Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

NISO/DCMI Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2013-05-08T23:59:00Z

2013-05-08, A NISO/DCMI Webinar with John Fereira will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time on 22 May 2013 (17:00 UTC - see World Clock: http://bit.ly/157qF2S). This webinar will present the perspectives 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 using Vivo, a semantic web application focused on discovering researchers and research publications in the life sciences. 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. The webinar 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. Additional information can be found at http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo/. Registration for the webinar closes 22 May 2013 at 12:00PM Eastern (16:00 UTC).

DC-2013 Session: Long-term Preservation and Governance of RDF Vocabularies

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2013-04-17T23:59:00Z

2013-04-17, The DC-2013 Special Session titled Long-term Preservation and Governance of RDF Vocabularies will be sponsored by W3C and will focuses on issues related to the usability of RDF vocabularies in the long term (as defined in "decades") including continued access to documentation, inheritance of ownership and maintenance responsibility, and the continued resolvability of domain names. The usability of Linked Data relies on the ability to interpret what the data means, which depends on the availability of the RDF vocabularies used in the data. RDF vocabularies are created by a wide range of people and institutions, from individual researchers to national libraries and for-profit corporations, for a wide range of descriptive requirements. 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. For a fuller description, see http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/vocPres. DC-2013 will be held in Lisbon 2-6 September 2013. The conference website can be found at http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013..

DCMI Call for Feedback: Mapping from Dublin Core terms to W3C PROV ontology

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2013-03-20T23:59:00Z

2013-03-20, DCMI seeks community feedback on a proposed DCMI Recommended Resource. The deadline for feedback is 7 April 2013. The DCMI Metadata Provenance Task Group is collaborating with the W3C Provenance Working Group on a mapping from Dublin Core terms to the PROV provenance ontology, currently a W3C Proposed Recommendation. 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. Details for providing feedback are available at http://dublincore.org/#technical.

NISO/DCMI Webinar: Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2013-03-20T23:59:00Z

2013-03-20, A NISO/DCMI Webinar with Alan Danskin of The British Library will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time (17:00 UTC) on 24 April 2013. Registration for this webinar closes 24 April 2013 at 12:00PM Eastern (16:00 UTC). 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. Additional information can be found at http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/.

Z39.85-2012 maintenance revision published

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2013-02-28T23:59:00Z

2013-02-28, The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced the publication of a maintenance revision of The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2012). The new version of the ANSI/NISO standard corresponds to version 1.1 of the specification on the DCMI website at http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Additional information about Z39.85-2012 can be found on the NISO Project Page.

Deadline for DC-2013 submissions - 29 March 2013

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2013-02-01T23:59:00Z

2013-02-01, The deadline for submissions to DC-2013 in Lisbon has been set for 29 March. The call for participation is available at http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013/cfp. Submissions are being accepted for full papers, project reports, and posters. Special session proposals are also being accepted. DC-2013 is being collocated with iPRES 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal on 2-6 September 2013.

Joint DC-2013 / iPRES 2013 Doctoral Symposium at DC-2013

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2013-02-01T23:59:00Z

2013-02-01, DCMI and iPRES are pleased to announce that they will be holding a Joint Doctoral Symposium on 2 September 2013 at their collocated conferences in Lisbon, Portugal. A specific call for contributions will be issued and will be available at http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013/cds. The Symposium and the collocated conferences will provide the Symposium participants with the opportunity to engage with colleagues from around the world and contribute to the development of their research and social networks. The co-chairs of the Symposium are Eva M�ndez, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain and Artur Caetano, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal.

W3C Working Draft: "Dublin Core to PROV Mapping" available

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-12-18T23:59:00Z

2012-12-18, A Working Draft of "Dublin Core to PROV Mapping" has been made available by W3C at http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-dc-20121211/. The document provides a mapping between the PROV-O OWL2 ontology and the Dublin Core Terms Vocabulary. The Dublin Core Metadata Terms mapping document is part of the PROV family of documents defining various aspects that are necessary to achieve the vision of inter-operable interchange of provenance information in heterogeneous environments such as the Web.

