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DEADLINE EXTENSION to 12 June for DC-2017 submissions
by DCMI Announce 27 May '17

27 May '17

*==========Please excuse the cross-posting==========* *DEADLINE EXTENSION: DC-2017 Call for Participation* *Advancing metadata practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability* The deadline for submission has been extended for the DC-2017 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/> to be held in Washington, D.C., USA, October 26-29, 2017. *The revised submission deadline for all tracks is now 12 June 2017.* The revised Call for Participation is available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp. Following up on DC-2016 in Copenhagen with its look towards the changing role of metadata in the Second Machine Age, DC-2017 will focus on technologies and practices that are advancing how we can create and manage good metadata. Interoperability and openness have been guiding principles of the DCMI community for over twenty years, and these principles have evolved through the development of Semantic Web standards and Linked Open Data. A deluge of new data sources is magnifying the perennial challenge of metadata quality but also inspiring the development of innovative tools, practices, and solutions, the focus of this year's conference. *Submission categories include:* - Peer reviewed Papers, Project Reports and Posters; - Presentations on Metadata; (without paper); - Panels (Special Sessions); - Post-conference Tutorials and workshops. Beyond the focus of the conference theme, submission of papers, reports, presentations and poster are welcome in the following broad categories of metadata design, deployment and maintenance: - Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices - Curation, governance, and sustainability - Conceptual models and frameworks - Lessons from implementation - Interoperability and harmonization - Metadata quality and validation *Program Committee Chairs:* *Carol Jean Godby*, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research *Mike Lauruhn*, Disruptive Technology Director, Elsevier Labs For more information, visit the Call for Participation on the DC-2017 website <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp>.

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DCMI Webinar: How to Design & Build Semantic Applications with Linked Data
by DCMI Announce 20 May '17

20 May '17

********PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******** *How to Design & Build Semantic Applications with Linked Data* *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *=====================================================* *:: Presenter:* Dave Clarke, Synaptica *:: Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/Webinar-Clarke) *:: Date: *Wednesday, 14 June 2017 *:: Registration: *http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017clarke *=====================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* This webinar will demonstrate how to design and build rich end-user search and discovery applications using Linked Data. The Linked Open Data cloud is a rapidly growing collection of publicly accessible resources, which can be adopted and reused to enrich both internal enterprise projects and public-facing information systems. The webinar will use the Linked Canvas application as its primary use-case. Linked Canvas is an application designed by Synaptica for the cultural heritage community. It enables high-resolution images of artworks and artifacts to be catalogued and subject indexed using Linked Data. The talk will demonstrate how property fields and relational predicates can be adopted from open data ontologies and metadata schemes, such as DCMI, SKOS, IIIF and the Web Annotation Model. Selections of properties and predicates can then be recombined to create Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) customized for business applications. The demonstration will also illustrate how very-large-scale subject taxonomies and name authority files, such as the Library of Congress Name Authority File, DBpedia, and the Getty Linked Open Data Vocabularies collection, can be used for content enrichment and indexing. There will be a brief discussion of the general principles of graph databases, RDF triple stores, and the SPARQL query language. This technical segment will discuss the pros and cons of accessing remote server endpoints versus cached copies of external Linked Data resources, as well as the challenge of providing high-performance full text search against graph databases. The webinar will conclude by providing a demonstration of Linked Canvas to illustrate various end-user experiences that can be created with Linked Data technology: faceted search across data collections; pinch and zoom navigation inside images; the exploration of concepts and ideas associated with specific points of interest; the discovery of conceptually related images; and the creation of guided tours with embedded audio-visual commentary. *ABOUT THE PRESENTER:* *Dave Clarke* is co-founder and CEO of the Synaptica® group of companies, providers of enterprise software solutions for knowledge organization and discovery. He served on the authoring committee responsible for the 2005 version of the US national standard for controlled vocabularies, ANSI/NISO Z39.19. Dave leads research and development at Synaptica, where is developing an extensive range of software solutions for ontology management, image management, Linked Data management, and text analytics. He is actively involved in educational outreach programs including LD4PE, the Linked Data for Professional Education initiative of DCMI. Synaptica software solutions have attracted numerous international awards including: Knowledge Management World magazine’s 100 Companies that Matter in KM and Trend Setting Product of the Year (multiple awards between 2011 and 2017). In 2016 Clarke was awarded the Knowledge Management Leadership Award by the Global Knowledge Management Congress. Dave is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and an Associate of St. George’s House, Windsor Castle. He is currently researching the impact of personalized search and social media on social polarization and post-truth politics.

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DCMI Webinar: Me4MAP - A Method for the Development of Metadata Application Profiles
by DCMI Announce 10 May '17

10 May '17

********PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******** Me4MAP: A Method for the Development of Metadata Application Profiles *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *=========================================================* *:: Presenter:* Mariana Curado Malta *:: Dates:* Wednesday, 24 May 2017 (EN) | Wednesday, 31 May 2017 (PT) *:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT 24 May: (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/2017Malta-EN) - English 31 May: (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/2017Malta-PT) - Portuguese *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017Malta *=========================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* A metadata application profile (MAP) is a construct that provides a semantic model for enhancing interoperability when publishing to the Web of Data. With a MAP, each property is defined as an RDF vocabulary term with the definition of domain, range, and cardinality. According to the DCMI document "Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata", a MAP is a construct that enhances semantic interoperability. Therefore, when a community of practice agrees to follow a MAP's set of rules for publishing data as Linked Open Data, it makes it possible for such data published the LOD cloud to be processed automatically by software agents. A MAP is therefore a construct of great importance and the existence of a method for its development is essential to give MAP developers a common ground on which to work. The absence of such a method leads to a non-systematic set of MAP development activities that might result in MAPs with less quality. This Webinar will present Me4MAP, a method for the development of metadata application profiles. Me4MAP was defined in the context of a PhD and is still now being tested and refined. It is a method that is approached through a software engineering perspective. With Me4MAP, we do not propose a universal solution; rather, our intention is to establish a starting point for the study and design of methods for the development of MAPs. *ABOUT THE PRESENTER:* Mariana Curado Malta is an Associate Professor at Polythecnic of Oporto, Portugal and a researcher in CEOS.PP, Portugal. Currently, she is on leave in the Laboratorio de Inovación en Humanidades Digitales in the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid, Spain. Her research work is framed in a project (POSTDATA), financed by a European Research Council Starting Grant that aims to publish poetry data (and related data) as Linked Open Data. In POSTDATA she is responsible for the semantic modelling. Her research interests are related to methods for the development of metadata application profiles and the quality of MAPs in particular and metadata in general. She is the co-author of Me4MAP, a method for the development of metadata application profiles. Mariana Curado Malta has a PhD in Technologies and Information Systems from University of Minho, Portugal. She is the author of several research papers, book chapters, and recently co-edited the book “Developing metadata application profiles” published by IGI Global.

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Pl@ntNet post-doc position
by Alexis Joly 09 May '17

09 May '17

There is currently an opening for a post-doc position in machine learning applied to biodiversity informatics in Montpellier, France (see attached document). Kind regards, Alexis — Alexis Joly, PhD Inria, ZENITH team, LIRMM, rue saint Priest, Montpellier, France http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Alexis.Joly

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