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Doctoral research fellow at the Natural History Museum in Oslo and GBIF-Norway
by Dag Endresen 19 May '13

19 May '13

Dear all, The Natural History Museum in Oslo offers 4 year PhD position. The subject of the PhD project is "Thermophilous vascular plants: data quality, distributional constraints and responses to climate change". The PhD position will include a component of research related to biodiversity informatics with connections to the Norwegian participant node to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF-Norway). GBIF-Norway is hosted by the Natural History Museum of the University in Oslo. For more information see: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/973441/71922?iso=no Deadline for application is: 2 June 2013. Regards Dag -- Dag Endresen, PhD Private email: dag.endresen(a)gmail.com Work email: dag.endresen(a)nhm.uio.no Mobile: +47 4061 2982

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Fwd: Please participate (very brief survey!) for data contributors, curators, administrators, repository developers
by Hilmar Lapp 17 May '13

17 May '13

Begin forwarded message: From: "Greenberg, Jane" <janeg(a)email.unc.edu> Subject: Please participate (very brief survey!) for data contributors, curators, administrators, repository developers Date: May 17, 2013 1:45:53 PM EDT To: Bryan <pbryan.heidorn(a)gmail.com>, "Moen, William" <William.Moen(a)unt.edu>, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp(a)nescent.org> Hola guys.. this survey is about the use of controlled vocabularies, and comes out of HIVE work, connected w/DataONE and DFC datanets. We’d love to reach the GBIF community. Would one of you be able to forward? We’d be grateful. [...] On behalf of Jane Greenberg, Director of Metadata Research Center -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings all, (Please participate, and feel free to forward to other relevant lists) The following survey examines controlled vocabulary use and challenges. The survey is for data contributors, curators, administrators, and/or repository developers. Completing the survey takes approximately 10 minutes (or less) to complete. To complete the survey, please click the following link: https://unc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3fU0xOeRbH6jntb. NOTE: If you are unable to click on the link directly, please type the entire link into the address or location field at the top of your web browser, and press the ENTER key on your keyboard to access the survey. The survey is supported by a US DataNet/DataONE supplement to explore controlled vocabulary use within and across a broad spectrum of data repositories, including but not limited to the U.S. DataNet initiatives. Sincerely, Chelcie Rowell ---------------------------------------------------------------- Chelcie Rowell Research Assistant, Metadata Research Center School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chelcie(a)live.unc.edu | 770.862.0750

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NISO/DCMI Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service
by DCMI Announce 07 May '13

07 May '13

******************Please excuse the cross postings****************** Join NISO/DCMI for our joint May webinar --Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service --Date: May 22, 2013 --Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 17:00:00) (World Clock: http://bit.ly/157qF2S) --Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo/ ========================================================================= ABOUT THE WEBINAR: VIVO is a semantic web application focused on discovering researchers and research publications in the life sciences. The service, which uses open-source software originally developed and implemented at Cornell University, operates by harvesting data about researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments from academic, administrative, professional, and funding sources. Using a built-in, editable ontology for describing things such as People, Courses, and Publications, data is transformed into a Semantic-Web-compliant form. VIVO provides automated and self-updating processes for improving data quality and authenticity. Starting with a classic Google-style search box, VIVO users can browse search results structured around people, research interests, courses, publications, and the like -- data that can be exposed for re-use by other systems in a machine-readable format. This webinar, held by a veteran at the Albert R. Mann Library Information Technology Services department at Cornell, where the VIVO project was born, presents the perspective of a software developer on the practicalities of building a high-quality Semantic-Web search service on existing data maintained in dozens of formats and software platforms at large, diverse institutions. The talk will highlight services that leverage the Semantic Web platform in innovative ways, e.g., for finding researchers based on the text content of a particular Web page and for visualizing networks of collaboration across institutions. SPEAKER: John Fereira, a senior programmer/analyst and technology strategist at Cornell University, is a contributing member of the VIVO project team. He also consults on issues related to information technology in higher education with an emphasis on open-source, modular, distributed software systems and is currently working on systems based on VIVO software for international Agricultural Information systems communities. Registration closes one hour before the webinar begins. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo/

