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DCMI Webinar: VocBench 2.0: A Web Application for Collaborative Development of Multilingual Thesauri
by DCMI Announce 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

*********** Please excuse the cross postings *********** VocBench 2.0: A Web Application for Collaborative Development of Multilingual Thesauri *DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar* ==================================================================== *:: Time:* 10:00am EST (World Clock: 15:00 UTC http://bit.ly/DCMI-Webinar-Stellato) *:: Presenters:* Caterina Caracciolo & Armando Stellato *:: Date:* Wednesday, 4 March 2015 *:: Registration:* http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#2015caracciolo ==================================================================== *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* VocBench is a web-based platform for the collaborative maintenance of multilingual thesauri. VocBench is an open source project, developed in the context of a collaboration between the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO) and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. VocBench is currently used for the maintenance of AGROVOC, EUROVOC, GEMET, the thesaurus of the Italian Senate, the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus of Harvard University, as well as other thesauri. VocBench has a strong focus on collaboration, supported by workflow management for content validation and publication. Dedicated user roles provide a clean separation of competencies, addressing different specificities ranging from management aspects to vertical competencies in content editing, such as conceptualization versus terminology editing. Extensive support for scheme management allows editors to fully exploit the possibilities of the SKOS model, as well as to fulfill its integrity constraints. VocBench has been open source software since version 2 -- open to a large community of users and institutions supporting its development with their feedback and ideas. During the webinar, Dr. Caracciolo and Dr. Stellato will demonstrate the main features of VocBench from the point of view of users and system administrators, and explain in what way you may join the project. *ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:* *Caterina Caracciolo*, PhD, has served as an Information Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 2006. Currently, she is responsible for the AGROVOC Concept Scheme, and participates in the GACS Working Group and the Wheat Data Interoperability Working Group (RDA). Her main interest lay in the area of semantics for data integration and sharing, with a special focus on data specific to the domains of agriculture, biodiversity, natural science and environment in the broad sense. She regularly serves on program committees for international conferences and publishes in conference proceedings and journals in the area of semantic web and information sharing in agriculture and biodiversity. She has worked in various EC-funded projects and served as also served as Work Package leader in the NeOn and SemaGrow projects. *Armando Stellato*, PhD, is Researcher at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, where he carries on research and teaching in the fields of Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Based Systems. He is author of more than 70 publications on conferences and journals in the fields of Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing and related areas and has been member of the program committees of over 30 international scientific conferences and workshops. Currently his main interests cover Architecture Design for Knowledge Based Systems, Knowledge Acquisition and Onto-Linguistic interfaces, for which he participated to several EU funded projects, such as Crossmarc, Moses, Cuspis, Diligent, Neon, INSEARCH, SCIDIP-ES, AgInfra SemaGrow. Dr. Stellato is also consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations as Semantic Architect, working on all aspects related to maintenance and publication of FAO RDF vocabularies such as AGROVOC, Biotech and Journal Authority Data and on the development of VocBench, an Application for Collaborative Management of RDF Vocabularies. For more information and to register, visit http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#2015caracciolo

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Call for presentations for the Biodiversity Data IG session at RDA plenary in San Diego
by Dimitris Koureas 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

Dear all, (Apologies for any cross-postings) We are fast approaching the next RDA plenary in San Diego (9-11 Mar 2015) (http://rd-alliance.org). The Biodiversity Data Integration Interest Group (BDI IG) made some significant steps in both promoting key issues (e.g. names and name services) as a key challenge for bringing together research data across life sciences. Furthermore, the BDI IG proposed a joint meeting to be held at the next RDA plenary that will enable environmental and biodiversity related and cross-cutting groups to initiate a direct dialogue on common issues (https://rd-alliance.org/Environment-related-Plenary-Session). The BDI IG will also run a breakout session. The session will take place on Tuesday 10 Mar between 09.00 and 10.30. In the context of the RDA plenary theme ('adopt a deliverable'), we are looking for presentations that will demonstrate successful examples of biodiversity data integration for facilitating biodiversity and environmental research. The examples might be presented both from a technological (deployment of tools or services) or scientific (case studies) perspective. We would like to invite you to submit your proposals for short presentations (up to 10 min) at the next Biodiversity Data Integration IG breakout session. Please send your proposals (mail to d.koureas(a)nhm.ac.uk<mailto:d.koureas@nhm.ac.uk>) by Monday 9 Feb. On behalf of the BDI IG chairs, Kind regards, Dimitris -- Dr Dimitrios Koureas Dept of Life Sciences | Biodiversity Informatics Group Natural History Museum London | SW7 5BD London, UK Research Data Alliance - Biodiversity Data Integration IG, co-chair Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), executive member ORCID: 0000-0002-4842-6487 | Linkedin: uk.linkedin.com/in/dkoureas E-mail: d.koureas(a)nhm.ac.uk<mailto:d.koureas@nhm.ac.uk> | Twitter: @DimitrisKoureas | Tel: +44 (0) 207 942 5244

