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NISO/DCMI Joint Webinar -- Karen Coyle: "Taking Library Data From Here to There"
by DCMI Announce 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

*** Please excuse the cross-posting *** =============================================================== NISO/DCMI Joint Webinar on February 22: Taking Library Data From Here to There DATE: February 22, 2012 TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern (18:00-19:30 UTC) INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/library_data/ =============================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR Libraries have been creating metadata for resources for well over a century. The good news is that library metadata is rules-based and that the library cataloging community has built up a wealth of knowledge about publications, their qualities, and the users who seek them. The bad news is that library practices were fixed long before computers would be used to store and retrieve the data. Library cataloging practice continues to have elements of the era of printed catalogs and alphabetized cards, and needs to modernize to take advantage of new information technologies. This metadata, however, exists today in tens of thousands of databases and there is a large sigh heard around the world whenever a librarian considers the need to make this massive change. As with all large problems, this one becomes more tractable when broken into smaller pieces. Karen Coyle will present her "five stars of library data," an analysis of the changes needed and some steps that libraries can begin to take immediately. She will also discuss the "open world" view of the linked data movement and how this view can increase the visibility of libraries in the global information space. This webinar will give an introduction to the types of changes that are needed as well as the value that can be realized in library services. Attendees will learn of some preparatory steps have already been taken, which should confirm that libraries have indeed begun the journey "From Here to There." TOPICS AND SPEAKERS Karen Coyle is a librarian specializing in metadata development, with a particular interest in the future of bibliographic control. She recently served on the W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data, and has written three Library Technology Reports on the Semantic Web and library data. Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, was recently co-chair of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and currently co-chairs a W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data. REGISTRATION Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on February 22, 2012. Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI members and students. Can’t make it on the webinar date/time? You can still register and obtain access to the recorded archive for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/library_data/ Register for all four NISO/DCMI webinars and get one free: https://www.regonline.com/nisodcmiwebinarbuythreegetonefree_1052378

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CfP (2nd notice): DC-2012 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
by DCMI Announce 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

*** Please excuse the cross-posting *** ============================================= DC-2012 Call for Participation (2nd Notice) ============================================= International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: "Metadata for Meeting Global Challenges" 3-7 September 2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia DC-2012 will explore the global, national and regional roles of metadata in addressing global challenges such as food security, the digital divide, and sustainable development. Metadata plays a significant role globally in information systems shaping how we know, monitor and change social and governmental systems affecting everything from the environment, human rights and justice to education and peace. DC-2012 will bring together in Kuching the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing languages of description to meet these global challenges. DC-2012 is part of Knowledge Technology Week 2012 in Malaysia. For more information, see http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/ktw2012. Collocated events include: --DC-2012 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications --PRICAI 2012 The 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence --PRIMA 2012 The 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems --Artificial Intelligence Workshops (AIW2012) ---------------------------------- DEADLINES & IMPORTANT DATES: --SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 23 March 2012 --AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: 25 May 2012 --FINAL COPY: 29 June 2012 ---------------------------------- IMPORTANT URLS: --SUBMISSION URL: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2012/author/submit?requ… --ONLINE CFP: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2012/schedConf/cfp --CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2012 --ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2012/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 for papers, reports, extended poster abstracts, community workshop and special sessions must do so through the DCMI Peer Review System at http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/index.php/pubs/. Author registration with the peer review system and instructions for the submission process appear under the "Information for Authors" link. --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 Kuching 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://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2012/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. -- Unless previously arranged, accepted papers, project reports and posters must be presented at The Hague by at least one of their authors. -- 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 --Schubert Foo, Professor and Associate Dean, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore --Hans Overbeek, Ministry of Internal Affairs, The Hague, Netherlands

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New Web Interface for Herbarium Databases at Florida State Univ. and Tall Timbers Research Station
by amast＠bio.fsu.edu 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