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Infrageneric of Eragrostis
by Sami Rabei 20 Apr '13

20 Apr '13

Dear All Does any one has information about subdeneric of Eragrostis for the following species. Eragrostis cilianensis , Eragrostis minor , Eragrostis aegyptiaca , Eragrostis tenuifolia , Eragrostis tef , Eragrostis sarmentosa , Eragrostis barrelieri , Eragrostis pilosa Eragrostis aspera , Eragrostis ciliaris , Eragrostis japonica , Eragrostis lepida , Eragrostis tenella , Eragrostis tremula Thanks in advance sami ===== All the best. Sami Rabei http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GexZOhIAAAAJ Sincerely Yours ---------------------------------- With my Best Wishes Sami Hussein Rabei, Botany Department Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta , Post Box 34517 Damietta Egypt . Tel. Mobile: 002 0127 3601618 002 0101 7895350 Tel. Work: 002 057 2403981 Tel. Home: 002 057 2403108 Fax: 002 057 2403868

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USGS Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) launches with 110+ species occurrences (and growing)
by Simpson, Annie 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

TDWG Colleagues: The BISON project builds on GBIF and other data to provide a species mapping application using the Darwin Core standard. BISON launched today. This information is available online at: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3566&from=rss_home Project URL: http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov *Discovering Species** **- **Just a Click Away* *The USGS makes finding the locations (and more) of U.S. species a lot easier with the new digital resource – BISON* Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation or BISON is the only system of its kind; a unique, web-based Federal resource for finding species in the U. S. and territories. Its size is unprecedented, offering more than 100 million mapped records of nearly every living species nationwide and growing. And the vast majority of the records are specific locations, not just county or state records. What’s more, BISON provides an “Area of Interest” search capability in which users can query by drawing the exact boundary around their area of interest, down to and including towns, villages, or even much smaller areas such as parks. For instance, New York City’s Central Park has more than 100,000 “species occurrences” recorded in BISON, with each species noted in detail. Other BISON search options include querying the species by scientific or common name, year range, state, county, basis of record, or provider institution. As for the results, BISON displays them in both an interactive map and a list format. Users can click on each species occurrence point to retrieve more information, such as the institution providing the data, the collector, the date collected, and whether it was from a collection or an observation. Further, occurrences can be dynamically visualized with more than 50 other layers of environmental information in the system. Extensive web services are also available for direct connections to other systems. “The USGS is proud to announce this monumental resource”, said Kevin Gallagher, Associate Director, Core Science Systems, “and this is a testament to the power of combining the efforts of hundreds of thousands of professional and citizen scientists into a resource that uses Big Data and Open Data principles to deliver biodiversity information for sustaining the Nation’s environmental capital." “BISON is destined to become an indispensable toolkit to manage species occurrence data to support scientific, educational, and policy-making activities in the US”, Dr. Erick Mata, Executive Director of the Encyclopedia of Life explained. “This is highly complementary and synergistic with EOL's efforts to raise awareness and understanding of living nature.” "With BISON, the USGS takes a big step toward making biodiversity data held within Federal agencies easier to find and use”, added Mary Klein, President & CEO of NatureServe. “I am enthusiastic about future opportunities to work with USGS to increase collaboration among Federal, state and private data holders.” USGS Core Science Systems Mission Area, which developed the resource, expects that BISON users will be broad-based and include land managers, researchers, refuge managers, citizen scientists, agriculture professionals, fisheries managers, water resource managers, educators, and more. Land managers, for instance, might be looking for a piece of land to purchase for conservation—but first they want to know what species have been documented for that parcel. BISON will tell them after only a few mouse clicks. BISON serves as the U.S. Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and will form an integral part of EcoINFORMA, the information delivery strategy in "Sustaining Environmental Capital: Protecting Society and the Economy,"<http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast_sustain…>a recent report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST <http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pcast> ). "BISON responds directly to a key need PCAST pointed out in ‘Sustaining Environmental Capital’ -- to make Federal environmental data available, inter-operable, and usable to the public," said PCAST member Rosina Bierbaum, "We look forward to this 'biodiversity' hub being supplemented by complementary ecological data hubs by other Federal partners, to further the goal of helping communities across the Nation make increasingly wise planning and management decisions." BISON already includes millions of points from the Federal investment in biodiversity research. It is formally cooperating with other Federal agencies to greatly expand the delivery of federally funded biodiversity data for the greatest possible good. Hundreds of thousands of citizen and professional scientists have collected the data in BISON. Non-governmental organizations, state and local governments, universities, and many others are also participating in this enormous undertaking. The USGS has built and maintains BISON, which is hosted on the massive Federal computing infrastructure at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. To learn more, visit: http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov or contact the USGS BISON Team at BISON(a)usgs.gov The USGS Core Science Analytics and Synthesis program within Core Science Systems is home to BISON and focuses on innovative ways to manage and deliver scientific data and information. The program implements and promotes standards and best practices to enable efficient, data-driven science for decision-making that supports a rapid response to emerging natural resource issues. One of the ways this is accomplished is by developing national data products that increase our understanding of the Earth’s natural systems. **** http://www.usgs.gov/**** *Annie Simpson Eco-Science Synthesis, Core Science Systems U.S. Geological Survey, MS 302 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, Virginia 20192 ================= asimpson(a)usgs.gov 703.648.4281 desk*

