News from 2024
The DCMI 2024 Student Forum announces its award winners after a thorough review process. First place is awarded to Shengnan Zhao, supervised by Prof. Chunqiu Li, for developing a metadata framework to document and preserve Chinese paper-cutting, enhancing its inheritance as intangible cultural heritage. Second place goes to Wenjing Wu, supervised by Prof. Junzhi Jia, for exploring the integration of intelligent construction metadata to improve efficiency in the construction industry. Held virtually on October 16, 2024, the forum enabled master’s and doctoral students worldwide to share ideas on metadata innovation. All presenters received free conference registration, and the winners will receive prizes of $300 and $200, respectively.
Data is now the cornerstone of advanced research across various fields, including the humanities and social sciences. These disciplines increasingly rely on data, generating new information as evidence or demonstrating innovative practices. To combat research fraud and promote broader dissemination, publication venues now require data sharing. Recognizing the importance of open data environments, it’s crucial to provide scholars with easy access. Despite growing interest, efforts in data aggregation and dissemination remain inconsistent. The Dublin Core Data Institute (DCDI) aims to unite data scientists and scholars, establishing a federated data service to address key challenges and develop comprehensive open data resources for humanities and social science research.
An NKOS Workshop will be held at DCMI 2024, the twenty-second International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, October 20-23, Toronto, Canada. The NKOS Workshop is particularly interested in how knowledge organization systems (KOS) are being used or can be used to make automation intelligent. For example, one problem with LLMs is “hallucinations” where the application generates a response to a prompt that is “correct” but not true. How can KOS be integrated with LLMs to guide their responses so that they do not produce “hallucinations”? The workshop will feature demonstrations from projects working in this exciting area.