VocBench 2.0: A Web Application for Collaborative Development of Multilingual Thesauri

[DCMI Announce]

*** Please excuse the cross postings ***

VocBench 2.0:  A Web Application for Collaborative Development of
Multilingual Thesauri
*DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar*


*:: Time:* 10:00am EST (World Clock: 15:00 UTC
http://bit.ly/DCMI-Webinar-Stellato)
*:: Presenters:* Caterina Caracciolo & Armando Stellato
*:: Date:* Wednesday, 4 March 2015
*:: Registration:*
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#2015caracciolo


*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

VocBench is a web-based platform for the collaborative maintenance of
multilingual thesauri. VocBench is an open source project, developed in the
context of a collaboration between the Food and Agricultural Organization
of the UN (FAO) and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. VocBench is
currently used for the maintenance of AGROVOC, EUROVOC, GEMET, the
thesaurus of the Italian Senate, the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus of Harvard
University, as well as other thesauri.

VocBench has a strong focus on collaboration, supported by workflow
management for content validation and publication. Dedicated user roles
provide a clean separation of competencies, addressing different
specificities ranging from management aspects to vertical competencies in
content editing, such as conceptualization versus terminology editing.
Extensive support for scheme management allows editors to fully exploit the
possibilities of the SKOS model, as well as to fulfill its integrity
constraints. VocBench has been open source software since version 2 -- open
to a large community of users and institutions supporting its development
with their feedback and ideas.

During the webinar, Dr. Caracciolo and Dr. Stellato will demonstrate the
main features of VocBench from the point of view of users and system
administrators, and explain in what way you may join the project.

*ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:*

*Caterina Caracciolo*, PhD, has served as an Information Specialist at the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 2006.
Currently, she is responsible for the AGROVOC Concept Scheme, and
participates in the GACS Working Group and the Wheat Data Interoperability
Working Group (RDA). Her main interest lay in the area of semantics for
data integration and sharing, with a special focus on data specific to the
domains of agriculture, biodiversity, natural science and environment in
the broad sense. She regularly serves on program committees for
international conferences and publishes in conference proceedings and
journals in the area of semantic web and information sharing in agriculture
and biodiversity. She has worked in various EC-funded projects and served
as also served as Work Package leader in the NeOn and SemaGrow projects.

*Armando Stellato*, PhD, is Researcher at the University of Rome, Tor
Vergata, where he carries on research and teaching in the fields of
Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Based Systems. He is author of more
than 70 publications on conferences and journals in the fields of Semantic
Web, Natural Language Processing and related areas and has been member of
the program committees of over 30 international scientific conferences and
workshops. Currently his main interests cover Architecture Design for
Knowledge Based Systems, Knowledge Acquisition and Onto-Linguistic
interfaces, for which he participated to several EU funded projects, such
as Crossmarc, Moses, Cuspis, Diligent, Neon, INSEARCH, SCIDIP-ES, AgInfra
SemaGrow. Dr. Stellato is also consultant at the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) of the United Nations as Semantic Architect, working on
all aspects related to maintenance and publication of FAO RDF vocabularies
such as AGROVOC, Biotech and Journal Authority Data and on the development
of VocBench, an Application for Collaborative Management of RDF
Vocabularies.

For more information and to register, visit
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#2015caracciolo
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[MCN-L] DC-2015 Call for Participation - 2nd notice, São Paulo, Brazil

[DCMI Announce]

*Apologies for cross-posting*

Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital Humanities

*DCMI 20th Anniversary International Conference & Annual Meeting*
*September 1-5, 2015 — São Paulo, Brazil*

=
*Conference Website:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015
*Call for Participation:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015/cfp
*Track Policies:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2015/schedConf/trackPolicies
=

*Abstract:* The need for structured metadata to support ubiquitous access
across the Web to the treasure troves of resources spanning cultures, in
science, and in the digital humanities is now common knowledge among
information systems designers and implementers. Structured metadata
expressed through languages of description make it possible for us to
'speak' about the contents of our treasure troves. But, like all human
languages, our languages of description both enable and isolate. The push
to break out of the isolation of the metadata silos in which professionals
inevitably design, implement and manage metadata in order to discover the
intersections of our treasure troves drives much of today's discourse and
emerging practice in metadata. The emergence of massively integrated Web
presences such as Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America
(DPLA) along with the reshaping of public access globally through
mechanisms such as Linked Data and schema.org drive our conversations, our
excitement, and our fears.

*IMPORTANT DATES:*

*Technical Program Deadlines:*
  *Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters*
  --*Submission Deadline:* 28 March 2015
  --*Author Notification:* 23 June 2015
  --*Final Copy:* 28 July 2015

*Professional Program Deadlines *
  *Special & Panel Sessions*
  --*Proposal Deadline:* 28 March 2015
  --*Author Notification: *25 April 2015
  *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations*
  --*Submission Deadline:* 14 July 2015
  --*Author Notification:* Ongoing

=

*Join us in São Paulo, Brazil*

Each of the past 20 years, the metadata community has gathered for DCMI's
conference and annual meeting. The work agenda of the DCMI community is
broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design,
implementation and best practices. While the work of the Initiative
progresses throughout the year, the annual meeting and conference provide
the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students,
apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share
experiences and knowledge. In addition, the gathering provides public- and
private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata
work to come together to compare notes and cast a broader light into their
particular metadata work silos. Through such a gathering of the metadata
communities, DCMI advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata
interoperability and harmonization. This year, the annual meeting and
conference are being hosted by the Universidade Estadual Paulista--São
Paulo State University (UNESP) and held in São Paulo, Brazil.

=
*CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:*
--Universidade Estadual Paulista--São Paulo State University (UNESP)
--Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
=

*CONFERENCE CHAIRS:*

--Plácida Santos, Professor
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Silvana Borsetti Gregorio Vidotti, Professor
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Flávia Maria Bastos, CGB Coordinator
  General Coordination of Libraries
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Mariana Curado Malta
  CEISE/ISCAP - Polytechnic of Oporto, Portugal
  Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal
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[MCN-L] DCMI Webinar: Eric Miller on libraries and speaking the language of the Web

[DCMI Announce]

* Apologies for cross-posting *

*The Libhub Initiative: Increasing the Web Visibility of Libraries*

*DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar*
*7 January 2015*

==
*TIME:* 10:00am-11:15am EST (UTC 15:00 - World Clock:
http://bit.ly/DCMI-Webinar-Miller)
*REGISTRATION:* http://bit.ly/DCMI_Webinar-Miller
==

*Webinar Abstract: *

As a founding sponsor, Zepheira's introduction of the Libhub Initiative
creates an industry-wide focus on the collective visibility of libraries
and their resources on the Web. Libraries and memory organizations have
rich content and resources that the Web can not see or use. The Libhub
Initiative aims to find common ground for libraries, providers, and
partners to publish and use data with non-proprietary web standards.
Libraries can then communicate in a way Web applications understand and Web
users can see through the use of enabling technology like Linked Data and
shared vocabularies such as schema.org and BIBFRAME. The Libhub Initiative
uniquely prioritizes the linking of these newly exposed library resources
to each other and to other resources across the Web, a critical requirement
of increased Web visibility.

In this webinar, Eric will talk about the transition libraries must make to
achieve Web visibility, explain recent trends that support these efforts,
and introduce the Libhub Initiative -- an active exploration of what can
happen when libraries begin to speak the language of the Web.

*Presenter: Eric Miller*

Eric Miller is the President of Zepheira. Prior to founding Zepheira, Eric
led the Semantic Web Initiative for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at
MIT where he led the architectural and technical leadership in the design
and evolution of the Semantic Web. Eric is a frequent and sought after
international speaker in areas of International Web standards, knowledge
management, collaboration, development and deployment.
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[MCN-L] DC-2015 website and call for participation now open

[DCMI Announce]

*Apologies for cross-posting*

*Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital Humanities*

*DCMI 20th Anniversary International Conference & Annual Meeting*
*September 1-5, 2015 — São Paulo, Brazil*

The Conference website and the call for participation for DC-2015 are now
open.

*=*
*Conference Website:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015
*Call for Participation:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015/cfp
*Track Policies:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2015/schedConf/trackPolicies
*=*

*Abstract: *The need for structured metadata to support ubiquitous access
across the Web to the treasure troves of resources spanning cultures, in
science, and in the digital humanities is now common knowledge among
information systems designers and implementers. Structured metadata
expressed through languages of description make it possible for us to
'speak' about the contents of our treasure troves. But, like all human
languages, our languages of description both enable and isolate. The push
to break out of the isolation of the metadata silos in which professionals
inevitably design, implement and manage metadata in order to discover the
intersections of our treasure troves drives much of today's discourse and
emerging practice in metadata. The emergence of massively integrated Web
presences such as Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America
(DPLA) along with the reshaping of public access globally through
mechanisms such as Linked Data and schema.org drive our conversations, our
excitement, and our fears.