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NISO/DCMI webinar: Deployment of RDA Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data
by DCMI Announce 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

******************Please excuse the cross postings****************** Join NISO/DCMI for our joint April webinar --Webinar: Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data --Date: April 24, 2013 --Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 17:00:00) (World Clock: http://bit.ly/XySJt0) --Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/ ========================================================================= ABOUT THE WEBINAR: A seminar at the British Library in April 2012 marked the fifth anniversary of a 2007 meeting at which representatives of the Dublin Core, Semantic Web, and RDA communities jointly recommended that the then-draft cataloging standard RDA be provided in the form of vocabularies and application profiles usable for Linked Data. One year after this anniversary meeting and one year closer to the general deployment of RDA in libraries, this webinar will take stock of progress towards developing application profiles based on RDA and discuss the practicalities of exposing RDA-based data in the Linked Data cloud. SPEAKER: Alan Danskin, Metadata Standards Manager at The British Library, where he has worked in various capacities since 1987, including implementation of MARC 21. He currently represents the library on the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (Resource Description and Access) for which he until recently served as chair. He has served as chair of the Cataloguing & Indexing Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and is a member of the Book Industry Communication Bibliographic Standards Group. Registration closes one hour before the webinar begins. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/

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CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED to 5 APRIL 2013 for DC-2013 in Lisbon
by DCMI Announce 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

**** Excuse the cross-posting **** Dear Colleagues: The submission deadline has been EXTENDED TO 5 APRIL 2013 for papers, project reports, and posters for DC-2013 in Lisbon. ====================================================== Call for Papers: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013/cfp Conference Website: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013 Conference Dates: 2-6 September 2013 ====================================================== The DC-2013 conference theme is "Linking to the Future": "DC-2013 will explore questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. Thus, the maintenance and management of metadata is essential to address the long term availability of information of legal, cultural and economic value. On the web, data -- and especially descriptive vocabularies -- can change or vanish from one moment to the next. Nonetheless, the web increasingly forms the ecosystem for our vocabularies and our data. DC-2013 will bring together in Lisbon the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing a sustainable metadata ecosystem." Beyond the conference theme, DCMI welcomes submissions of papers, project reports and posters addressing the broad array of topics impacting metadata research, design, and practice in domain and cross-domain contexts. Such contexts include, but are not limited to, corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, scientific fields, recordkeeping, preservation, curation, institutional repositories, and publishing. ====================================================== DC-2013 in Lisbon will be collocated, and run simultaneously with, iPRES-2013 offering delegates the opportunity to attend sessions of both conferences and to build bridges between these synergistic groups. "Linking to the Future" demands attention to preservation and linkages to the past. ====================================================== Program Committee Chairs: Kai Eckert Research Group Data and Web Science, University of Mannheim, Germany Muriel Foulonneau Knowledge Intensive Systems and Services, Tudor Research Centre, Luxembourg