It is our pleasure to announce a new interface for the specimen databases of Florida State University's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium and Tall Timbers Research Station's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium (http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu/) Both herbaria are named for Bob Godfrey (1911-2000), a respected expert on the flora of the southeastern U.S. The website serves data and images for ca. 60,000 of FSU's ca. 205,000 specimens and nearly all (10,500) of Tall Timbers' specimens. These specimens document diversity in the East Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion, one of North America's biotic hotspots, as well as elsewhere (especially the Neotropics). The new functionality allows new types of searches and results, including the following possibilities: (1) provide all specimens that were flowering in June in Leon County, Florida, irrespective of year, (2) map all specimens of invasive species collected in the past 10 years in Florida, and (3) provide only the desired set of fields about the specimens of interest in a tab-delimited file that can be opened in Excel or other spreadsheet programs. The search interface is also more convenient, with auto-fill of several fields (e.g., common name). The popular display of results as a page of thumbnails is now one of four available result formats. Florida State University gratefully acknowledges funding from the National Science Foundation (Awards 0956372 and 0646222), the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to support the digitization of its specimens and creation of the website. Tall Timbers Research Station gratefully acknowledges funding from the National Science Foundation (Award 0956343) to support the digitization of its specimens. We will be grateful for feedback on the new interface. Please send comments to amast(a)bio.fsu.edu. With best regards, Austin Mast, Kevin Robertson, Alex Stuy, and Gil Nelson ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Call for Participation: (DC-2012) International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
by DCMI Announce 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

=============================== DC-2012 Call for Participation =============================== International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: "Metadata for Meeting Global Challenges" 3-7 September 2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Conference Website: http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2012 ---------------------------------- DEADLINES & IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: 23 March 2012 Author Notification: 25 May 2012 Final Copy: 29 June 2012 ---------------------------------- DC-2012 will explore the global, national and regional roles of metadata in addressing global challenges such as food security, the digital divide, and sustainable development. Metadata plays a significant role globally in information systems shaping how we know, monitor and change social and governmental systems affecting everything from the environment, human rights and justice to education and peace. DC-2012 will bring together in Kuching the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing languages of description to meet these global challenges. 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 for papers, reports, extended poster abstracts, community workshop and special sessions must do so through the DCMI Peer Review System at http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/index.php/pubs/. Author registration with the peer review system and instructions for the submission process appear under the "Information for Authors" link. --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 Kuching 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://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2012/remote. ---------------------------------- START SUBMISSION: Register/Login at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2012/author/submit?requ… ---------------------------------- PUBLICATION -- Accepted papers, project reports and poster abstracts will be published in the official Conference Proceedings at http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs. -- Special session and community workshop session abstracts will be published in the online conference program. -- Papers, research reports and poster abstracts must conform to the appropriate formatting template available through the DCMI Peer Review System. -- Unless previously arranged, accepted papers, project reports and posters must be presented at The Hague by at least one of their authors. -- 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 --Schubert Foo Professor and Associate Dean, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore --Hans Overbeek Stichting ICTU, The Hague, Netherlands

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Two UK meetings of interest in December 2011
by Bob Morris 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

Jonathan Rees, of Creative Commons, passes the announcment below on. Note that there are other things co-located in Bristol at the time of this workshop, associated with the 7th International Digital Curation Conference, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/ and in London that week is also the 4th International SWAT4LS Workshop on Semantic Web Application and Tools for the Life Sciences. http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/london2011/ ============== Domain names and persistence workshop, Bristol UK, 8 Dec 2011 Is there a chance of establishing "persistent identifiers" with http: prefix? How? Do we already have them? Are they impossible? Come to Bristol and help us figure this out. Sponsored by W3C TAG and the Digital Curation Center. http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/idcc_workshop.html http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/workshops ============ --Bob -- Robert A. Morris Emeritus Professor of Computer Science UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 IT Staff Filtered Push Project Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University email: morris.bob(a)gmail.com web: http://efg.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/mw/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1) 857 222 7992 (mobile)

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Vacancy in image pattern recognition
by Hannu Saarenmaa 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Digitarium announces a vacancy for a computer scientist. The task at hand is to investigate automatic recognition of label data attached to natural history collection specimens. http://digitarium.fi/en/content/system-analyst-image-pattern-recognition Digitarium is the digitisation centre of the Finnish Museum of Natural History and the University of Eastern Finland, located in Joensuu. http://g.co/maps/cp6sy I will be happy to answer any queries. Hannu Saarenmaa hannu.saarenmaa(a)uef.fi www.digitarium.fi