*IMPORTANT DATES:*

*Technical Program Deadlines: *
  *Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters*
  --*Submission Deadline:* 28 March 2015
  --*Author Notification:* 23 June 2015
  --*Final Copy:* 28 July 2015

*Professional Program Deadlines*
  *Special & Panel Sessions*
  --*Proposal Deadline:* 28 March 2015
  --*Author Notification:* 25 April 2015
  *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations*
  --*Submission Deadline: *14 July 2015
  --*Author Notification:* Ongoing

*=*

*Join us in São Paulo, Brazil*

Each of the past 20 years, the metadata community has gathered for
DCMI's conference and annual meeting. The work agenda of the DCMI community
is broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design,
implementation and best practices. While the work of the Initiative
progresses throughout the year, the annual meeting and conference provide
the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students,
apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share
experiences and knowledge. In addition, the gathering provides public- and
private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata
work to come together to compare notes and cast a broader light into their
particular metadata work silos. Through such a gathering of the metadata
communities, DCMI advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata
interoperability and harmonization. This year, the annual meeting
and conference are being hosted by the Universidade Estadual Paulista--São
Paulo State University (UNESP) and held in São Paulo, Brazil.

*=*
*CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:*
--Universidade Estadual Paulista--São Paulo State University (UNESP)
--Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
*=*

*CONFERENCE CHAIRS:*

--Plácida Santos, Professor
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Silvana Borsetti Gregorio Vidotti, Professor
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Flávia Maria Bastos, CGB Coordinator
  General Coordination of Libraries
  Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil

--Mariana Curado Malta
  CEISE/ISCAP - Polytechnic of Oporto, Portugal
  Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal
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[MCN-L] DCMI/ASIS&T Webinar: "The Libhub Initiative: Increasing the Web Visibility of Libraries"

[DCMI Announce]

**Please excuse the cross postings**

*DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar*


:: *Title:* *"The Libhub Initiative: Increasing the Web Visibility of
Libraries"*
:: *Presenter:* Eric Miller
:: *Date:* Wednesday, 7 January 2015
:: *Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EST (World Clock: 15:00 UTC
http://bit.ly/DCMI-Webinar-Miller)
:: *Registration:*
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-1-7-2015-register.html


*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

As a founding sponsor, Zepheira's introduction of the *Libhub Initiative
* creates an industry-wide focus on the collective
visibility of libraries and their resources on the Web. Libraries and
memory organizations have rich content and resources that the Web can not
see or use. The *Libhub Initiative* aims to find common ground for
libraries, providers, and partners to publish and use data with
non-proprietary, web standards. Libraries can then communicate in a way Web
applications understand and Web users can see through the use of enabling
technology like Linked Data and shared vocabularies such as schema.org and
BIBFRAME . The *Libhub Initiative* uniquely
prioritizes the linking of these newly exposed library resources to each
other and to other resources across the Web, a critical requirement of
increased Web visibility.

In this webinar, Eric Miller will talk about the transition libraries must
make to achieve Web visibility, explain recent trends that support these
efforts, and introduce the Libhub Initiative -- an active exploration of
what can happen when libraries begin to speak the language of the Web.

*SPEAKER:*

*Eric Miller* is the President of Zepheira . Prior to
founding Zepheira, Eric led the Semantic Web Initiative for the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT where he led the architectural and technical
leadership in the design and evolution of the Semantic Web. Eric is a
frequent and sought after international speaker in areas of International
Web standards, knowledge management, collaboration, development and
deployment.

:: For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-1-7-2015-register.html
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[MCN-L] Wednesday's DCMI webinar on Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)

[DCMI Announce]

*The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, describing learning resources
with schema.org , and more?*

*Phil Barker & Lorna Campbell (Cetis, UK)*

**Please excuse the cross postings**

--*Date: *19 November, 2014
--*Time:* 10:00am-11:15am EST (UTC 15:00) World Clock: http://bit.ly/1pKiCUj
--*Event webpage:*
  http://dublincore.org/resources/training/
or

https://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-11-19-2014-register.html

***

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a collaborative
initiative that aims to make it easier for teachers and learners to find
educational materials through major search engines and specialized resource
discovery services. The approach taken by LRMI is to extend the
schema.org ontology
so that educationally significant characteristics and relationships can be
expressed. In this webinar, Phil Barker and Lorna M. Campbell of Cetis will
introduce schema.org and present the background to LRMI, its aims and
objectives, and who is involved in achieving them. The webinar will outline
the technical aspects of the LRMI specification, describe some example
implementations and demonstrate how the discoverability of learning
resources may be enhanced. Phil and Lorna will present the latest
developments in LRMI implementation, drawing on an analysis of its use by a
range of open educational resource repositories and aggregators, and will
report on the potential of LRMI to enhance education search and discovery
services. Whereas the development of LRMI has been inspired by schema.org,
the webinar will also include discussion of whether LRMI has applications
beyond those of schema.org.

*SPEAKERS:*

*Lorna Campbell* has worked in the domain of open education technology and
interoperability standards for over fifteen years and has contributed to
the development of a number of learning resource metadata specifications.
Phil and Lorna were commissioned by Creative Commons to manage the third
phase of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. LRMI is co-led by
Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP)--now
the 501(c)(3) arm of the Association of American Publishers.

*Phil Barker* is a research fellow at Heriot-Watt University who has worked
supporting the use of learning technology in Higher Education for twenty
years. For much of this time he has worked with Lorna M. Campbell as part
of Cetis. His work focuses on supporting the discovery and selection of
appropriate resources, and he has contributed to the development of a
number of learning resource metadata specifications. He was on the
technical working group of the learning resource metadata initiative and
has since worked on the third phase of LRMI promoting its uptake and use.

***

*For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:*
  *DCMI:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/
or
  *ASIS&T:*
https://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-11-19-2014-register.html
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[MCN-L] DCMI/ASIS&T webinar: The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, describing learning resources with schema.org, and more?

[DCMI Announce]

DCMI/ASIS&T webinar with Phil Barker & Lorna Campbell of Cetis, UK

**Please excuse the cross postings**

*Join DCMI/ASIS&T for our joint November webinar:*

--*Title:* *The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, describing learning
resources with schema.org , and more?*
--*Date:* 19 November, 2014
--*Time: *10:00am-11:15am EST (UTC 15:00) World Clock: http://bit.ly/1pKiCUj
--*Event webpage:*
  http://dublincore.org/resources/training/
*or*

https://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-11-19-2014-register.html

=

*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a collaborative
initiative that aims to make it easier for teachers and learners to find
educational materials through major search engines and specialized resource
discovery services. The approach taken by LRMI is to extend the
schema.org ontology
so that educationally significant characteristics and relationships can be
expressed. In this webinar, Phil Barker and Lorna M. Campbell of Cetis will
introduce schema.org and present the background to LRMI, its aims and
objectives, and who is involved in achieving them. The webinar will outline
the technical aspects of the LRMI specification, describe some example
implementations and demonstrate how the discoverability of learning
resources may be enhanced. Phil and Lorna will present the latest
developments in LRMI implementation, drawing on an analysis of its use by a
range of open educational resource repositories and aggregators, and will
report on the potential of LRMI to enhance education search and discovery
services. Whereas the development of LRMI has been inspired by schema.org,
the webinar will also include discussion of whether LRMI has applications
beyond those of schema.org.

*SPEAKERS:*

*Lorna Campbell* has worked in the domain of open education technology and
interoperability standards for over fifteen years and has contributed to
the development of a number of learning resource metadata specifications.
Phil and Lorna were commissioned by Creative Commons to manage the third
phase of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. LRMI is co-led by
Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP)--now
the 501(c)(3) arm of the Association of American Publishers.

*Phil Barker* is a research fellow at Heriot-Watt University who has worked
supporting the use of learning technology in Higher Education for twenty
years. For much of this time he has worked with Lorna M. Campbell as part
of Cetis. His work focuses on supporting the discovery and selection of
appropriate resources, and he has contributed to the development of a
number of learning resource metadata specifications. He was on the
technical working group of the learning resource metadata initiative and
has since worked on the third phase of LRMI promoting its uptake and use.

=

*For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:*
  *DCMI:*  *http://dublincore.org/resources/training/
*
or
  *ASIS&T:*
https://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-11-19-2014-register.html

[MCN-L] Training the Trainers for Linked Data (DC-2014 Full-day Workshop)

[DCMI Announce]

***Please excuse the cross-posting***

*Training the Trainers for Linked Data*

*Full-day Post-Conference Workshop @ DC-2014*
*Saturday, 11 October 2014 - 8:30-5:00*

==
*LOCATION:*
  Austin, Texas, USA
*VENUE: *
  AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center (http://www.meetattexas.com/)
*WORKSHOP HOMEPAGE: *
  http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/train
*CONFERENCE WEBSITE: *
  http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014 
*REGISTRATION:*

http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014

  (*Saturday day-rate option available*)
*HOTELS:*

http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2014/schedConf/accommodation
==

*Workshop Abstract: *

Linked Data has gained momentum, and practitioners are eager to use its
principles to derive more value from metadata. Available handbooks and
training materials focus on an audience with a computer science background.
However, people with a non-technical education find it hard to understand
what Linked Data can mean for them. This full-day, hands-on workshop will
provide an overview of methods and case studies from the handbook "Linked
Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums" (2014, ALA/Neal-Schuman). Using
freely available tools and data, this workshop will teach you how to clean,
reconcile, enrich, and publish your metadata. Participants will learn about
concepts, methods, and tools that they can use on their own, or to teach
others within their own institutions, to get more value from metadata.


*Workshop Tutors:*

*SETH VAN HOOLAND *is an Assistant Professor at the Université libre
de Bruxelles (ULB), where he leads the Master in Information Science. After
a career in the private sector for a digitization company, he obtained his
PhD in information science at ULB in 2009. He recently taught a special
course on linked data at the Information School of the University of
Washington. He is also active as a consultant for both public and private
organizations.

