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Second Call for DC-2017 Participation, Washington, D.C., October 26-29
by DCMI Announce 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

*==========Please excuse the cross-posting==========* 2nd Call for DC-2017 Participation *Theme: Advancing Metadata Practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability* The deadline for submission is only one month away 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 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 *The 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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NKOS Workshop at DC-2017: Call for Participation
by DCMI Announce 24 Apr '17

24 Apr '17

*==========Please excuse the cross-posting==========* *NKOS Workshop at DC-2017: Call for Participation* The 11th U.S. *Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop* will take place on Saturday, October 28 as part of DC-2017 <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/> in Crystal City, VA (Washington, D.C.). Proposals are invited for *Presentations* and *Demos*. *Important Dates:* *Submission deadline:* Friday, June 30, 2017 *Notification of acceptance:* Tuesday, August 15, 2017 *Submission:* For more information and to submit a proposal, please visit the NKOS Call for Participation at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/nkosCall on the DC-2017 website. *Workshop Themes:* *Research Data Management (RDM).* NKOS welcomes presentations that focus on the knowledge organization issues related to controlled vocabularies, name authority, taxonomy, and other KOS to enable access to collections, e.g., in order to be able to replicate scientific results. What are the KOS requirements related to data storage and preservation; and communication, coordination and collaboration to support librarian and researcher needs? *Aggregation.* The objective of linked open data is to provide distributed access to vocabularies and content that uses vocabularies. Actually using vocabularies to aggregate distributed content is a special case that reconstructs collections that are now dispersed. Examples include Renaissance artist sketchbooks, natural history collections from enlightenment humanists, etc. *Metadata Enrichment.* This theme relates to reusing existing metadata sources and adding additional controlled vocabularies, name authority, taxonomy, and other KOS to create new resources. E.g., building a new data resource based on selecting content from the Code of Federal Regulations and enriching the collection by adding new vocabularies. *Authority Control.* How does authority control work in a global linked data community? What agencies should and are willing to be responsible for the names of public agencies, companies, subsidiaries, brands and trademarks, and artists who constitute a national group based on birth place and/or area of activity. *Metrics and Quality.* How are controlled vocabularies, name authority, taxonomy and other KOS quantified and qualified? What are the appropriate dimensions of use and validation. Does Google Analytics have a role? Are there other methods and practical applications? *Life Cycle Management.* What is the common lifecycle of terms within controlled vocabularies, name authority, taxonomy and other KOS? What are the downstream impacts and best practices for handling of vocabulary changes? *NKOS Program Committee:* *Joseph Busch,* Taxonomy Strategies *Jane Greenberg,* Drexel University *Diane Hillman,* Metadata Management Associates *Gail Hodge,* Information International Associates *Kathryn La Barre,* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne *Jian Qin,* Syracuse University *Dagobert Soergel,* University at Buffalo *Joseph Tennis,* University of Washington *Diane Vizine-Goetz,* OCLC Research *Marcia Zeng,* Kent State University

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Webinar: Nailing Jello to a Wall: Metrics, Frameworks, & Existing Work for Metadata Assessment
by DCMI Announce 15 Apr '17

15 Apr '17

********PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******** *Nailing Jello to a Wall: Metrics, Frameworks, & Existing Work for Metadata Assessment* *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *with **Christina Harlow**, Cornell University Library* *===================================================* *:: Presenter:* Christina Harlow *:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/Harlow-2017) *:: Date: *Thursday, 27 April 2017 *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017harlow *===================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* With the increasing number of repositories, standards and resources we manage for digital libraries, there is a growing need to assess, validate and analyze our metadata - beyond our traditional approaches such as writing XSD or generating CSVs for manual review. Being able to further analyze and determine measures of metadata quality helps us better manage our data and data-driven development, particularly with the shift to Linked Open Data leading many institutions to large-scale migrations. Yet, the semantically-rich metadata desired by many Cultural Heritage Institutions, and the granular expectations of some of our data models, makes performing assessment, much less going on to determine quality or performing validation, that much trickier. How do we handle analysis of the rich understandings we have built into our Cultural Heritage Institutions' metadata and enable ourselves to perform this analysis with the systems and resources we have? This webinar sets up this question and proposes some guidelines, best practices, tools and workflows around the evaluation of metadata used by and for digital libraries and Cultural Heritage Institution repositories. What metrics have other researchers or practitioners applied to measure their definition of quality? How do these metrics or definitions for quality compare across examples – from the large and aggregation-focused, like Europeana, to the relatively small and project-focused, like Cornell University Library's own SharedShelf instance? Do any metadata assessment frameworks exist, and how do they compare to the proposed approaches in core literature in this area, such as Thomas Bruce and Diane Hillmann's 2004 article, "The Continuum of Metadata Quality"? The Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group (or DLF AIG) has a Metadata Working Group that has been attempting to build a framework that can be used broadly for digital repository metadata assessment - the state of this work, and the issues it has raised, will be discussed in this webinar as well. Finally, how does one begin to approach this metadata assessment – what tools, applications, or efforts for performing assessment exist for common digital repository applications or data publication mechanisms? This webinar hopes to provide some solutions to these questions within existing literature, work, and examples of metadata assessment happening 'on the ground'. The goal is for webinar participants to walk away prepared to handle their own metadata assessment needs by using the existing work outlined and being better aware of the open questions in this domain. *ABOUT THE PRESENTER:* *Christina Harlow* works on metadata operations for the Cornell University Library. This work involves building out data infrastructure, ETL (extract transform load) functions, and Linked Open Data usage in service of distributed metadata management for Cornell's library repositories and systems.