Ana Alice Baptista and Eva M. M�ndez join DC-2013 Conference Committee

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-12-18T23:59:00Z

2012-12-18, Ana Alice Baptista, Universidade do Minho of Braga, Portugal and Eva M. Méndez, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain have been named to the DC-2013 Conference Committee. Baptista will serve as Chair of the Tutorial Committee and Méndez will serve as a co-Chair of the Doctoral Symposium with a yet-to-be appointed co-Chair for the collocated meeting of IPRES. DC-2013 will be hosted by the Instituto Superior Técnico and take place 2-6 September 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal. Additional information is available on the conference website at http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013.

DC-2013 Call for Papers published

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-11-28T23:59:00Z

2012-11-28, The Call for Papers for DC-2013, to be hosted by the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal, 2-6 September 2013, has been published at http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013/cfp. The call solicits submissions for Full Papers, Project Reports, Posters, Special Sessions and DCMI Community Workshop Sessions. Deadline for submissions is 29 March 2013.

DC-2013 conference theme announced: "Linking to the Future"

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-11-28T23:59:00Z

2012-11-28, DC-2013 in Lisbon 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. DC-2013 will be collocated and run simultaneous with iPRES 2013 providing a rich environment for synergistic exploration of issues common to both communities. Information about the conference can be found at http://purl.org/dcevents/dc2013.

NISO/DCMI Webinar: Translating the library catalog from MARC into Linked Data: An update on the Bibliographic Framework Initiative

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-11-28T23:59:00Z

2012-11-28, NISO/DCMI Webinar with Eric Miller will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time (18:00 UTC) on 23 January 2013. Registration for this webinar closes 23 January 2013 at 12:00PM Eastern (17:00 UTC). In May 2012, the Library of Congress announced a new modeling initiative focused on reflecting the MARC 21 library standard as a Linked Data model for the Web, with an initial model to be proposed by the consulting company Zepheira. The goal of the initiative is to translate the MARC 21 format to a Linked Data model while retaining the richness and benefits of existing data in the historical format. In this webinar, Eric Miller of Zepheira will report on progress towards this important goal, starting with an analysis of the translation problem and concluding with potential migration scenarios for a broad-based transition from MARC to a new bibliographic framework. Additional information can be found at at http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/bibframework/.

DCMI revises membership programs

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-11-09T23:59:00Z

2012-11-09, DCMI has substantial revised its membership programs with the goal of broadening participation for public- and private-sector institutions, and, for the first time, membership participation by individuals. Implementation of the revised programs will take place in two phases with the first starting immediately with the Institutional Partner program for public-sector institutions wishing to participate in DCMI governance. The Supporting Partner program provides private-sector companies with the means to financially support the work of DCMI. Beginning in the 1st quarter of 2013, the second phase will include a Supporting Member program that includes discounted registration fees for the DCMI conferences and webinars. Information about all of the programs can be found at http://dublincore.org/about/membershipPrograms/.

NISO and DCMI announce Joint Webinar Series for 2013

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-11-09T23:59:00Z

2012-11-09, NISO and DCMI announce the schedule of their joint series of six webinars for 2013 at http://dublincore.org and http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/. Details including presenters and abstracts to follow. Webinar titles include: Translating the Library Catalog from MARC into Linked Data: An Update on the Bibliographic Framework Initiative, Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data, Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service, Implementing Linked Data in Developing Countries and Low-Resource Conditions, Metadata for Public Sector Administration, and Cooperative Authority Control.

DCMI launches donations program

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-10-08T23:59:00Z

2012-10-08, DCMI has created a Donations Program to support specific DCMI activities. Descriptions of donation categories are available at http://dublincore.org/support/. In addition to donations targeting support for DCMI International Conference fellowships to defray travel and accommodations costs for select fellows, the Program includes support for current DCMI Work Themes: "Platform-independent Application Profiles", 'Mapping Diverse Vocabularies" and "Sustainable Vocabularies". Work theme donations will be used primarily to support stipends to community members who take on editorial responsibilities for specific work themes. In addition, work theme donations provide community members with the means to "vote" regarding which theme or themes are most important to them.

