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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND INITIAL CALL FOR PAPERS
DC-2008 -- International Conference on Dublin Core
and Metadata Applications
http://dc2008.de/
"Metadata for Semantic and Social
Applications"
22-26 September 2008
Berlin
The annual Dublin Core conferences bring together leading
metadata researchers and professionals from around the
world.
DC-2008 in Berlin will be the eighth in a series of
conferences
held previously in Tokyo, Florence, Seattle, Shanghai,
Madrid,
Manzanillo, and Singapore. The conference is organized
jointly
by the Competence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM),
Max Planck Digital Library, Göttingen State and University
Library, the German National Library, Humboldt Universität
zu
Berlin, and Dublin Core Metadata Initiative with
sponsorship
from Wikimedia Deutschland.
CONFERENCE THEME
Metadata is a key aspect of our evolving infrastructure for
information management, social computing, and scientific
collaboration.
DC-2008 will focus on metadata challenges, solutions, and
innovation in initiatives and activities underlying
semantic
and social applications. Metadata is part of the fabric of
social computing, which includes the use of wikis, blogs,
and tagging for collaboration and participation. Metadata
also underlies the development of semantic applications,
and the Semantic Web -- the representation and integration
of multimedia knowledge structures on the basis of semantic
models. These two trends flow together in applications
such
as Wikipedia, where authors collectively create structured
information that can be extracted and used to enhance
access
to and use of information sources.
Recent discussion has focused on how existing bibliographic
standards can be expressed as Semantic Web vocabularies
to facilitate the integration of library and cultural
heritage data with other types of data. Harnessing the
efforts of content providers and end-users to link, tag,
edit, and describe their information in interoperable ways
("participatory metadata") is a key step towards
providing
knowledge environments that are scalable, self-correcting,
and evolvable.
DC-2008 will explore conceptual and practical issues in the
development and deployment of semantic and social
applications
to meet the needs of specific communities of practice.
Papers, reports, and poster submissions are welcome on a
wide
range of metadata topics, such as:
+ Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)
+ Semantic Web metadata and applications
+ Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
+ Social tagging
+ Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and Simple Knowledge
Organization Systems (SKOS) (e.g., ontologies,
taxonomies,
authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri)
+ Metadata in e-Science and grid applications
+ Metadata interoperability and internationalization
+ Metadata quality, normalization, and mapping
+ Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping,
preservation, institutional repositories)
+ Vocabulary registries and registry services
+ Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory
institutions, education, government, and scientific
fields)
+ Application profiles
+ Accessibility metadata
+ Search engines and metadata
+ Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
+ Bibliographic standards (e.g., Resource Description and
Access
(RDA), Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
(FRBR),
subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies
SUBMISSIONS:
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the International
Program Committee and published in the conference
proceedings.
The Committee is soliciting paper contributions of the
following three types:
-- FULL PAPERS (8 to 10 pages)
Full papers either describe innovative original work
in
detail or provide critical, well-referenced overviews
of key
developments or good practice in the areas outlined
above.
Full papers will be assessed using the following
criteria:
o Originality of the approach to implementation
o Generalizability of the methods and results
described
o Quality of the contribution to the implementation
community
o Significance of the results presented
o Clarity of presentation
-- PROJECT REPORTS (4 pages)
Project reports describe a specific model, application,
or
activity in a concise, prescribed format. Project
reports
will be assessed using the following criteria:
o Conciseness and completeness of technical
description
o Usability of the technical description by other
potential
implementers
o Clarity of presentation
Paper submissions in both categories must be in English and
will be published in both the print and the official
electronic
versions of the conference proceedings. Accepted papers
must
be presented in Berlin by at least one of their authors.
-- POSTERS (1 page)
Posters are for the presentation of projects or
research under
development or late-breaking results. Poster
proposals
should consist of a title, an extended abstract, and
contact information for the authors. Accepted posters
will be displayed at the conference and may include
additional materials, space permitting. Abstracts of
posters will appear in the conference proceedings.
ONLINE SUBMISSION
Authors wishing to submit papers, reports, or poster
proposals may do so through the DCMI Peer Review System
at http://w
ww.dcmipubs.org/ojs/index.php/pubs/. Author
registration and links to the submission process appear
under
the "Information for Authors" link.
DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES
Papers/reports/posters submission: 30 March 2008
Acceptance notification: 15 May 2008
Camera-ready copy due: 15 June 2008
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
-- Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill <janeg (at)
ils.unc.edu>
-- Wolfgang Klas, Universität Wien <Wolfgang.Klas (at)
univie.ac.at>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jane Greenberg, Francis Carroll McColl Term Professor,
and Director of the Metadata Research Center <MRC>
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3360, 205 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3360
Email: janeg ils.unc.edu
Tel.: 919-962-8066; fax.: 919-962-8071
Web: http://ils.unc.edu/~janeg
<MRC>: http://ils.unc.edu/mrc
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
Corey A Harper
Metadata Services Librarian
Bobst Library, B42-LL1
New York University
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
212.998.2479
corey.harpernyu.edu
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Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing
and Information Science,
October 19-24, in Milwaukee
Plenaries: Anthea Stratigos, Outsell (research and advisory
firm)
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
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