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by Christy Semmens 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

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CERF 2017 data session
by Anne Thessen 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

Hello I wanted to let the TDWG folk know about a data-oriented session I'm leading at the upcoming CERF conference (http://www.erf.org/cerf-2017-biennial-conference) You can learn more about the session here https://cerf.confex.com/cerf/2017/webprogrampreliminary/Session1284.html. Anyone who is working on coastal or estuarine related data sets may want to participate. I'm planning to submit an abstract on some of the machine learning work I've been doing. Please feel free to pass this message around to anyone who might be interested. You can submit your abstract and register here http://www.erf.org/cerf-2017-biennial-conference Thanks! -- Anne E. Thessen, Ph.D. The Data Detektiv, Owner and Founder Ronin Institute, Research Scholar 443.225.9185

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3 yr Researcher / PhD position at Senckenberg/BiK-F - automated trait and taxon recognition from plant photos and herbarium scans
by Marco Schmidt 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Dear TDWG list subscribers, we have an interesting position to be filled at Senckenberg/BiK-F in Frankfurt, Germany: http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/stellenausschreibungen/11-17008_dee… The succesful candidate will be working on automated trait and taxon recognition from plant photos and herbarium scans using deep learning approaches. Deadline for applications is March 30, 2017. Best regards, Marco GoogleScholar ( http://goo.gl/htDZUL ) ResearchGate ( http://goo.gl/qZ6S0I ) AfricanPlants ( http://goo.gl/27KJgv ) WestAfricanVegetation ( http://goo.gl/pDSfC6 ) Dr. Marco Schmidt Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) Senckenberganlage 25 60325 Frankfurt am Main Germany +49 69 7542 1859 (Data & Modelling Centre) +49 69 97075 1615 (Botany Dept.) Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung Rechtsfähiger Verein gemäß § 22 BGB Senckenberganlage 25 60325 Frankfurt Direktorium: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Mosbrugger, Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch, Hon. Prof. Dr. h. c. (STU) Rolf Pfrengle, Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Prof. Dr. Uwe Fritz, PD Dr. Ingrid Kröncke; Präsidentin: Dr. h.c. Beate Heraeus; Aufsichtsbehörde: Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt am Main (Ordnungsamt)

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1st Darwin Core Hour - 7 February 2017 @ 1 PM EST, 6 PM UTC
by Deborah Paul 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Hello Everyone, You're invited! To: Darwin Core Hour 7 February 2017 @ 1 PM EST, 6 PM UTC Details: https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-webinar-series Got questions? Get answers! Provide answers! For the best Darwin Core Hour experience, add your input here Darwin Core Hour Form https://goo.gl/forms/YCaJ8zjTaW3n6BKr1 Chapter Abstract In this first webinar in the Darwin Core Hour series, the basics of how Darwin Core functions in the biodiversity community as a dynamic standard will be covered. Topics will include what the standard consists of, how to use it, how it can be changed, sources of information, and where to go for help. Presenter: John Wieczorek Your input: 1) improves Darwin Core documentation (examples, definitions) 2) helps those in the Standards community address gaps and implementation of the standard terms 3) provides a forum for everyone to learn about each others data mapping, data sharing, software needs, standards issues and insights. 4) facilitates higher data quality! Go here for details: https://www.idigbio.org/content/darwin-core-hour-webinar-series In anticipation of our 1st Darwin Core (Happy) Hour, Debbie Paul, et al Webinar series brought to you by the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (DMI). We welcome input for this series from everyone worldwide. We plan to make this happen 1x month. We use Adobe Connect for our webinars. See https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing for hints on best experience (hint: use headsets!) -- -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Training Specialist iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member, SPNHC Liaison, SYNTHESYS3 Representative Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306 850-644-6366

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DCMI Webinar: Data on the Web Best Practices: Challenges and Benefits
by DCMI Announce 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