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Call for Comments: Mapping from Dublin Core to W3C PROV ontology
by DCMI Announce 17 Mar '13

17 Mar '13

The DCMI Metadata Provenance Task Group [1] is collaborating with the W3C Provenance Working Group [2] on a mapping from Dublin Core terms to the PROV provenance ontology [3], currently a W3C Proposed Recommendation. More precisely, the document describes a partial mapping from DCMI Metadata Terms [4] to the PROV-O OWL2 ontology [5] -- a set of classes and properties usable for representing and interchanging information about provenance. Numerous terms in the DCMI vocabulary provide information about the provenance of a resource. Translating these terms into PROV relates this information explicitly to the W3C provenance model. The mapping is currently a W3C Working Draft. The final state of the document will be that of a W3C Note, to be published as part of a suite of documents in support of a W3C Recommendation for provenance interchange [6]. DCMI would like to point to the W3C Note as a DCMI Recommended Resource and therefore encourages the Dublin Core community to provide feedback and take part in the finalization of the mapping. The deadline for all comments is 7 April 2013. We recommend that comments be provided directly to the public W3C list for comments: public-prov-comments(a)w3.org [7], ideally with a Cc: to DCMI's dc-provenance list [8]. Comments sent only to the dc-provenance list will be summarized on the W3C list and addressed, and discussions on the W3C list will be summarized back on the dc-provenance list when appropriate. Stuart Sutton, Managing Director, DCMI [1] http://dublincore.org/groups/provenance/ [2] http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Main_Page [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-dc-20130312/ [4] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ [6] http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/ [7] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-prov-comments/ [8] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=dc-provenance

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Final Notice: DC-2013 Call for Submissions (29 March 2013)
by DCMI Announce 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

**** Excuse the cross-posting **** Dear Colleagues: This is a final reminder that the deadline to submit your paper, project report, or poster for DC-2013 in Lisbon in rapidly approaching -- 29 March 2013. ====================================================== Call for Papers: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013/cfp Conference Website: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013 Conference Dates: 2-6 September 2013 ====================================================== The DC-2013 conference theme is "Linking to the Future": "DC-2013 will explore questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. Thus, the maintenance and management of metadata is essential to address the long term availability of information of legal, cultural and economic value. On the web, data -- and especially descriptive vocabularies -- can change or vanish from one moment to the next. Nonetheless, the web increasingly forms the ecosystem for our vocabularies and our data. DC-2013 will bring together in Lisbon the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing a sustainable metadata ecosystem." Beyond the conference theme, DCMI welcomes submissions of papers, project reports and posters addressing the broad array of topics impacting metadata research, design, and practice in domain and cross-domain contexts. Such contexts include, but are not limited to, corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, scientific fields, recordkeeping, preservation, curation, institutional repositories, and publishing. ====================================================== DC-2013 in Lisbon will be collocated, and run simultaneously with, iPRES-2013 offering delegates the opportunity to attend sessions of both conferences and to build bridges between these synergistic groups. "Linking to the Future" demands attention to preservation and linkages to the past. ====================================================== Program Committee Chairs: Kai Eckert Research Group Data and Web Science, University of Mannheim, Germany Muriel Foulonneau Knowledge Intensive Systems and Services, Tudor Research Centre, Luxembourg

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2nd Announcement: DC-2013 call for participation
by DCMI Announce 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