*RUBEN VERBORGH* is a researcher in semantic hypermedia at Ghent University
? iMinds, Belgium, where he obtained his PhD in computer science in 2014.
He explores the connection between semantic web technologies and the web's
architectural properties, with the ultimate goal of building more
intelligent clients. Along the way, he has become fascinated by linked
data, REST/hypermedia, web APIs and related technologies. He is the
co-author of a book on OpenRefine and several publications on web-related
topics in international journals.


*Workshop Agenda:*

- 08:30: Coffee and welcome
- 09:00: Introduction - data models and the role of RDF
- 09:45: Data quality and cleaning
- 10:45: Coffee break
- 11:00: Hands-on cleaning (+ helping participants with install issues)
- 12:00: Lunch
- 1:00: Reconciliation - usage of RDF extension and LCSH endpoint
- 2:00: Named-Entity Recognition - usage of NER extension
- 3:00: Coffee break
- 3:30: Sustainable publication - REST
- 4:30 Discussion regarding learning outcomes


*Registration:*

You can register for the Workshop using the day-rate option to DC-2014 or
join us for the full DC-2014 program at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014
.

*Don't wait, register now!* The number of people that can participate in
the Workshop is limited. This Workshop and the DC-2014 Conference cap the
second week of the Austin City Limits Music Festival (
http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly
scarce as the Conference dates approach.

-
Stuart Sutton
   DCMI Managing Director

[MCN-L] DC-2014 Tutorial: RDF Validation in the Cultural Heritage Community

[DCMI Announce]

***Please excuse the cross-posting***

Tutorial: RDF Validation in the Cultural Heritage Community
Half-day Tutorial @ DC-2014
Wednesday, 8 October 2014 - 1:00-5:00

===
*LOCATION:*
  Austin, Texas, USA
*VENUE:*
  AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center (http://www.meetattexas.com/)
*SESSION HOMEPAGE: *
  http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/rdfAP-Tutorial
*CONFERENCE WEBSITE:*
  http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014
*REGISTRATION: *

http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014

  (*Wednesday day-rate option available*)
*HOTELS:*

http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2014/schedConf/accommodation
===

*Session Abstract: *

Resource Description Framework (RDF) does not natively provide rules for
structuring descriptions or validating instance data. This tutorial will
present the problems of data structuring and validation in RDF. There will
be a discussion of current techniques that are being proposed as solutions
(SPIN, Data Shapes, ICV, etc.). Using examples from the cultural heritage
community (Europeana Data Model (EDM), Digital Public Library of America
(DPLA) Metadata Application Profile (MAP), etc.), speakers will present
actual cases where validation and record-like structuring is needed. It
will relate these efforts to the concept of application profiles, drawing
on some existing examples, such as Dublin Core Application Profiles (DCAP)
and BIBFRAME Profiles.

*Learning Outcomes:*

Attendees will able to:

   1. Understand why validation is a significant issue with RDF and OWL;
   and, how constraints in those languages differ from our usual concept of
   constraints;
   2. Identify and monitor today's efforts, and those in development, to
   solve this problem of validation;
   3. Describe some of the specific validation issues with cultural
   heritage data; and
   4. Articulate the issues in their own cultural heritage context.

Attendees will be encouraged to ask questions of speakers with "real life"
experience with linked data and the issues of validation.

*NOTE:* This tutorial is especially recommended for DC-2014 delegates new
to the topic and planning on attending the Thursday Special Session: *RDF
Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control *
(http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/rdfAP).

*Tutorial Planners/Presenters include:*

   - Karen Coyle (Facilitator)?Consultant, USA
   - Tom Baker, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
   - Kai Eckert, University of Mannheim, Germany
   - Tom Johnson, Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), USA
   - Stefanie Ruehl, SUB G?ttingen, Germany

*Registration:*

You can register using the day-rate option to DC-2014 or join us for the
full DC-2014 program at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014
.

*Don't wait, register now!* This Tutorial and the DC-2014 Conference cap
the second week of the *Austin City Limits Music Festival *(
http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly
scarce as the Conference dates approach.

-
Stuart Sutton
   DCMI Managing Director

[MCN-L] DC-2014 early registration *DEADLINE EXTENSION* to September 20th

[DCMI Announce]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

The deadline for registration for DC-2014 has been *EXTENDED to 20
September 2014*. All you have to do to get the Early Registration price is
go to our registration page on the Conference website listed below and
follow the simple instructions. If you work in metadata, you won't want to
miss DC-2014.

***
*REGISTRATION:* http://ow.ly/B65by
*CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* http://ow.ly/B65OM
*CONFERENCE DATES:* 8-11 October 2014
*CONFERENCE VENUE: *
   AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center,
   University of Texas at Austin campus
*CONFERENCE THEME:*
   *Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural Memory*
***

Metadata is fundamental in enabling ubiquitous access to cultural and
scientific resources through galleries, libraries, archives and museums
(GLAM). While fundamental, GLAM traditions in documentation and
organization lead to significant differences in both their languages of
description and domain practices. And yet, the push is on for radically
open cultural heritage data that bridges these differences as well as those
across the humanities and the natural sciences. DC-2014 will explore the
role of metadata in spanning the archipelago of siloed cultural memory in
an emerging context of linked access to data repositories as well as
repositories of cultural artifacts.

This year, the DCMI Annual Conference and Meeting of DCMI (DC-2014) is
being hosted by the Texas Digital Library and held in Austin on the
beautiful University of Texas campus. Four days of exciting sessions have
been planned. While early registration has been extended, please don't wait
until the last minute. The *Austin City Limits Music Festival* overlaps the
conference dates and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce!

Won't you join us in Austin?

Sincerely,

Stuart A. Sutton
DCMI Managing Director

[MCN-L] DC-2014 full-day workshop--"Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management"

[DCMI Announce]

***Please excuse the cross-posting***

Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management

 *Full-day Workshop @ DC-2014*
*Wednesday, 8 October 2014*

===
*LOCATION:* Austin, Texas, USA
*VENUE:* Harry Ransom Center (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/)
*HOMEPAGE:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/2014-archives
*CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014
*REGISTRATION: *
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014
 *(Wednesday day-rate option available)*
===

This DC 2014 special event will bring together experts and practitioners to
explore archival description in the cultural heritage descriptive
landscape, the emergence of authority files/identity description as an
opportunity for cultural heritage cross-community collaboration, and
provide attendees with the latest information on key metadata editing and
management tools used by the working archivist.

*Workshop Sponsors:*

   - Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (Host)
   - ArchivesPortal Europe (APEx)
   - ArchivesSpace
   - Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
   - Europeana
   - Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of
   Virginia
   - ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier)
   - OCLC (Europe)
   - University of Miami

*Workshop Planning Committee:*

   - Daniel Pitti -- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the
   Humanities, University of Virginia
   - Julianna Barrera-Gomez -- University of Texas at San Antonio
   - Eric Childress -- OCLC Research
   - Jen Schaffner -- OCLC Research
   - Ryan Hildebrand -- Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

The Workshop program is available at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/2014-archives. You
can register for the Workshop as a day-rate option to DC-2014 or join us
for the full DC-2014 program at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014
.

Don't procrastinate, register now! Workshop space is limited. The Workshop
and DC-2014 Conference cap the second week of the Austin City Limits Music
Festival (http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become
increasingly scarce as the Workshop date approaches.

Eric Childress, OCLC
   DCMI Governing Board Chair-Elect

[MCN-L] DC-2014 Special Session: RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality Control

[DCMI Announce]

***Please excuse the cross-posting***

RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality
Control
*Half-day Special Session @ DC-2014*
*Thursday, 9 October 2014 - 1:30-5:00*

===
*LOCATION:* Austin, Texas, USA
*VENUE:* AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center (
http://www.meetattexas.com/)
*SESSION HOMEPAGE: *
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/rdfAP
*CONFERENCE WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014
*REGISTRATION: *
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014
 *(Thursday day-rate option available)*
===

*Session Abstract: *

This session will focus on establishing requirements for implementing
Application Profiles from the perspective of software developers. In
particular, our interests include the requirements necessary for performing
validation and quality checks within tools, and the extent to which
established and developing constraint languages remain valuable in our
context.

*Scope and Motivation: *

Over the last fourteen years, the DCMI community has focused much of its
efforts on the development of Application Profiles as a means to enable
reuse of properties across multiple schemas, as well as constraint
languages to express those profiles. Building on the DC-2013 special
session Application Profiles as an Alternative to OWL Ontologies
, this
session will explore the requirements for defining and implementing
Application Profiles from the perspective of software developers and other
implementers. In particular, our session will focus on the requirements
necessary for performing validation and quality checks within tools, and
the extent to which established and developing constraint languages, such
as Description Set Profiles and Shape Expressions/RDF Data Shapes, remain
valuable in our context.

*Confirmed Panelists:*

   - Mark Matienzo (mark at matienzo.org), DPLA, USA (Facilitator)
   - Kevin Ford, Library of Congress, USA
   - Thomas Johnson, Oregon State University, USA
   - Eric Miller, Zepheira, USA
   - David Wood, 3 Round Stones, USA

*Open Questions Guiding the Session:*

   1. How can Application Profile-based validation provide meaningful
   feedback to a user editing a "record" or set of statements?
   2. From the perspective of an implementor, what do we mean by
   "validation," and does this mean different things from the perspective of
   implementers building user-facing tools or automated systems to perform
   these checks?
   3. How are existing constraint languages valuable to implementers,
   particularly if the tools we are building cannot interpret or act on them
   natively?
   4. Should we prioritize developing tools that can interpret serialized
   constraint definitions, or ensuring that our tools and systems can
   serialize their constraints into one of these languages?