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Funeral arrangements for Frank Bisby
by Chuck Miller 05 Nov '11

05 Nov '11

Dear TDWGers, I just received this information regarding the funeral arrangements for Frank. It will be next Wednesday, November 9 in Reading. Sadly, Chuck From: team-bounces(a)sp2000.org [team-bounces(a)sp2000.org] on behalf of Rebecca Jane Mann [r.j.mann(a)reading.ac.uk] Sent: 03 November 2011 16:27 To: team(a)sp2000.org Subject: [CoL Global Team] Funeral arrangements for Frank Dear All, Funeral arrangements for Frank Bisby have now been made. The funeral will be a civil (not religious) occasion and will be held on Wednesday 9 November at 14.30 at Reading Crematorium, 55 All Hallows Road, Reading RG4 5LP. Frank's partner, Vicki, has advised that Frank does not want Flowers, just a donation to the Woodland Trust (www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/support-us/donate/Pages/how-to-give.aspx<ht tp://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/support-us/donate/Pages/how-to-give.asp x <http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/support-us/donate/Pages/how-to-give. aspx%3chttp:/www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/support-us/donate/Pages/how-to- give.aspx> >). I appreciate that it is not a lot of notice and that many of you are overseas based and would be unable to come. But if you can, it would be useful if you could let me know if you are planning to attend. I am also compiling a book of condolences if you have any messages you would like passed to Frank's family. Kind Regards, Becky Mann Miss Rebecca Mann Secretary to the Board of Directors of Species 2000 Tel: +44 (0) 118 378 6466 E-mail: r.j.mann(a)reading.ac.uk<mailto:r.j.mann@reading.ac.uk <mailto:r.j.mann@reading.ac.uk%3cmailto:r.j.mann@reading.ac.uk> >

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Nominations for the new TDWG Executive Committee
by Mergen Patricia 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

*Sorry for cross postings* Dear TDWG community The Executive Committee of TDWG will have to be elected at the General meeting 2011 in New Orleans. We are accepting nominations from now until Saturday the 15th of October. Before nominating someone, make sure she or he is aware of the nomination and is willing to take over the activity should she/he be elected. All positions (including co-opted members) on the Executive http://www.tdwg.org/about-tdwg/executive/ must be voted upon each year, so are open to nomination. Names, affiliation and contact details of the nominated individuals, plus a summary of their qualifications and their motivations to be part of the TDWG Executive should be sent no later than the 15th of October 2 PM (New Orleans time) to secretary(a)TDWG.org <http://secretary@tdwg.org/> Anyone may nominate potential members of the Executive, but only those who have paid their 2011 membership dues (or paid full registration fees) may vote. Thanks you in advance for your collaboration Patricia Mergen General Secretary of TDWG on behalf of the Executive Committee"

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NISO/DCMI Webinar: "The RDA Vocabularies: Implementation, Extension, and Mapping"
by DCMI Announce 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

NISO/DCMI Webinar: "The RDA Vocabularies: Implementation, Extension, and Mapping" ***Please excuse cross-posting*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISO/DCMI Webinar: "The RDA Vocabularies: Implementation, Extension, and Mapping" DATE: 16 November 2011 TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT (17:00-19:30 UTC) REGISTRATION: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/dcmi/rda -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THE WEBINAR During a meeting at the British Library in May 2007 between the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA and DCMI, important recommendations were forged for the development of an element vocabulary, application profile, and value vocabularies [1], based on the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, then in final draft. A DCMI/RDA Task Group [2] has completed much of the work, and described their process and decisions in a recent issue of D-Lib Magazine [3]. A final, pre-publication technical review of this work is underway, prior to adoption by early implementers. This webinar will provide an up-to-the-minute update on the review process, as well as progress on the RDA-based application profiles. The webinar will discuss practical implementation issues raised by early implementers and summarize issues surfaced in virtual and face-to-face venues where the vocabularies and application profiles have been discussed. [1] http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/meeting.html [2] http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/ [3] http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.html SPEAKERS: Diane Hillmann is Vocabulary Management Officer for DCMI and a partner in the consulting firm Metadata Management Associates. She is co-chair (with Gordon Dunsire) of the DCMI/RDA Task Group and is the DCMI Liaison to the ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and access, the US body providing feedback on RDA Development. Thomas Baker, DCMI Chief Information Officer (Communications, Research and Development), was recently co-chair of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and a W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data (report pending). REGISTRATION: For registration and webinar technical information, see http://www.niso.org/news/events/2011/dcmi/rda. Registration closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on 16 November 2011. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Invitation to DC-2011 pre-conference tutorials
by DCMI Announce 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