NISO/DCMI Webinar: Embedding Linked Data invisibly into Web pages: Strategies and workflows for publishing with RDFa

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-09-17T23:59:00Z

2012-09-17, A NISO/DCMI Webinar with Brian Sletten and Stéphane Corlosquet will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time (17:00 UTC) on 24 October 2012. Registration for this webinar closes 24 October 2012 at 12:00PM Eastern (16:00 UTC). This webinar will describe how RDFa and Drupal 7 can improve how organizations publish information and data on the Web for both internal and external consumption. It will discuss what is required to use these features and how they impact publication workflow. The talk will focus on high-level and accessible demonstrations of what is possible. Technical people should learn how to proceed while non-technical people will learn what is possible. A full description of the webinar can be found at http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/publishing_with_RDFa/.

Planning begins for DC-2013 in Lisbon

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-09-17T23:59:00Z

2012-09-17, Planning for DC-2013 in Lisbon, Portugal on 2-6 September 2013 has started. The conference will be collocated with iPRES 2013 and will be hosted by IST - Instituto Superior Técnico (Engineering School of the Lisbon Technical University). Muriel Foulonneau (Henri Tudor Research Centre) and Kai Eckert (Mannheim University Library) have agreed to serve as Program Committee co-chairs.

Eric Childress appointed as member of the DCMI Oversight Committee

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-08-20T23:59:00Z

2012-08-20, It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Eric Childress to the DCMI Oversight Committee for a three year term as an Independent Member. The Oversight Committee is DCMI's governing body on policy and strategy. Eric is a Consulting Project Manager with OCLC Research and has been active in the Dublin Core beginning with the DC-3: CNI/OCLC Workshop on Metadata for Networked Images (1996). Eric currently serves as an active member of the DCMI Advisory Board and as a member of the @dublincore Twitter editorial team.

DC-2012 is drawing near!

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-08-20T23:59:00Z

2012-08-20, The start of DC-2012 to be held 3-7 September 2012 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia is now two weeks away. We are still accepting registrations. It will still be possible to register on-site during the event. The final program is available.

Final Program published for DC-2012

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-07-18T23:59:00Z

2012-07-18, The organizing committee of DC-2012 has published the final program of the event. DC-2012 is part of Knowledge Technology Week 2012. On Monday and Tuesday, 3-4 September there will be two full-day Tutorials on Semantic Metadata. The program for the conference on Wednesday through Friday, 5-7 September includes plenary keynotes and paper sessions, posters, workshop and special sessions. You can show your interest at LinkIn and at Lanyrd. Twitter stream at @dcmi12, hashtag #dcmi12. Registration is now open.

NISO/DCMI Webinar: Metadata for Managing Scientific Research Data

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-07-18T23:59:00Z

2012-07-18, A NISO/DCMI Webinar with Jane Greenberg will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time (17:00 UTC) on 22 August 2012. Registration for this webinar closes 22 August 2012 at 12:00PM Eastern (16:00 UTC). The webinar will provide an historical perspective and an overview of current metadata practices for managing scientific data, with examples drawn from operational repositories and community-driven data science initiatives. It will discuss challenges and potential solutions for metadata generation, identifiers, name authority control, Linked Data, and data citation. A full description of the webinar can be found at http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/scientific_data/.

JES and Co. Joins as DC-2012 Sponsors

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Limited — 2012-07-06T23:59:00Z

2012-07-06, JES and Co. has joined DCMI and MIMOS Berhad in bringing you DC-2012 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. JES and Co. is a U.S. nonprofit and a leader in the deployment of Linked Data principles in the service of education in the U.S. and in linking educational resources globally.

Preliminary Program for DC-2012 published