*Special Session Sponsors:*

   - Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
   - DCMI Technical Board

You can register using the day-rate option to DC-2014 or join us for the
full DC-2014 program at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014
.

Don't procrastinate, register now! The Conference discount hotel block rate
at the AT&T Center ends 12 September. This Special Session and DC-2014
Conference cap the second week of the Austin City Limits Music Festival (
http://www.aclfestival.com/) and hotel rooms will become increasingly
scarce as the Conference dates approaches.

Mark Matienzo
   *Director of Technology, DPLA*

[MCN-L] DC-2014 in Austin, Texas, USA--Early Registration closing soon

[DCMI Announce]

***Please excuse the cross-posting***

*DC-2014: "Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural
Memory"*

===
*DATES: * 8-11 October 20114
*LOCATION: *Austin, Texas, USA
*WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014
*EARLY REGISTRATION CLOSE:* *6 September 2014*
*REGISTRATION: *
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014
===

*It is just under two weeks until the closing of Early Registration for
DC-2014*, the International Conference on Dublin Core & Metadata
Applications.  If you work or study in any sector of the metadata
ecosystem, you will not want to miss DC-2014 in Austin, Texas.  In addition
to an excellent set of peer reviewed full papers, project reports and
posters, there is an an array of pre- and post-Conference tutorials and
workshops, Conference Special Sessions and Best Practices Posters &
Demonstrations:

*Tutorials & Workshops:*

   - *Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management* (full
   day workshop at the Harry Ransom Center)
   - *Training the Trainers for Linked Data* (full day, hands-on workshop)
   - *RDF Validation in the Cultural Heritage Community* (1/2 day tutorial)
   - *Overview: Positioning DCMI & Dublin Core in the Metadata Ecosystem* (1/2
   day tutorial)

*Special Sessions:*

   - RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality
   Control (sponsored by Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) & DCMI
   Technical Board)
   - Schema.org, SchemaBibExtend -- Structured Data on the Web (sponsored
   by OCLC & Yandex)
   - BIBFRAME -- Expressing and Connecting Bibliographic Data (sponsored by
   the Library of Congress)
   - DCMI Roundtable (experts on BIBFRAME, Europeana Data Model (EDM), DPLA
   Metadata Application Profile (MAP), Schema.org/SchemaBibExtend, and more --
   sponsored by DCMI/Technical Board)

The program is available at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/program14 and the
papers, project report and poster abstracts are available at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/abstracts-2014.

*Don't procrastinate, register now!* The Conference weekend caps the second
week of the *Austin City Limits Music Festival* (http://www.aclfestival.com/)
and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as Conference time
approaches.


?

[MCN-L] Final week to book for "Making metadata work", ISKO-UK/BCS/DCMI joint event

[DCMI Announce]

Dear Colleagues,

*Making metadata work*
Monday 23rd June 2014 - BCS Office, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA.

Please don't forget to book for this popular event before the deadline of
16 June. There are still places for the afternoon session, with an array of
first class speakers. See more  at <
http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm#introduction>.

The  morning workshop and  tutorial are already full booked. We're sorry to
disappoint anyone who's missing them, but we hope to repeat the Sharepoint
tutorial on another date - possibly 15 Sept and/or 26 November. Do please
let us know if you are interested.

*Afternoon meeting on 23 June* (Plenary, 14.00 ? 18.00)
Martin White: The importance of metadata for high quality Search
Sean Bechhofer: Wf4Ever: metadata for ?Research Objects?
Mark Sandler: Semantic Media: a new paradigm for navigable content for the
21st century
Richard Ranft: Enhancing discovery of the British Library's audio
collections
Antoine Isaac: A portrait of Europeana as a Linked Open Data case (in
progress)
Andrew MacFarlane: Analysing creative image search queries to determine
important facets

The speakers and presentations are described in more detail on our website
at  . As usual
there will be more networking, wine and nibbles from 18.00.

*Morning options*
*a) Tutorial: Metadata management in Sharepoint* (10.00 -12.00)
While Sharepoint 2013 offers more metadata capabilities than ever before,
the range of options can make it hard to implement the most effective way.
Management of controlled vocabularies is a particular challenge. This
tutorial will enable you to pick the brains of an experienced consultant,
Marc Stephenson of Metataxis.
*b) Workshop: Vocabularies and the potential for linkage* (9.30 ? 12.30;
now fully booked)
Various approaches to the linkage of value vocabularies (KOSs) and/or
element set vocabularies (metadata schemas) will be described by
Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche (Fujitsu, Ireland), Dan Brickley (Google), Gordon
Dunsire and Stella Dextre Clarke, with emphasis on the opportunities as
well as the barriers to widespread adoption. After that is a case study
from Johan De Smedt and Agis Papantoniou, both of TenForce, that draws on
more than one technique. The subsequent discussion will address the
prospects for take-up, aiming to help participants with application or
development of similar techniques and projects.

*Registration fee and booking*
Full day, including lunch and a choice of tutorial or workshop: ?120 (or
?70 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for full-time students);
Afternoon only: ?60 (or ?25 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for
full-time students).
*Booking is open at*  <
http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm#introduction>


*About ISKO UK*
ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) is a not-for-profit
scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting
research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within
the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in
2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing
audiences to its afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at
http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm). Its third conference was held in July
2013 on the general theme of ?Knowledge organization ? pushing the
boundaries? http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/.

*About BCS IRSG*
Established in 1978, the main aim of the BCS IRSG is supporting the
communication between information retrieval (IR) researchers and
practitioners, promoting the use of IR methods in industry and raising
public awareness of IR-related topics. Recognizing IR as an
interdisciplinary field, a further aim of the BCS IRSG is to act as a link
between computer science, library and information science and also cognate
communities (like natural language processing).

*About DCMI*
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open, international forum
for the development of interoperable online metadata standards with diverse
applications. DCMI?s activities include consensus-driven working groups,
global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational
efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and
practices. DCMI is a project of ASIS&T (the Association for Information
Science and Technology).

[MCN-L] DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar: "How to pick the low hanging fruits of Linked Data"

[DCMI Announce]

**Please excuse the cross postings**

*DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar*


*:: Title:* *"How to pick the low hanging fruits of Linked Data"*
*:: Presenters:* Seth van Hooland & Ruben Verborgh
*::* *Date:* Wednesday, 21 May 2014
*::* *Time:* 10:00am EDT (World Clock: 14:00 UTC http://bit.ly/1qLSeq1)
*::* *Registration:*
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#vanHooland


*ABOUT THE WEBINAR:*

The concept of Linked Data has gained momentum over the past few years, but
the understanding and the application of its principles often remain
problematic. This webinar offers a short critical introduction to Linked
Data by positioning this approach within the global evolution of data
modeling, allowing an understanding of the advantages but also of the
limits of RDF. After this conceptual introduction, the fundamental
importance of data quality in the context of Linked Data is underlined by
applying data profiling techniques with the help of OpenRefine. Methods and
tools for metadata reconciliation and enrichment, such as Named-Entity
Recognition (NER), are illustrated with the help of the same software. This
webinar will refer to case-studies with real-life data which can be re-used
by participants to continue to explore OpenRefine at their own pace after
the webinar. The case-studies have been developed in the context of the
handbook "Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums", which will be
published by Facet Publishing in June 2014 (
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=9641&category_code=102).

*PRESENTERS:*

*Seth van Hooland* is an assistant professor at the Universit? libre de
Bruxelles (ULB), where he leads the Master in Information Science. After a
career in the private sector for a digitization company, he obtained his
PhD in information science at ULB in 2009. He is currently teaching a
special course on linked data at the Information School of the University
of Washington. He is also active as a consultant for both public and
private organizations.

*Ruben Verborgh* is a researcher in semantic hypermedia at Ghent University
- iMinds, Belgium, where he obtained his PhD in computer science in 2014.
He explores the connection between semantic web technologies and the web's
architectural properties, with the ultimate goal of building more
intelligent clients. Along the way, he has become fascinated by linked
data, REST/hypermedia, web APIs and related technologies. He is the
co-author of a book on OpenRefine and several publications on web-related
topics in international journals.

*For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:*
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#vanHooland

[MCN-L] **EXTENDED** CfP: DC-2014 in Austin, Texas - 8-11 October 2014

[DCMI Announce]

***Please accept our apology for cross-posting***

*14th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications*

8-11 October 2014, Austin, Texas, USA

===
*EXTENDED CfP:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014/cfp
Conference Website: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014
===

The deadline for submissions to the program for DC-2014 in Austin Texas has
been extended by two weeks to *17 May 2014*.

*2014 THEME: "Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural
Memory"*

In addition to submission related to the conference theme, submissions are
welcome on *any topic addressing metadata models, technologies and
applications*. Submission describing innovative best practices in metadata
are welcome from practitioners as well as researchers and application
developers.

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's Annual Meeting & International
Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications brings together
individuals representing initiatives working in silos from across the
metadata ecosystem to share experiences and best practices and to seek
innovative solutions to common problems.

