CALL FOR PAPERS
 
                        DC-2004
          International Conference on Dublin Core
               and Metadata Applications
 
                   11-14 October 2004
                    Shanghai, China
              http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/ 
 
Host:       Shanghai Library 
            - http://www.library.sh.cn/new-eng/ 
Sponsors:   Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences
            - http://www.las.ac.cn/ 
            National Science and Technology Library of China 
            - http://www.nstl.gov.cn/ 
            Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
            - http://dublincore.org/ 
 
Metadata based on standards such as Dublin Core is a key
component of information environments from scientific
repositories to corporate intranets and from business and
publishing to education and e-government.
 
DC-2004 -- the fourth in a series of conferences previously
held in Tokyo, Florence, and Seattle -- will examine a broad
range of metadata applications, especially with a view towards
improving interoperability across boundaries of language,
culture, and communities of practice.  Tutorials will provide
an introduction to metadata for non-experts.
 
In conjunction with DC-2004, the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative will hold technical working-group meetings and
Shanghai Library will host the 2004 Shanghai International
Library Forum (http://www.libnet.sh.cn/silf2004/).
 
The Conference track of DC-2004 invites submissions of papers
in the following areas:
 
-- Conceptual models for metadata
-- Interoperability among metadata systems and standards
-- Enterprise metadata
-- Globalization, localization, and multilinguality of metadata
-- Metadata for education, e-Government, and geospatial applications
-- Institutional Repositories and metadata harvesting
-- Search engines and metadata
-- Systems and tools for metadata applications
-- Metadata for cultural heritage and long-term preservation
-- Surveys, case studies, and novel activities based on metadata
-- Metadata registries and registry services
-- Metadata standardization
-- Ontologies and Semantic Web
-- Knowledge management
 
Paper Categories
 
  Regular Papers (8 to 10 pages) describe original work
  in detail.
 
  Short papers (2 to 4 pages) and posters describe a specific
  model, application, or activity in a concise format.
 
  Author guidelines and submission details can be found at
  http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/papers/.
 
  All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program
  committee and published both in print and electronically
  in the conference proceedings.
 
  All accepted papers must be presented at the conference by
  at least one of their authors.
 
Deadlines
 
  Paper submission              1 May 2004
  Poster submission             15 May 2004
  Acceptance notification       1 June 2004
  Camera-ready copy due         1 July 2004
 
Previous Dublin Core conferences
 
  DC-2001, Tokyo          http://www.nii.ac.jp/dc2001/ 
  DC-2002, Florence       http://www.bncf.net/dc2002/ 
  DC-2003, Seattle        http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/ 
 
Organization and chairs
 
  Program Co-chairs       Liu Wei (Shanghai Library)
                          Thomas Baker (Fraunhofer, Germany)
  Workshop Chair          Makx Dekkers (DCMI)