*** Please excuse the cross-posting *** "LINKING TO THE FUTURE" International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2-6 September 2013, Lisbon, Portugal ============================================= 2nd ANNOUNCEMENT: DC-2013 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================================= DC-2013 will explore questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. Thus, the maintenance and management of metadata is essential to address the long term availability of information of legal, cultural and economic value. On the web, data—and especially descriptive vocabularies—can change or vanish from one moment to the next. Nonetheless, the web increasingly forms the ecosystem for our vocabularies and our data. DC-2013 will bring together in Lisbon the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing a sustainable metadata ecosystem. DC-2013 will be collocated and run simultaneous with iPRES 2013 providing a rich environment for synergistic exploration of issues common to both communities. ============================================= IMPORTANT DEADLINES & DATES: --SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 29 March 2013 --AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: 7 June 2013 --FINAL COPY: 5 July 2013 --------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT URLS: --ONLINE CFP: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013/cfp --CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2013 --SUBMISSION URL: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2013/author/submit?requ… --ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2013/about/organizingTe… ============================================= Beyond the conference theme, papers, reports, and poster submissions are welcome on a wide range of metadata topics, such as: -- Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices -- Metadata quality (methods, tools, and practices) -- Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS) -- Application profiles -- Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices) -- Metadata interoperability across domains, languages, time, structures, and scales. -- Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, curation, institutional repositories, publishing) -- Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, and scientific fields) -- Bibliographic standards (e.g., RDA, FRBR, subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies -- Accessibility metadata -- Metadata for scientific data, e-Science and grid applications -- Social tagging and user participation in building metadata -- Usage data (paradata/attention metadata) -- Knowledge Organization Systems (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri) and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS) -- Ontology design and development -- Integration of metadata and ontologies -- Search engines and metadata -- Linked data and the Semantic Web (metadata and applications) -- Vocabulary registries and registry services --------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS --All submissions must be in English. --All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the International Program Committee. --Unless previously arranged, accepted papers, project reports and posters must be presented in Lisbon by at least one of their authors. Submissions for Asynchronous Participation: With prior arrangement, a few exceptional papers, project reports and extended poster abstracts will be accepted for asynchronous presentation by their authors. Submissions accepted for asynchronous presentation must follow both the general author guidelines for submission as well as additional instructions located at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/remote. --------------------------------------------- PUBLICATION -- Accepted papers, project reports and poster abstracts will be published in the permanent online conference proceedings and in DCMI Publications ( http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/) -- Special session and community workshop session abstracts will be published in the online conference proceedings. -- Papers, research reports and poster abstracts must conform to the appropriate formatting template available through the DCMI Peer Review System. -- Submitting authors in all categories must provide basic information regarding current professional positions and affiliations as a condition of acceptance and publication. --------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION CATEGORIES FULL PAPERS (8-10 pages; Peer reviewed): Full papers either describe innovative 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: (1) Originality of the approach to the topic and potential for implementation (2) Quality of the contribution to the implementation community (3) Significance of the results presented (4) Clarity of presentation PROJECT REPORTS (4-5 pages; Peer reviewed): Project reports describe a specific model, application, or activity in a concise presentation. Project reports will be assessed using the following criteria: (1) Conciseness and completeness of technical description (2) Usability of the technical description by other potential implementers (3) Clarity of presentation POSTERS (1-2 pages; Peer reviewed): Posters are for the presentation of projects or research under development or late-breaking results. Poster submission should consist of a one-two page extended abstract. Posters will be assessed using the following criteria: (1) Concise statement of research or project goals and milestones (2) Significance of the research or project (3) Framing of key barriers and future research (4) Statement of results and accomplishments (5) Clarity of presentation One or more sessions will be scheduled for display and discussion of posters at the conference venue. Instructions on the preparation of the display poster can be found at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/posterAut… . SPECIAL & PANEL SESSIONS: Special and panel sessions are organized by experts in a specific area of metadata. Each special session serves as a focused exchange of the latest research and/or best practice in the area. A proposal for a special session consists of a single document of approximately 800-1,200 words in length containing: --Session title --35-50 word abstract for use in promoting the session --Brief description of the scope and motivation for the session --Names and brief CVs of session facilitators, presenters, or panelists --Brief CVs of the organizers DCMI COMMUNITY & TASK GROUP WORKSHOP SESSIONS: DCMI Community Workshop & Task Group Sessions are intended to: (1) advance the specific work of DCMI entities as defined at http://dublincore.org/groups/#communities; and (2) to set the work agenda for the Community or Task Group for the coming year. Note: Communities wanting to present a special session or a panel in the area of the Community's interest should submit a proposal under Special & Panel Sessions above. --------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Kai Eckert --Research Group Data and Web Science, University of Mannheim, Germany Muriel Foulonneau --Knowledge Intensive Systems and Services, Tudor Research Centre, Luxembourg ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2013/about/organizingTe…

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