*IMPORTANT DATES:*

*--Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters*

EXTENDED Submission Deadline: 17 May 2014
Author Notification: 12 July 2014
Final Copy: 16 August 2014

*--Special & Panel Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops*

EXTENDED Submission Deadline: 17 May 2014
Author Notification: 1 June 2014

*--Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations*

EXTENDED Submission Deadline: 16 June 2014
Author Notification: 30 June 2014

*FOR MORE INFORMATION:*

*Conference Chairs: *
--William Moen, University of North Texas - william (dot) moen (at) unt
(dot) edu
--Amy Rushing, University of Texas at San Antonio - amy (dot) rushing (at)
utsa (dot) edu

[MCN-L] DC-2014 CfP - Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural Memory (Austin, Texas)

[DCMI Announce]

*14th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications*

8-11 October 2014, Austin, Texas, USA

===
*Complete Call for Participation:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014/cfp
===

DCMI's annual conference addresses models, technologies and applications of
metadata.

*2014 THEME: "Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural
Memory"*

Metadata is fundamental in enabling ubiquitous access to cultural and
scientific resources through galleries, libraries, archives and museums
(GLAM). While fundamental, GLAM traditions in documentation and
organization lead to significant differences in both their languages of
description and domain practices. And yet, the push is on for "radically
open cultural heritage data" that bridges these differences as well as
those across the humanities and the natural sciences. DC-2014 will explore
the role of metadata in spanning the archipelago of siloed cultural memory
in an emerging context of linked access to data repositories as well as
repositories of cultural artifacts.


*IMPORTANT DATES: *

*--Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters*
Submission Deadline: 3 May 2014
Author Notification: 12 July 2014
Final Copy: 16 August 2014

*--Special & Panel Sessions, Tutorials & Workshops*
Submission Deadline: 3 May 2014
Author Notification: 1 June 2014

*--Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations*
Submission Deadline: 2 June 2014
Author Notification: 30 June 2014

*TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS:*

(1) Peer-reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters
(2) Special & Panel Session, Tutorials & Workshops
(3) From the field: Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations

*FOR MORE INFORMATION:*

*Conference Chairs: *
--William Moen, University of North Texas - william (dot) moen (at) unt
(dot) edu
--Amy Rushing, University of Texas at San Antonio - amy (dot) rushing (at)
utsa.edu

[MCN-L] DCMI Regional Meeting: "Making Metadata Work", London, 23 June 2014

[DCMI Announce]

*** Apologies for cross-postings ***

[image: Inline image 2]

*MAKING METADATA WORK*
DCMI Regional Meeting with ISKO-UK & IRSG

-
*Date:* Monday 23rd June 2014 -
*Location:* BCS Office, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA.
*Websites:* http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm
  http://dcevents.dublincore.org/BibData/mmw/
-

This event will be a showcase for the latest developments in the evolution
of the Semantic Web, exploitation of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS),
metadata annotation to aid workflow automation, information retrieval in
networks of diverse media assets, Linked Data, and other opportunities for
using metadata. It is a Joint Meeting of ISKO UK, IRSG (Information
Retrieval Special Interest Group of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT)
and DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative). The day will be modular:
attendance in the morning is optional, with a choice of workshop or
tutorial, while the afternoon program is for everyone.

*MORNING OPTIONS:*

*a) Tutorial: Metadata management in Sharepoint (10.00 - 12.00)*

While Sharepoint 2013 offers more metadata capabilities than ever before,
the range of options can make it hard to implement the most effective way.
Management of controlled vocabularies is a particular challenge. This
tutorial will enable you to pick the brains of an experienced consultant,
Marc Stephenson of Metataxis.

*b) Workshop: Vocabularies and the potential for linkage (9.30 - 12.30)*

Various approaches to the linkage of value vocabularies (KOSs) and/or
element set vocabularies (metadata schemas) will be described by *Pierre-Yves
Vandenbussche* (Fujitsu, Ireland), *Dan Brickley* (Google), *Gordon Dunsire*
 and *Stella Dextre Clarke*, with emphasis on the opportunities as well as
the barriers to widespread adoption. After that is a case study from *Johan
De Smedt* and *Agis Papantoniou*, both of TenForce, that draws on more than
one technique. The subsequent discussion will address the prospects for
take-up, aiming to help participants with application or development of
similar techniques and projects.

*AFTERNOON MEETING (Plenary, 14.00 - 18.00)*

--*Martin White*: The importance of metadata for high quality Search
--*Sean Bechhofer*: Wf4Ever: metadata for "Research Objects"
--*Mark Sandler*: Semantic Media: a new paradigm for navigable content for
the 21st century
--*Richard Ranft*: Enhancing discovery of the British Library's audio
collections
--*Antoine Isaac*: A portrait of Europeana as a Linked Open Data case (in
progress)
--*Andrew MacFarlane*: Analysing creative image search queries to determine
important facets

Followed by networking, wine and nibbles from 18.00.

*REGISTRATION FEE & BOOKING:*

--*Full day,* including lunch and a choice of tutorial or workshop: ?120
(or ?70 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for full-time students);
--*Afternoon only:* ?60 (or ?25 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for
full-time students).
--*Registration: * <
http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm#Booking
>

*To avoid disappointment, please don't delay in booking.*

-
*About ISKO UK*
ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) is a not-for-profit
scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting
research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within
the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in
2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing
audiences to its afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at
http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm). Its third conference was held in July
2013 on the general theme of "Knowledge organization - pushing the
boundaries" http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/.

*About BCS IRSG*
Established in 1978, the main aim of the BCS IRSG is supporting the
communication between information retrieval (IR) researchers and
practitioners, promoting the use of IR methods in industry and raising
public awareness of IR-related topics. Recognizing IR as an
interdisciplinary field, a further aim of the BCS IRSG is to act as a link
between computer science, library and information science and also cognate
communities (like natural language processing).

*About DCMI*
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open, international forum
for the development of interoperable online metadata standards with diverse
applications. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups,
global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational
efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and
practices. DCMI is a project of ASIS&T (the Association for Information
Science and Technology).

[MCN-L] Call for speakers (deadline March 20): Taxonomy Boot Camp 2014, Washington DC, November 4-5

[DCMI Announce]

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

?
*10th annual Taxonomy Boot Camp*
November 4-5 as part of KMWorld
Washington, DC
*Website:* http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2014/
*Call for Speakers:*
http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2014/CallForSpeakers.asp
*Deadline:* March 20, 2014
?

The 10th annual Taxonomy Boot Camp will be held again in Washington DC from
November 4-5 as part of KMWorld.  The call for speakers is now open,
deadline for proposals is March 20.  Proposals for individual sessions,
panels and workshops are all welcome, covering any aspect of
taxonomy/ontology/vocabulary design, management, integration and use.  See
full details at http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2014/, or submit your
proposal online at http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2014/CallForSpeakers.aspx
.

Taxonomy Boot Camp brings together practitioners and experts in taxonomy,
vendors who have created tools to help manage your taxonomies, and novices
who are starting out in the world of information management.  Two parallel
tracks on the first day provide those new to the field with the nuts and
bolts they need to get up to speed, and expert practitioners with insights
into how other professionals have made their organizations more successful
through better use of taxonomies.  On the second day of the Boot Camp,
everyone shares in case studies, practical sessions on taxonomy tools and
their use, and cutting edge developments in the field.  Don't miss this
unique opportunity to learn about tools and techniques you can use to bring
your information clouds together, and meet the people who can help you be
successful in your efforts.


Michael Crandall, Conference Chair
Senior Lecturer and Director, iAffiliates Program
  and Chair, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
The Information School
Box 352840
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98105-2840
(206) 897-1798
mikecran at uw.edu
http://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/mikecran
http://ischool.uw.edu/iaffiliates

[MCN-L] NISO/DCMI Webinar with Thomas Hickey: Cooperative Authority Control

[DCMI Announce]

***Please excuse the cross-posting***

===
NISO/DCMI Webinar: Cooperative Authority Control
PRESENTER: Thomas Hickey, OCLC Research

DATE: December 4, 2013
TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern (18:00-19:30 UTC) World Clock:
http://bit.ly/1aRZlbz
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/authority/
===

ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

Libraries around the world have a long tradition of maintaining authority
files to assure the consistent presentation and indexing of names. As
library authority files have become available online, the authority data
has become accessible -- and many have been published as Linked Open Data
(LOD) -- but names in one library authority file typically had no link to
corresponding records for persons and organizations in other library
authority files. After a successful experiment in matching the Library of
Congress/NACO authority file with the German National Library's authority
file, an online system called the Virtual International Authority File
(VIAF) [1] was developed to facilitate sharing by ingesting, matching, and
displaying the relations between records in multiple authority files.

VIAF has grown from three source files in 2007 to more than two dozen files
today. The system harvests authority records, enhances them with
bibliographic information and brings them together into clusters when it is
confident the records describe the same identity. Although the most visible
part of VIAF is a HTML interface, the API beneath it supports a linked data
view of VIAF with URIs representing the identities themselves, not just
URIs for the clusters. It supports names for person, corporations,
geographic entities, works, and expressions. With English, French, German,
Spanish interfaces (and a Japanese in process), the system is used around
the world, with over a million queries per day.

The service harvests some 30 million authority records, enhances them with
information from 100 million bibliographic records to produce a file of 20+
million clusters, each representing a person, organization, jurisdiction,
work, or expression. In addition to supporting a Web browser HTML
interface, the API to VIAF supports content negotiation for other views,
such as RDF-XML and MARC-21. Bulk dumps of the VIAF clusters are available
under the ODC-By attribution license.

