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Announcing an IFLA Satellite event: Friday, August 19 at 11:30 AM at OCLC in Dublin, OH. The Dublin Core™ originated in 1995 at a meeting at OCLC (in the very room where this IFLA Satellite event will take place). This special event will bring an historical view of DCMI's history through people who were there when the Web was young and Dublin Core™ was new and evolving rapidly. Presenters will include metadata experts with long ties to Dublin Core™ including several who were at the original invitational meeting in 1995. A panel discussion will permit speakers to reflect on activities and trends past and present, and project what the future will look like. Attendees are invited to attend a complimentary reception and special unveiling following the presentation portion of the day. The event is being sponsored by the IFLA Information Technology Section and the Dublin Core™ Metadata Initiative with support from OCLC. Additional information and registration is available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dublin-core-at-21-tickets-25525829443.
The deadline of 15 July is approaching for abstract submissions for the Presentations on Metadata track and the Best Practice Poster track for DC-2016 in Copenhagen. Both tracks provide metadata practitioners and researchers the opportunity to present their work in Copenhagen. Neither of the tracks require a paper submission. Submit your proposal abstract for either track at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/cfp. Selections for presentation in Copenhagen will be made by the DC-2016 Organizing Team.
Registration for DC-2016 is now open at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg16. The International Conference takes place on 13-14 October and the Workshop Series on 15-16. Separate registrations are available for the Conference and Workshops. DC-2016 in Copenhagen is collocated in the same venue with the ASIST Annual Meeting that takes place from 14-18 October. Special rates for the ASIST meeting are available to DCMI members. The program for DC-2016 will include papers, project reports, posters (research and best practice) and presentations on metadata. In addition, there will be a series of topical special sessions and two days of workshops. For more information and to register, visit the DC-2016 conference website at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/.
DCMI is proud to announce a series of four workshops as part of the Professional program at DC-2016. Both half-day and full-day workshops are available. Abstracts of the workshops are available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/workshop. Delegates to DC-2016 may register for both the International Conference and the Workshops individually at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg16. Day and half-day rates for individual workshops are also available.
IFLA Satellite Event. Dublin Core™ at 21 celebrates DC's amazing 21 year history and anticipates its future. The Dublin Core™ originated in 1995 at a meeting at OCLC (in the very room where this IFLA Satellite event will also take place). This special event will bring a historical view of key people who were there when the Web was young, and Dublin Core™ was new, and evolving rapidly. But the Web does not stand still. Presentations will also provide information on the latest metadata standards-related work underway by DCMI and OCLC's current work with metadata models, standards, and technologies advancing the state of the art for libraries and archives. Presenters will include metadata experts with long ties to Dublin Core™ including several who were at the original invitational meeting in 1995. A panel discussion will permit speakers to reflect on activities and trends past and present. Attendees are invited to attend a complimentary reception and special unveiling following the presentation portion of the day. For more information and to register for this IFLA Satellite event, go to http://bit.ly/dcmi21.
The Conference Committee for DC-2016 is pleased to announce that it has opened a Presentation Track for DC-2016 in Copenhagen to provide developers, practitioners, and researchers with the opportunity to present on interesting metadata topics in the areas of metadata services, development and deployment projects, metadata explorations underway, and other innovative developments in the metadata ecosystem. Selections will be made by the Professional Program Committee. The presentations will become part of the permanent record of the DC-2016 conference and will be openly available. Proposal deadline: Friday, 8 July 2016. For more information on the Presentation Track and to submit a proposal, see http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/pre16.
The 16th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop will take place at the DC-2016 conference in Copenhagen. Proposals are invited for the following: (a) Presentations (typically 20 minutes plus discussion time, potentially longer if warranted) on work related to the themes of the workshop (see below). An option for a short 5 minute project report presentation is also possible; and (b) Demos on work related to the themes of the workshop. The submission deadline is Friday, 1 July 2016 with notification of acceptance by Tuesday, 16th August 2016. The Call for Participation can be found on the conference website at http://bit.ly/nkos16 and on the NKOS website at https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2016-dc/call-for-papers.html.
Bradley P. Allen, Chief Architect at Elsevier, will deliver the keynote address at DC-2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Brad has been a serial entrepreneur who has built and led teams in the design, development, launch and operation of innovative Web businesses. He works at the nexus of information retrieval, linked data and machine learning technologies, and is two for three on successful startup exits. Brad leads the Architecture group within Elsevier's technology organization, focusing on aligning technology vision and roadmap with corporate strategy, helping core development teams build and evolve products and infrastructure, and guiding Elsevier Labs' collaborative research into the future of scientific and medical publishing. For more information about the conference, visit http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/ and subscribe to receive notifications. Conference registration will open June 1.
DCMI/ASIS Webinar: This webinar with Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez, University of Murcia, presents the modeling and publishing process of the vocabularies for the UNESKOS project by applying Semantic Web technologies. More specifically, the vocabularies represented are the UNESCO Thesaurus and the Nomenclature for fields of Science and Technology. Both vocabularies are published as RDF datasets with a structure that allows its query and reuse according to the principles of Linked Open Data. The webinar will demonstrate the application of ISO-25964 standard to represent the UNESCO thesaurus using SKOS and the ISO-THES ontology. Technological solutions used for the project will also be discussed. For more information about the webinar and to register, visit http://dublincore.org/resources/#2016sanchez.
Upon request, DCMI is extending the submission deadline for papers, project reports, and posters for the DC-2016 Technical Program from 13 May to 27 May 2016. The Call for Participation can be found on the conference website at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/cfp.