***Please excuse cross-posting*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DC-2011 Pre-conference Tutorials TUTORIAL ABSTRACTS: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/tutorials… DATE: 21 September 2011 TIME: 9:00 - 17:00 PLACE: National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague REGISTRATION: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registrat… [Registration is available for this special day-long session only or for the full conference] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We are writing to invite you to participate in Dublin Core tutorials planned for DC-2011 at The Hague. Registration for the pre-conference includes all four tutorials. The topics of the tutorials range from an introduction to Dublin Core through migration of an XML/HTML encoded Dublin Core metadata application to a linked data version. The following four tutorials are programmed: TUTORIAL TITLE: An Introduction to Dublin Core PRESENTER: Stephanie Taylor ABSTRACT: This tutorial will provide a basic introduction to the Dublin Core (DC) metadata set, starting with a brief overview of how and why DC began and how it has developed to the present day. Simple DC and Qualified DC will be explained, with practical examples of real-life usage to illustrate the application of DC in different working environments. The tutorial will have a 'hands on' approach, giving participants an opportunity to explore the elements through group work and to use both Simple and Qualified DC to describe objects. TUTORIAL TITLE: Even More Dublin Core PRESENTER: Emma Tonkin ABSTRACT: Dublin Core, like many things in life, is many things to many people. This tutorial starts by taking a quick tour through the conceptual landscape of the DCMI. We then move on to practical exploration, demonstrating the role of Dublin Core as a helpful Swiss Army knife in a well-stocked metadata toolbox. Using the vocabularies, schemas, concepts and processes behind Dublin Core—such as the Singapore Framework, we work through practical examples of: describing a set of resources; developing an application profile for a given purpose; building metadata records on the basis of a newly constructed application profile; and marking up web-based data with microformats. Finally, the tutorial takes a look at how Dublin Core fits in with the world of Linked Data. TUTORIAL TITLE: SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) PRESENTER: Antoine Isaac ABSTRACT: SKOS is a data model to represent and network knowledge organization systems (thesauri, classification systems, etc) in RDF. SKOS is meant to be as easy of use as possible, fitting existing practices while keeping general enough to fit a high number of use cases and KOS configurations. In this tutorial, an introduction to the various features of SKOS will be given, illustrating how they can be used to represent existing KOS data. The tutorial will present how the vision of leveraging existing KOS on the web of data is being adopted in a number of projects, in the Cultural Heritage sector and beyond. Available tooling and methods for creating and publishing SKOS as well as porting legacy KOS data to SKOS will also be discussed. TUTORIAL TITLE: From Dublin Core to Linked Data PRESENTER: Paul Hermans ABSTRACT: In this tutorial we will learn in a concrete way how to migrate an XML/HTML encoded Dublin Core metadata application to a linked data version hereof. We cover all the needed steps to: define the identifiers (URI's) of the resources choose the right models, vocabularies generate links to different datasets convert to the needed representations (RDF/XML, turtle, HTML) and publish the data as dereferenceable linked data. We will also address also some FAQ's: reusing vocabularies or building your own, SKOS (concepts) or OWL (classes), how to model temporal constraints, how to apply closed world constraints. In closing, we give an overview of the tools and technologies which can be used. We very much hope some or all of you may be able to attend what we expect to be a very useful event. Cordially, Muriel Foulonneau, Henri Tudor Research Centre Seth van Hooland, Université Libre de Bruxelles

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