The Webinar will cover some of the challenges VIAF meets in dealing with
many different formats and approaches to describing identities, the
relationship of VIAF to the source authority files, to other identity
systems such as ORCID and ISNI, VIAF's approach to sustainability,
governance and persistence, and how ambiguity is recognized and managed.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Thomas Hickey [2] is Chief Scientist at OCLC where he helped found OCLC
Research. Current interests include metadata creation and editing systems,
authority control, parallel systems for bibliographic processing, and
information retrieval and display. In addition to implementing VIAF, his
group looks into exploring Web access to metadata, identification of FRBR
works and expressions in WorldCat, the algorithmic creation of authorities,
and the characterization of collections. He has an undergraduate degree in
Physics and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science.

REGISTRATION:

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern (17:00 UTC) on December 4, 2013. Discounts are available for NISO
and DCMI members and students.

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/authority/
===

[1] http://viaf.org/
[2] http://www.oclc.org/research/people/hickeyt.html

[MCN-L] Final Invitation - NISO/DCMI Webinar: Metadata for Public Sector Administration

[DCMI Announce]

***Please excuse the cross-posting***

===
NISO/DCMI Webinar: Metadata for Public Sector Administration
PRESENTER: Makx Dekkers & Stijn Goedertier

DATE: October 30, 2013
TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern (17:00-18:30 UTC) World Clock:
http://bit.ly/19EvBJe
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/publicsector/
===

ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

One key challenge for e-Government programs around the world has been the
lack of easily accessible information about the metadata schemas,
controlled vocabularies, code lists, and other reference data that provide
interoperability among a broad diversity of data sources.

The Asset Description Metadata Schema [1] was developed for exchanging
information about such "interoperability assets". The schema was developed
with support from the European Commission with the objective of
facilitating interoperability across eGovernment programmes in Europe, but
it is already proving its usefulness in a wider context, for example to
describe specifications maintained by DCMI and W3C. One key implementation
of ADMS is in a federation of semantic asset repositories on the Joinup
server [2].

Libraries that collect government information will benefit if such
information is based on a set of commonly used schemas, vocabularies and
code lists, making it easier to aggregate information from multiple
sources. This webinar introduces the ADMS schema and discusses examples of
its implementation.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Makx Dekkers has been the editor in the development and consensus process
for ADMS. He is an independent information professional who has been
working in areas of information management, metadata and interoperability
for more than three decades. After a career start in library and
information networking and international cooperation, he became the
Managing Director at DCMI in 2001, a position he held until 2011. Since
then, he has been involved with projects concerning interoperability in the
areas of Open Government Data and Public Sector information.

Stijn Goedertier, has been working since 2010 as a contractor for the
Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administration (ISA)
Programme of the European Commission. His interests include digital public
services, administrative processes, and semantic interoperability. Since
2011, he has been closely involved in the development and promotion of the
e-Government Core Vocabularies and Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS)
together with public administrations and standardisation organisations in
Europe. In that context, Stijn was also responsible for the design and
operation of the federation of semantic asset repositories on Joinup [2].
Stijn is also a manager at PwC Technology Consulting where he focuses on
Information Management. He has a Master degree in Business Engineering and
a PhD in Process Mining.

REGISTRATION:

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern (16:00 UTC) on October 30, 2013. Discounts are available for NISO
and DCMI members and students.

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/publicsector/
===

[1] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms/release/100
[2] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/catalogue/repository

[MCN-L] NISO/DCMI Webinar: Metadata for Public Sector Administration

[DCMI Announce]

***Please excuse the cross-posting***

===
NISO/DCMI Webinar: Metadata for Public Sector Administration
PRESENTER: Makx Dekkers & Stijn Goedertier

DATE: October 30, 2013
TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern (17:00-18:30 UTC) World Clock:
http://bit.ly/19EvBJe
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/publicsector/
===

ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

One key challenge for e-Government programs around the world has been the
lack of easily accessible information about the metadata schemas,
controlled vocabularies, code lists, and other reference data that provide
interoperability among a broad diversity of data sources.

The Asset Description Metadata Schema [1] was developed for exchanging
information about such "interoperability assets". The schema was developed
with support from the European Commission with the objective of
facilitating interoperability across eGovernment programmes in Europe, but
it is already proving its usefulness in a wider context, for example to
describe specifications maintained by DCMI and W3C. One key implementation
of ADMS is in a federation of semantic asset repositories on the Joinup
server [2].

Libraries that collect government information will benefit if such
information is based on a set of commonly used schemas, vocabularies and
code lists, making it easier to aggregate information from multiple
sources. This webinar introduces the ADMS schema and discusses examples of
its implementation.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Makx Dekkers has been the editor in the development and consensus process
for ADMS. He is an independent information professional who has been
working in areas of information management, metadata and interoperability
for more than three decades. After a career start in library and
information networking and international cooperation, he became the
Managing Director at DCMI in 2001, a position he held until 2011. Since
then, he has been involved with projects concerning interoperability in the
areas of Open Government Data and Public Sector information.

Stijn Goedertier, Manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers Belgium, is a key
participant in the ADMS project.

REGISTRATION:

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern (16:00 UTC) on October 30, 2013. Discounts are available for NISO
and DCMI members and students.

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/publicsector/
===

[1] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms/release/100
[2] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/catalogue/repository

[MCN-L] Full, open proceedings available for DC-2013 in Lisbon

[DCMI Announce]

 Please excuse the cross-posting 

DC-2013 ONLINE PROCEEDINGS

===
PROCEEDINGS URL:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2013/schedConf/presentations
CONFERENCE HOME URL (for session descriptions):
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2013/
===

The collocated conferences for DC-2013 and iPRES-2013 in Lisbon attracted
392 participants from over 37 countries. In addition to the Tuesday through
Thursday conference days comprised of peer-reviewed paper and special
sessions, 223 participants attended pre-conference tutorials and 246
participated in post-conference workshops for the collocated events. The
peer-reviewed papers and presentations are available on the conference
website Presentation page (URLs above). In sum, it was a great conference.

In addition to links to PDFs of papers, project reports and posters (and
their associated presentations), the published proceedings include
presentation PDFs for the following:

TUTORIALS:
-- Ivan Herman: "Introduction to Linked Open Data (LOD)"
-- Steven Miller: "Introduction to Ontology Concepts and Terminology"
-- Kai Eckert: "Metadata Provenance"
-- Daniel Garjio: "The W3C Provenance Ontology"

SPECIAL SESSIONS:
-- "Application Profiles as an Alternative to OWL Ontologies"
-- "Long-term Preservation and Governance of RDF Vocabularies (W3C
Sponsored)"
-- "Data Enrichment and Transformation in the LOD Context: Poor & Popular
vs Rich & Lonely--Can't we achieve both?"
-- "Why Schema.org?"

WORKSHOPS:
-- Vocabulary Day
-- CAMP (Cyber Infrastructure and Metadata Protocols)-4-DATA

[MCN-L] Cyber-infrastructure and Metadata Protocols: CAMP-4-Data Workshop

[DCMI Announce]

Cyber-infrastructure and Metadata Protocols: CAMP-4-Data Workshop

(A Dublin Core-Science and Metadata (DC-SAM) Community/Research Data
Alliance (RDA) Workshop).


--WHEN/WHERE:  6 September 2013 @ DC-2013 in Lisbon, Portugal, 9:00-18:00
--WORKSHOP URL:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data
--AGENDA ONLINE:
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DC_2013_SAM_Science_and_Metadata_CAMP_4_DATA_AGENDA
--DC-2013 URL: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc2013


**Registration required; you do not need to be presenting a paper or talk
to participate.

==(REGISTRATION - 8:00-9:00)==

==INTRODUCTION==
*9:00-9:30 - Welcome, workshop goals, logistics; participant
introductions/Jane Greenberg/all

*9:30-9:45 - The Metadata Zoo/Rebecca Koskela

*9:45-10:00 - DCC Scheme Directory/Alex Ball

==INFRASTRUCTURE MODELS AND FRAMEWORKS==
*10:00-10:15 - A 3-Layer Model for Metadata/Keith Jeffery, Anne Asserson,
Nikos Houssos and Brigitte Joerg

*10:15-10:30 - Cross-Domain Metadata Interoperability: Lessons Learnt in
INSPIRE
Andrea Perego, Michael Lutz, Max Craglia and Silvia Dalla Costa

==USAGE AND TRACKING==
*10:30-10:45 - Usage data for metadata properties to support open data
registries and semantic wikis/Muriel Foulonneau, S?bastien Martin, Jacques
Ducloy, Thierry Daunois and Slim Turki

*10:45-11:00 - Provenance Central: More Mileage from Provenance
Metadata/Bertram Ludaescher and Paolo Missier

==(BREAK - 11:00-11:30)==

==PID (PERSISTENT IDENTIFIERS)==
*11:30-11:45 - Persistent Identifiers for Terms in a Crowd-Sourced
Vocabulary/John Kunze, Greg Janee, Christopher Patton

*11:45-12:00 - Separation of Concerns: PID Information Types and Domain
Metadata/Tobias Weigel and Timothy Dilauro

==APPLICATIONS==
*12:00-12:15 - Ontology-Enabled Metadata Schema Generator: The Design
Approach/Jian Qin, Xiaozhong Liu and Miao Chen

*12:15-12:30 - Metadictionary: Advocating for a Community-driven Metadata
Vocabulary Application/ Jane Greenberg, Angela Murillo, John Kunze, Sarah
Callahan, Robert Guralnick, Greg Janee, Nassib Nassar, Christopher Patton,
and Karthik Ram

*12:30-12:40 - CLEPSYDRA Data Aggregation and Enrichment Framework/Cezary
Mazurek, Marcin Mielnicki, Aleksandra Nowak, Krzysztof Sielski, Maciej
Stroinski, Marcin Werla and Jan Wglarz

*12:40-12:50 - RUresearch - Open Source Metadata Application Profile and
Research Object Handling for Research Data/Grace Agnew and Mary Beth Weber

*12:50-13:00 - Open discussion, setting the afternoon agenda; Brief remarks
about RDA-3rd Plenary/Sandra Collins

==(LUNCH - 13:00-14:30)==

==BREAKOUT GROUPS==

*14:30-14:40 - Overview of discussion topics

*14:40-15:10 - Breakout groups, Session 1: Infrastructure and design,
policy, human and social aspects.

