News from 2020

This webinar is scheduled for Thursday, November 12th, 2020, 16:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.

The DCMI Virtual 2020 conference will feature a tutorial presentation, "Introduction to Annif and automated subject indexing", on September 21st. For practitioners that would like to learn how to use the Annif tool on their own, there will also be a follow-up hands-on tutorial organized by the National Library of Finland together with the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ZBW. The hands-on tutorial will consist of short pre-recorded video presentations, written instructions and practical exercises that explain and introduce various aspects of Annif and its use. The participants will complete the exercises and go through the material independently, on their own schedule. All of the tutorial material is freely available online (see the GitHub repository of the Annif tutorial). It is possible to complete the hands-on tutorial entirely on one's own.

Registration for DCMI Virtual 2020 is now open!

DCMI Virtual will be a programme of virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes, expert panel discussions, tutorials and presentations. We will make these as interactive as possible, with moderated question and answer sessions.

A Chinese-language webinar on "Metadata development in China", co-organized by Wuhan University, the DCMI Education Committee, and the Library Society of China, will be held on August 29, 9:00-11:00 Beijing time. The webinar, hosted by the School of Information Management at Wuhan University, will feature presentations by Lei Sa (National Library of China), Cuijuan Xia (Shanghai Library), Zhiqiang Wang (China National Institute of Standardization), Ruhua Huang (Library Society of China and Wuhan University, and Lu An (Wuhan University). Registration is open and free of charge to attend the live event. In the days after the event recordings of the webinar, with simultaneous translation into English and slides in both languages, will be made available on DCMI's YouTube channel.

This webinar is scheduled for Thursday, 20 August, 2020, 15:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.

This webinar is scheduled for Thursday, June 25, 2020, 15:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.

Following on from the success of DCMI 2019 in Seoul (see Proceedings), we are pleased to announce the call for proposals 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.

DCMI is pleased to announce the publication by ISO of a new international standard, ISO 15836 Part 2: "DCMI Properties and classes" (ISO 15836-2:2019). In parallel, a revised specification for DCMI Metadata Terms has been published on the DCMI website.