*******PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******* *Data on the Web Best Practices: Challenges and Benefits* *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *===========================================================* *:: Presenters:* Bernadette Farias Lóscio, Newton Calegari, Caroline Burle dos Santos Guimarães *:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/20170406-en) *:: Date:* Thursday, 6 April 2017 *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017DataBP *===========================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* There is a growing interest in the publication and consumption of data on the Web. Government and non-governmental organizations already provide a variety of data on the Web, some open, others with access restrictions, covering a variety of domains such as education, economics, e-commerce and scientific data. Developers, journalists, and others manipulate this data to create visualizations and perform data analysis. Experience in this area reveals that a number of important issues need to be addressed in order to meet the requirements of both publishers and data consumers. In this webinar we will discuss the key challenges faced by publishers and data consumers when sharing data on the Web. We will also introduce the W3C Best Practices set (https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/)to address these challenges. Finally, we will discuss the benefits of engaging data publishers in the use of Best Practices, as well as improving the way data sets are made available on the Web. *ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:* *Bernadette Farias Lóscio* holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She worked as an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Ceará and did postdoctoral studies at the University of Manchester. Since 2010, she has been an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. In recent years, she has provided consulting services to W3C Brazil and to the City Hall of Recife in projects in the Open Data area. It is one of the publishers of Data on the Web Best Practices, a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which offers good practices related to the publication and use of data on the Web. Its main areas of interest are: Web Data, Data Open, Semantic Web, Data Integration, Web of Things and Big Data. *Caroline Burle dos Santos Guimarães* is responsible for the Institutional Relations of the Center for Studies on Web Technologies (Ceweb.br) and W3C Brasil. He is a specialist in Negotiation for the Getúlio Vargas Foundation and a Master in International Relations from San Tiago Dantas. He is a member of the Center for Studies and International Analysis and Fellow of the OAS Open Government Program in the Americas. It is one of the publishers of the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices document. Research on open government, international relations and foreign policy, with experience in the work of subnational governments in the area of web, open data and Internet governance. *Newton Calegari* holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's Degree in Digital Intelligence and Design Technologies (TIDD) from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). He is a project leader at the Center for the Study of Web Technologies at NIC.br (Ceweb.br) and at the W3C Brazil office. He is one of the editors of the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices recommendation. Research and work in the area of Semantic Web, Open Web Platform, standardization and emerging Web technologies.

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DCMI publishes Call for Participation for DC-2017 (Washington, D.C.)
by DCMI Announce 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

*==========Please excuse the cross-posting==========* *DC-2017 Call for Participation* *Advancing metadata practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability* DCMI has published the *Call for Participation* <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp> for the DC-2017 <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/index> *International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications* to be held in Washington, D.C., USA, October 26-29, 2017. The conference will be collocated with the ASIS&T Annual Meeting <https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2017/>. 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 - Post-Conference Workshops. Beyond the focus of the conference theme, submission of papers, project reports, presentations and posters are welcome in the following broad categories of metadata design, deployment and best practices: - 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* page at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/cfp on the DC-2017 website <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2017/schedConf/>.

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DCMI Webinar: From MARC silos to Linked Data silos? Data models for bibliographic Linked Data
by DCMI Announce 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

*******PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******* *From MARC silos to Linked Data silos? Data models for bibliographic Linked Data* *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *===========================================================* *:: Presenter:* Osma Suominen *:: Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EST (UTC 15:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/suominen-2017) *:: Date:* Tuesday, 28 February 2017 *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017suominen *===========================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* Many libraries are experimenting with publishing their metadata as Linked Data to open up bibliographic silos, usually based on MARC records, to the Web. The libraries who have published Linked Data have all used different data models for structuring their bibliographic data. Some are using a FRBR-based model where Works, Expressions and Manifestations are represented separately. Others have chosen basic Dublin Core, dumbing down their data into a lowest common denominator format. The proliferation of data models limits the reusability of bibliographic data. In effect, libraries have moved from MARC silos to Linked Data silos of incompatible data models. There is currently no universal model for how to represent bibliographic metadata as Linked Data, even though many attempts for such a model have been made.</p> In this webinar, you’ll see: - a survey of published bibliographic Linked Data, the data models proposed for representing bibliographic data as RDF, and tools used for conversion from MARC records - an analysis of different use cases for bibliographic Linked Data and how they affect the data model - recommendations for choosing a data model We also present efforts at the National Library of Finland to open up our bibliographic metadata, including the national bibliography Fennica, the national discography Viola and the article database Arto, as Linked Data while trying to learn from the examples of others. We are setting up a conversion process from MARC records to BIBFRAME and Schema.org compliant RDF, which we are going to publish as Linked Data using various technologies including a SPARQL endpoint, HDT compressed RDF dumps and a Linked Data Fragments API. *This webinar is an extended, in-depth version of the SWIB16 conference presentation ”From MARC silos to Linked Data silos?”* *Minimum Experience Level: * Basic familiarity of bibliographic metadata and Linked Data assumed *ABOUT THE PRESENTER:* *Osma Suominen* works as an information systems specialist at the National Library of Finland. His current activities are centered around the publishing of bibliographic data, including the Finnish national bibliography Fennica, as Linked Data. He is also one of the creators of the Finto.fi <http://finto.fi/> thesaurus and ontology service and is leading development of the Skosmos vocabulary browser used in Finto. Osma Suominen earned his doctoral degree at Aalto University while doing research on semantic portals and quality of controlled vocabularies within the FinnONTO series of projects. His past accomplishments include the Skosify vocabulary analysis and quality improvement tool, and data.aalto.fi, the Linked Data service of Aalto University.

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