*15:10-15:40 - Breakout groups, Session 2 (topic rotation from session 1).

*15:40-16:00 - Report back from breakout groups.

==(BREAK - 16:00-16:30)==

==BREAKOUT GROUPS/WORKSHOP WRAP-UP==
*16:30-16:45 - Delegates propose/vote on 'special' topics.

*16:45-17:15 - Self-selected groups discuss a topic each.

*17:15-17:50 - Report back from each group; discussion of possible action
points.

*17:50-18:00 - Closing remarks.

==WORKSHOP ADJOURNED:  18:00==

[MCN-L] NISO/DCMI Webinar: Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and Low-Resource Conditions

[DCMI Announce]

***Please excuse the cross-posting***

===
NISO/DCMI Webinar: Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and
Low-Resource Conditions
PRESENTER: Johannes Keizer & Caterina Caracciolo

DATE: September 25, 2013
TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern (17:00-18:30 UTC) World Clock:
http://bit.ly/18LAQwh
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/developing/
===

ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

Open data is a crucial prerequisite for inventing and disseminating the
innovative practices needed for agricultural development. To be usable,
data must not just be open in principle -- i.e., covered by licenses that
allow re-use. Data must also be published in a technical form that allows
it to be integrated into a wide range of applications.

This webinar describes the technical solutions adopted by a widely diverse
global network of agricultural research institutes for publishing research
results. The talk focuses on AGRIS, a central and widely-used resource
linking agricultural datasets for easy consumption, and AgriDrupal, an
adaptation of the popular, open-source content management system Drupal
optimized for producing and consuming linked datasets.

Agricultural research institutes in developing countries share many of the
constraints faced by libraries and other documentation centers, and not
just in developing countries: institutions are expected to expose their
information on the Web in a re-usable form with shoestring budgets and with
technical staff working in local languages and continually lured by
higher-paying work in the private sector. Technical solutions must be easy
to adopt and freely available. The webinar will be of interest to any
institution seeking ways to publish and curate data in the Linked Data
cloud.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Johannes Keizer has worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) since 1998, primarily as head of the FAO documentation
group. The bibliographic database AGRIS and the multilingual concept scheme
AGROVOC were completely remodeled under his leadership. In the Office of
Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extensions, he heads a staff of 20 -- the
AIMS (Agricultural Information Management Standards and Services) team --
which provides standards, tools, and advice for FAO stakeholders. The AIMS
Team provides the technical backbone for the global Coherence in
Information forAgricultural Research for Development (CIARD) Initiative.
Through EC framework projects such as NeON, D2Science, and agINFRA, the
AIMS Team has channeled the results of innovative European research into
the international work of FAO to combat hunger and poverty in the world.

Caterina Caracciolo is senior information specialist at the FAO. After
working at the National Council of Research (CNR) in Pisa, she joined FAO
in 2006. Since then, she has worked on various aspects related to
information management and sharing, with special focus on metadata. She is
currently involved in the SemaGrow project and part of the AGROVOC
management team at FAO. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the
University of Amsterdam.

REGISTRATION:

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern (16:00 UTC) on September 25, 2013. Discounts are available for NISO
and DCMI members and students.

NISO/DCMI are holding six joint webinars in 2013. Register for three and
receive the 4th for free.

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/developing/

[MCN-L] DC-2013/iPRES-2013 conferences EARLY REGISTRATION extended to 15 July

[DCMI Announce]

*Apologies for cross-posting*

*=== iPRES-2013 / DC-2013 INVITATION TO LISBON ===*

iPRES-2013 and DC-2013 (Dublin Core) are co-locating on 2-6 September 2013
in Lisbon, Portugal at the Instituto Superior T?cnico. A unique common
registration provides full access to both the conference programs and
digital proceedings. Keynotes will be held in shared iPRES/Dublin Core
plenary sessions, and papers sessions specific of each conference will run
in parallel.  Tutorials, per-conference events, and workshops are
cross-listed for both conferences, and require registration.  Keynote
speaker Gildas Illien will address the common goals, values and points of
intersection of the preservation and metadata communities in "Darling, Can
We Talk" (Keynote Asbtract:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/keynotes-2013#Illien
).

-- iPRES-2013, 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL
OBJECTS *** emphasizes the significance of preserving scientific and
cultural digital heritage across institutional and disciplinary boundaries.
 iPRES 2013  will further strengthen the link between digital preservation
research and practitioners in memory institutions and scientific data
centers.
  * iPRES Conference website: http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/index.html
  * iPRES Preliminary Program: http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/prg_overview.html

-- DC-2013, LINKING TO THE FUTURE *** explores questions regarding the
persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive
vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans
all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment,
finance and commerce. Thus, the maintenance and management of metadata is
essential to address the long term availability of information of legal,
cultural and economic value.
  * Dublin Core Conference website:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2013/
  * Dublin Core Program:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/program-2013

iPRES/DC-2013 provides a unique opportunity for interlinking fundamental to
cutting edge preservation and metadata knowledge.

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REGISTER NOW (Early registration extended to 15 July):
  * http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/registration.html
 OR
  *
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2013
=

[MCN-L] EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: CAMP-4-DATA Workshop "Cyber-infrastructure & Metadata Protocols" - Lisbon, Portugal

[DCMI Announce]

*Apologies for cross-posting*

=== EXTENDED DEADLINE for Participation: CAMP-4-DATA Workshop in Lisbon ===

"CAMP-4-DATA WORKSHOP: Cyber-infrastructure & Metadata Protocols"

Dublin Core-Science and Metadata Community (DC-SAM) and Research Data
Alliance (RDA) are hosting a day-long Metadata Interest Group workshop on 6
September 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. Submissions for participation are
currently open in the areas of short papers, abstracts, and position
statements.

Metadata is vital to the discovery and management of scientific data.
DC-SAM, RDA, and related communities advocate for access to, and shared
knowledge about, metadata standards that support data life-cycle
management. CAMP-4-DATA participants will explore infrastructure design,
applications, and policies that can advance the support of open, collective
and sustainable access to metadata standards used for managing scientific
data.  The intent of this workshop is to discuss and forward challenges and
opportunities relating to metadata standards for the management of
scientific data, and how policies, applications, and infrastructure can
foster creation of and access to sustainable, open, and collective
standards.

The CAMP-4-DATA workshop is part of post-conference activities of DC-2013.

Submissions will remain open through 12 July 2013.

=
--FULL PARTICIPATION CALL:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data-cfp
--WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data
--E X T E N D E D  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 12 JULY 2013
--DC-2013 WEBSITE: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013 (registration open /
day registration available)
=

[MCN-L] DC-2013 Special W3C-Sponsored Session on Vocabulary Preservation

[DCMI Announce]

* PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING*

*"Long-term Preservation and Governance of RDF Vocabularies"*

Special session, DC-2013, Lisbon, 3 September

DC-2013 WEBSITE: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013
DC-2013 DATES: 2-6 September 2013
DC-2013 PLACE: Lisbon, Portugal

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SESSION SPONSOR: W3C & DCMI
SESSION DATE/TIME: 3 September, 11:30-1600
   (Day registration available on conference wesbite)
SESSION MODERATORS:
  -- Phil Archer, World Wide Web Consortium
  -- Thomas Baker, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
  -- Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium
  -- Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche, Fujitsu
  -- Bernard Vatant, Mondeca
=

The oldest RDF vocabularies in existence are just fifteen years old.  It is
time to look systematically at how ownership and responsibility for today's
vocabularies will pass to the next generation.  DCMI and W3C are sponsoring
a special session at the DC-2013 conference in Lisbon on 3 September about
the long-term preservation and governance of RDF vocabularies [1].

This session focuses on issues related to the usability of RDF vocabularies
in the long term (as defined in "decades") -- continued access to
documentation, inheritance of ownership and maintenance responsibility, and
the continued resolvability of domain names.  What role might memory
institutions play in the long-term preservation of vocabularies?

A discussion paper has been prepared as a starting point for this session
[2], and readers are welcome to post comments or suggestions on the
DC-VOCABULARY mailing list ([3], sign up at [4]).

