News from 2016
The DCMI Governing Board is pleased to announce that University of Edinburgh
has joined DCMI as an Institutional Member. The University of Edinburgh is a world-leading centre of academic excellence with the mission to create, disseminate and curate knowledge. As a great civic university, Edinburgh especially values its intellectual and economic relationship with the Scottish community that forms its base and provides the foundation from which it will continue to look to the widest international horizons, enriching both itself and Scotland. Alasdair MacDonald with the Edinburgh University Library will represent the University on the DCMI Governing Board. For information on becoming a DCMI Institutional Member, visit the DCMI membership page at http://dublincore.org/support/.
DCMI is pleased to announce that Göttingen State and University Library
(SUB Göttingen) has joined DCMI as an Institutional Member. SUB Göttingen is one of most important research libraries in Germany, plays a leading role in a large number of national and international projects involving the optimization of literature and information provision and the establishment and development of digital research and information infrastructures. Its scope of activities include the cooperative development of a Germany-wide service infrastructure for the acquisition, licensing and provision of electronic resources; the coordination of large-scale joint research projects for developing research infrastructures in the humanities and cultural sciences in Germany; and the consortial establishment of Open Access research infrastructures linked across Europe and the world. Stefanie Rühle with the Data Conversion Group will represent SUB Göttingen on the DCMI Governing Board.
DCMI is pleased to announce that Synaptica is supporting DC-2016 in Copenhagen as a Gold Sponsor. Since 1995, Synaptica has been developing innovative software tools for organizing, indexing and classifying information, and for discovering knowledge. All of Synaptica's award-winning software products are built on a foundation of open standards and a commitment to client-led solutions and uncompromising customer service. Synaptica's Linked Canvas will be featured in a demonstration during the Conference Opening Reception. Linked Canvas is an easy-to-use tool designed for the cultural heritage community as well as schools and colleges to build interactive educational resources. For more information about Synaptica and Linked Canvas, visit http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/sponsors16#synaptica. Visit http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016 for more information about the conference and to register.
Stuart Sutton has announced his intention to step down as DCMI Managing Director effective 30 June 2017. Over the coming months, the DCMI Executive Committee and the Governing Board will be engaged in succession planning and the process of replacing the Managing Director. For additional information concerning the succession and appointment process, contact DCMI Chair-Elect Paul Walk at p[dot]walk[at]ed[dot]ac[dot]uk. Future announcements concerning the succession process will be posted here from time to time.
DC-2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark on 13-16 October is rapidly approaching. The program promises a rich array of papers, project reports, presentations, demonstrations, posters, special panels, workshops and an exciting keynote by Elsevier's Bradley Allen. You will not want to miss this one! Register now at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg16.
The Danish Bibliographic Centre (DBC) joins in supporting DC-2016 in Copenhagen as Sponsor of the Conference Delegate Bags. The DBC's main task in Denmark is the development and maintenance of the bibliographic and IT infrastructure of Danish libraries. The DBC handles registration of books, music, AV materials, Internet documents, articles and reviews in newspapers and magazines in the National Bibliography, develops Danbib, the Danish union catalogue, and the infrastructure for interlibrary loan. Danbib is comprised of the National Bibliography and the holdings of the libraries. DBC also develops bibliotek.dk the citizen's access to all Danish publications and the holdings of the Danish libraries. DBC's IT development is based on open source and service oriented architecture. DBC is a public limited company owned by Local Government Denmark and the Danish State.
The DCMI Governing Board is pleased to announce that Ana Alice Baptista has been appointed to the DCMI Governing Board as an Independent Member. She also assumes the role of Chair-Elect of the Governing Board at the closing ceremony of DC-2016 in Copenhagen. She will succeed Paul Walk as Chair of the Board in 2017. Ana is a professor at the Information Systems Department and a researcher at ALGORITMI Center, both at University of Minho, Portugal. She graduated in computer engineering and has a PhD on Information Systems and Technologies. She is also a member of the Elpub conference series Executive Committee, participated in several research and development projects, and was an evaluator of project proposals under FP7. For more information about the Governing Board, visit the DCMI website at http://dublincore.org/about/oversight/.
DCMI is pleased to announce that Tongfang Co., Ltd. has become the DC-2016 Reception Sponsor. Tongfang is a high-tech company established in 1997. Over the years, Tongfang has taken 'developing into a world-class high-tech enterprise' as its goal, and 'serving the society with science and technology' as its mission. The company, by making use of strengths of Tsinghua University in research and human resources, has been implementing such strategies as 'technology + capital', 'cooperation and development' and 'branding + internationalization'. With a corporate culture featuring 'action, exploration and excellence; loyalty, responsibility and value', Tongfang has been making explorations and innovations in industries of information, energy and environment. As of 2013, Tongfang's has a total asset of more than $5 billion. Its annual revenue was over $3.5 billion. For more information on becoming a sponsor for DC-2016, see http://dcevents.dublincore.org/public/sponsors/Sponsor-16.pdf. Visit the conference website at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/.
DCMI is pleased to announce that Shanghai RFID System Technology Co., Ltd., has become a Gold Sponsor of DC-2016 in Copenhagen. Founded on October 10, 2004, Shanghai RFID System Technology Co., Ltd. is a leading automatic management solution provider for libraries in China. The library of Chenyi College, Jimei University was the first library installed with RFID automatic system in China. In the past 12 years, the company has provided services for more than 400 libraries in China such as National Library of China, Shanghai Library, and Hangzhou Library. The services provided include library self-service system, book automatic sorting system, digital reading solution, device monitoring, mini library, cloud and big data platform, knowledge discovery system, and mobile applications in library. For more information on becoming a sponsor for DC-2016, see http://dcevents.dublincore.org/public/sponsors/Sponsor-16.pdf. Visit the conference website at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/.
Today, OCLC and Internet Archive announced that the two "organizations have worked together to build a new sustainable PURL service hosted by Internet Archive that will manage existing and future persistent URLs and sub-domain redirections for purl.org, purl.com and purl.net." (OCLC press release) All previous PURLs have been transferred to the Internet Archive and ongoing maintenance by their owners will continue within a significantly improved context. The new interface is located at http://www.archive.org/services/purl. DCMI congratulates both OCLC and Internet Archive on this significant achievement.