News for 2012
DC-2012 online registration now open
Online registration for DC-2012 is now open at http://ktw.mimos.my/registration2012/. DC-2012 is part of the Knowledge Technology Week 2012 activities.
Friday, May 25, 2012
DC-2012 pre-conference semantic metadata tutorials
The two DC-2012 full-day pre-conference tutorials will each provide information professionals with beginning knowledge and skills necessary to design and development of semantic metadata including design of ontologies and controlled vocabularies useful in linked data on the open Web. The tutorials will also focus on design of metadata application profiles to meet an organization or company's needs to publish to the open Web using OWL and topic maps ontologies. Presenters Karen Coyle and Sam Oh have extensive experience teaching and working with professionals practicing in all forms of memory institutions (libraries, museums and archives) as well as the private sector.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Maintenance revision of DCMI Metadata Terms
The DCMI Usage Board has approved a revision of the usage note for the element Subject. This maintenance release has been undertaken in preparation for the routine five-year review of ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2007 ("The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set").
Monday, May 07, 2012
Presentations Available for 'Five Years On' Seminar at the British Library
Presentations from the successful DCMI-UK regional meeting "Five Years On" at the British Library on 26-27 April 2012 are available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/BibData/fyo. Additional resources from the Seminar and the collocated meetings of the DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group and the Vocabulary Management Community will be added to the website over the next several weeks.
Monday, May 07, 2012
DC-2012 Call for Participation closed
The Call for Papers and other contributions for DC-2012, to be hosted by MIMOS, 3-7 September in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, is now closed. Authors of submitted papers, project reports, posters, special sessions and DCMI Community workshop sessions will receive notification in late May. The preliminary program will be published in the first half of June.
Monday, April 02, 2012
New DCMI Task Group: Cultural Heritage Metadata Task Group established
DCMI is pleased to announce the creation of a Cultural Heritage Metadata Task Group to identify the challenges of metadata for cultural heritage and to provide a simple cross-community metadata model for Cultural Heritage Objects and give a recommendation for the development of DCMI Application Profiles. The Task Group is led by Advisory Board members Stefanie RŸhle (SUB Gšttingen) and Emad Khazraee (Drexel University).
Monday, April 02, 2012
Speakers chosen for DCMI-UK London meeting on libraries and the Semantic Web
The organizers of the DCMI-UK regional meeting at the British Library on 26-27 April 2012 are pleased to announce the preliminary list of speakers for the meeting including Barbara Tillett (Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (JSC)), Robina Claphan (Europeana), Mirna Willer (IFLA ISBD Review Group), Pat Riva (IFLA FRBR Review Group), Thomas Baker (DCMI), Gordon Dunsire (IFLA Namespaces Technical Group and DCMI), Diane Hillmann (DCMI and Metadata Management Associates) and Owen Stephens (JISC).
Monday, April 02, 2012
DC-2012 Call for Papers: Deadline extended until 30 March 2012
The Organizing Committee for DC-2012 is happy to announce that the deadline for submissions for DC-2012, to be held 3-7 September 2012 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, has been extended to 30 March 2012. We are looking forward to your contributions!
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
NISO/DCMI Webinar: Schema.org and Linked Data: Complementary Approaches to Publishing Data
A NISO/DCMI Webinar with Dan Brickley will be held online at 1:00PM Eastern Time (17:00 UTC) on 25 April 2012. Registration for this webinar closes 25 April 2012 at 12:00PM Eastern (16:00 UTC). Dan Brickley will explore how the publication methods of Schema.org relate to the methods used to publish Linked Data. Must data providers commit to one or the other, or can the two approaches exist side-by-side, even reinforcing each other?
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Ibero-American DCMI Community on Facebook
The Ibero-American DCMI community has created Cafeteria DCMI on Facebook for sharing and metadata discussions in Spanish and Portuguese. Espaço de partilha e discussão da comunidade Ibero-Americana de metadados / Espacio de intercambio y discusión de la comunidad Iberoamericana de metadatos. Join the conversation!
Wednesday, February 08, 2012