[1] http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/vocPres
[2]
http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Vocabulary_Preservation_discussion_paper
[3] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DC-VOCABULARY
[4] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=DC-VOCABULARY&A=1

[MCN-L] Second Call for Participation: CAMP-4-DATA Workshop @ DC-2013

[DCMI Announce]

*Apologies for cross-posting*

=== *2nd Call for Participation: CAMP-4-DATA Workshop @ DC-2013* ===

Dublin Core-Science and Metadata Community and Research Data Alliance are
hosting a day-long Metadata Interest Group workshop, CAMP-4-DATA, on Sept.
6, 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop is part of DC-2013.  Submissions
for participation are currently open in the areas of short papers,
abstracts, and position statements. The intent of this workshop is to
discuss and forward challenges and opportunities relating to metadata
standards for the management of scientific data, and how policies,
applications, and infrastructure can foster creation of and access to
sustainable, open, and collective standards.

Submissions will remain open through 28 June 2013.

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*--PARTICIPATION CALL:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data-cfp
*--WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:*
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/camp-4-data
*--SUBMISSION DEADLINE:* 28 June 2013
*--DC-2013 WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013 (registration open)
=

[MCN-L] DC-2013/iPRES-2013 registration is now open!

[DCMI Announce]

*Apologies for cross-posting*

=== DC-2013/iPRES 2013 INVITATION TO REGISTER ===

Registration for DC-2013 --Linking to the Future-- is now open.  The
conference will take place 2-6 September 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal.  The
conference website: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013.

The DC-2013 conference theme explores questions regarding the persistence,
maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The
need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors
including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and
commerce. In addition to the theme, presentations and discussion will cover
a broad range of topics on innovation in metadata design and practice.

DC-2013 will be collocated with iPRES-2013.  Both conferences will take
place in the same venue and run in parallel. During the collocated events,
delegates are welcome to choose sessions that best fit their interests from
either conference. Keynotes are held in common plenaries; and, social
events are shared, providing a excellent opportunity for DCMI and iPRES
delegates to socialize, share common interests and network. Delegates of
the two conferences may separately register for a mix of pre- and
post-conference events organized by the conference committees of both iPRES
and DCMI.

DC-2013 speakers and tutorial leads include: Gildas Illien, Ivan Herman,
Richard Wallis, Steven Miller, Kai Eckert, and Daniel Garijo, among many
others.  Full-day workshops include: (1) VocDay 2013: Managing
Vocabularies, sponsored by the DC-Vocabulary Management Community and
DC-Bibliographic Metadata Task Group; and (2) CAMP-4-Data:
Cyber-infrastructure and Metadata Protocols, sponsored by DC-Science &
Metadata Community (DC-SAM) & the Research Data Alliance (RDA).

To learn more about the conference program and to register, go to the
conference website http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013.  DC-2013 and
iPRES-2013 share a common registration.

Early registration closes on 8 July:
?350 early regular, early student ?250 (to 8 July)
?375 regular & student (after 8 July)
--Separate rates apply for pre-/post-conference sessions on Monday and
Friday
--Day rates are available

Registration questions? Contact for DC/iPRES 2013:  ipres2013 at ist.utl.pt

We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon in September.

[MCN-L] NISO/DCMI Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service

[DCMI Announce]

**Please excuse the cross postings**

Join NISO/DCMI for our joint May webinar

--Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions:
Experiences from the VIVO Service
--Date: May 22, 2013
--Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 17:00:00) (World Clock:
http://bit.ly/157qF2S)
--Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo/

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

VIVO is a semantic web application focused on discovering researchers and
research publications in the life sciences.  The service, which uses
open-source software originally developed and implemented at Cornell
University, operates by harvesting data about researcher interests,
activities, and accomplishments from academic, administrative,
professional, and funding sources.  Using a built-in, editable ontology for
describing things such as People, Courses, and Publications, data is
transformed into a Semantic-Web-compliant form.  VIVO provides automated
and self-updating processes for improving data quality and authenticity.
Starting with a classic Google-style search box, VIVO users can browse
search results structured around people, research interests, courses,
publications, and the like -- data that can be exposed for re-use by other
systems in a machine-readable format.

This webinar, held by a veteran at the Albert R. Mann Library Information
Technology Services department at Cornell, where the VIVO project was born,
presents the perspective of a software developer on the practicalities of
building a high-quality Semantic-Web search service on existing data
maintained in dozens of formats and software platforms at large, diverse
institutions.  The talk will highlight services that leverage the Semantic
Web platform in innovative ways, e.g., for finding researchers based on the
text content of a particular Web page and for visualizing networks of
collaboration across institutions.

SPEAKER:

John Fereira, a senior programmer/analyst and technology strategist at
Cornell University, is a contributing member of the VIVO project team.  He
also consults on issues related to information technology in higher
education with an emphasis on open-source, modular, distributed software
systems and is currently working on systems based on VIVO software for
international Agricultural Information systems communities.

Registration closes one hour before the webinar begins.

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo/

[MCN-L] NISO/DCMI webinar: Deployment of RDA Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data

[DCMI Announce]

**Please excuse the cross postings**

Join NISO/DCMI for our joint April webinar

--Webinar: Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging
and its Expression as Linked Data
--Date: April 24, 2013
--Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 17:00:00) (World Clock:
http://bit.ly/XySJt0)
--Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

A seminar at the British Library in April 2012 marked the fifth anniversary
of a 2007 meeting at which representatives of the Dublin Core, Semantic
Web, and RDA communities jointly recommended that the then-draft cataloging
standard RDA be provided in the form of vocabularies and application
profiles usable for Linked Data.

One year after this anniversary meeting and one year closer to the general
deployment of RDA in libraries, this webinar will take stock of progress
towards developing application profiles based on RDA and discuss the
practicalities of exposing RDA-based data in the Linked Data cloud.

SPEAKER:

Alan Danskin, Metadata Standards Manager at The British Library, where he
has worked in various capacities since 1987, including implementation of
MARC 21.  He currently represents the library on the Joint Steering
Committee for the Development of RDA (Resource Description and Access) for
which he until recently served as chair. He has served as chair of the
Cataloguing & Indexing Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals and is a member of the Book Industry
Communication Bibliographic Standards Group.

Registration closes one hour before the webinar begins.

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/

[MCN-L] CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED to 5 APRIL 2013 for DC-2013 in Lisbon

[DCMI Announce]

 Excuse the cross-posting 

Dear Colleagues:

The submission deadline has been EXTENDED TO 5 APRIL 2013 for papers,
project reports, and posters for DC-2013 in Lisbon.

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Call for Papers: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013/cfp
Conference Website: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013
Conference Dates: 2-6 September 2013
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The DC-2013 conference theme is "Linking to the Future":

"DC-2013 will explore questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and
preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable
representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural
heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. Thus, the
maintenance and management of metadata is essential to address the long
term availability of information of legal, cultural and economic value.  On
the web, data -- and especially descriptive vocabularies -- can change or
vanish from one moment to the next. Nonetheless, the web increasingly forms
the ecosystem for our vocabularies and our data. DC-2013 will bring
together in Lisbon the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to
engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing a
sustainable metadata ecosystem."

Beyond the conference theme, DCMI welcomes submissions of papers, project
reports and posters addressing the broad array of topics impacting metadata
research, design, and practice in domain and cross-domain contexts. Such
contexts include, but are not limited to, corporations, cultural memory
institutions, education, government, scientific fields, recordkeeping,
preservation, curation, institutional repositories, and publishing.

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DC-2013 in Lisbon will be collocated, and run simultaneously with,
iPRES-2013 offering delegates the opportunity to attend sessions of both
conferences and to build bridges between these synergistic groups.
 "Linking to the Future" demands attention to preservation and linkages to
the past.
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Program Committee Chairs:

Kai Eckert
Research Group Data and Web Science, University of Mannheim, Germany
Muriel Foulonneau
Knowledge Intensive Systems and Services, Tudor Research Centre,
Luxembourg

[MCN-L] Call for Comments: Mapping from Dublin Core to W3C PROV ontology

[DCMI Announce]

The DCMI Metadata Provenance Task Group [1] is collaborating with the W3C
Provenance Working Group [2] on a mapping from Dublin Core terms to the PROV
provenance ontology [3], currently a W3C Proposed Recommendation.  More
precisely, the document describes a partial mapping from DCMI Metadata Terms
[4] to the PROV-O OWL2 ontology [5] -- a set of classes and properties
usable
for representing and interchanging information about provenance. Numerous
terms
in the DCMI vocabulary provide information about the provenance of a
resource.
Translating these terms into PROV relates this information explicitly to the
W3C provenance model.

The mapping is currently a W3C Working Draft. The final state of the
document
will be that of a W3C Note, to be published as part of a suite of documents
in
support of a W3C Recommendation for provenance interchange [6].

DCMI would like to point to the W3C Note as a DCMI Recommended Resource and
therefore encourages the Dublin Core community to provide feedback and take
part in the finalization of the mapping.

The deadline for all comments is 7 April 2013.  We recommend that comments
be
provided directly to the public W3C list for comments:
public-prov-comments at w3.org [7], ideally with a Cc: to DCMI's dc-provenance
list [8].  Comments sent only to the dc-provenance list will be summarized
on
the W3C list and addressed, and discussions on the W3C list will be
summarized
back on the dc-provenance list when appropriate.

Stuart Sutton, Managing Director, DCMI

[1] http://dublincore.org/groups/provenance/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Main_Page
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-dc-20130312/
[4] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/
[6] http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/
[7] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-prov-comments/
[8] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=dc-provenance