News

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.

DCMI is pleased to announce that Mike Lauruhn has accepted an appointment to the DCMI Governing Board as an Independent Member. Mike is Technology Research Director at Elsevier Labs and has been a longstanding participant in DCMI, serving as a member of the Education and Outreach Committee's "Linked Data for Professional Education (LD4PE) initiative" and as co-Program Chair for the DCMI annual conference in 2010. Before joining Elsevier Labs in 2010, he was a consultant with Taxonomy Strategies LLC working with numerous private companies, nonprofits, and government agencies to help define and implement taxonomies and metadata schemas. He began his library career cataloging at the California Newspaper Project at the Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research at the University of California, Riverside. Mike's three year term will begin at the close of DC-2016 in Copenhagen. For additional information, visit the Governing Board page at http://dublincore.org/about/oversight/#lauruhn.

DCMI is pleased to announce publication of the final program for DC-2016. The program consists of an array of presentations, lightning talks, papers, project reports, posters, special sessions, and workshops. To review the program, visit the Program Page at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/program where titles link to abstracts. Registration is open at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg16 with early rates available through 2 September 2016. Significant registration savings are available for DCMI members or ASIST members wishing to attend the collocated DC-2016 and ASIST conferences. The ASIST program is available at https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/program/ and with seminars and workshops at https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/seminars-and-workshops/.

DCMI is pleased to announce the publication of the Preliminary Program for DC-2016 at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/program. The program includes 28 Full Papers, Project Reports, and Presentations on Metadata as well as 14 Posters. Six Special Sessions on significant metadata topics as well as 6 half- and full-day Workshops round out the program. The keynote will be delivered by Bradley P. Allen, Chief Architect at Elsevier, the world's leading scientific publisher. The Final Program including the authors and abstracts of Papers, Project Reports, Posters, and Presentations on Metadata will be available on 15 August. Registration is now open at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg16 with an early registration rate available through 2 September 2016.

The submission deadline of 15 July is rapidly approaching for the Presentations and Best Practice Posters and Demos tracks at DC-2016. Both presentations and posters/demos provide the opportunity to practitioners and researchers specializing in metadata design, implementation, and use to present their work at the International Conference on Dublin Core™ and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen. No paper is required for presentations or posters/demos. Accepted submissions in the Presentations track will have approximately 20-25 minutes to present and 5-10 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposal abstracts will be reviewed for selection by the Program Committee. The presentation slide decks and the poster images will be openly available as part of the permanent record of the DC-2016 conference. If you are interested in presenting at DC-2016, please submit a proposal abstract through the DC-2016 submission system before the 15 July deadline at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2016/schedConf/cfp. For a fuller description of the Presentations track, see http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/pre16.