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DC-2015 Call for Participation - 2nd notice, São Paulo, Brazil
by DCMI Announce 03 Feb '15

03 Feb '15

*Apologies for cross-posting* Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital Humanities *DCMI 20th Anniversary International Conference & Annual Meeting* *September 1-5, 2015 — São Paulo, Brazil* ================= *Conference Website:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015 *Call for Participation:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015/cfp *Track Policies:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2015/schedConf/trackPol… ================= *Abstract:* The need for structured metadata to support ubiquitous access across the Web to the treasure troves of resources spanning cultures, in science, and in the digital humanities is now common knowledge among information systems designers and implementers. Structured metadata expressed through languages of description make it possible for us to 'speak' about the contents of our treasure troves. But, like all human languages, our languages of description both enable and isolate. The push to break out of the isolation of the metadata silos in which professionals inevitably design, implement and manage metadata in order to discover the intersections of our treasure troves drives much of today's discourse and emerging practice in metadata. The emergence of massively integrated Web presences such as Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) along with the reshaping of public access globally through mechanisms such as Linked Data and schema.org drive our conversations, our excitement, and our fears. *IMPORTANT DATES:* *Technical Program Deadlines:* *Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters* --*Submission Deadline:* 28 March 2015 --*Author Notification:* 23 June 2015 --*Final Copy:* 28 July 2015 *Professional Program Deadlines * *Special & Panel Sessions* --*Proposal Deadline:* 28 March 2015 --*Author Notification: *25 April 2015 *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations* --*Submission Deadline:* 14 July 2015 --*Author Notification:* Ongoing ================= *Join us in São Paulo, Brazil* Each of the past 20 years, the metadata community has gathered for DCMI's conference and annual meeting. The work agenda of the DCMI community is broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design, implementation and best practices. While the work of the Initiative progresses throughout the year, the annual meeting and conference provide the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students, apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share experiences and knowledge. In addition, the gathering provides public- and private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata work to come together to compare notes and cast a broader light into their particular metadata work silos. Through such a gathering of the metadata communities, DCMI advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata interoperability and harmonization. This year, the annual meeting and conference are being hosted by the Universidade Estadual Paulista--São Paulo State University (UNESP) and held in São Paulo, Brazil. ================= *CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:* --Universidade Estadual Paulista--São Paulo State University (UNESP) --Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) ================= *CONFERENCE CHAIRS:* --Plácida Santos, Professor Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil --Silvana Borsetti Gregorio Vidotti, Professor Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil --Flávia Maria Bastos, CGB Coordinator General Coordination of Libraries Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil --Mariana Curado Malta CEISE/ISCAP - Polytechnic of Oporto, Portugal Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal

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Call for Proposals, SPNHC 2015: Collections and Zoonotic & Human Disease Research
by Graham, Eileen 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

Colleagues: Scientific Collections International (SciColl) is organizing a session at the upcoming SPNHC 2015 meeting on The Role of Collections in Zoonotic and Human Disease Research<http://scicoll.org/ed.html>. We invite researchers and collections managers who are using their collections for human and zoonotic disease research to submit an abstract. We are particularly eager to include presentations about collaborations across collections and disciplines, especially with public health, wildlife, livestock and veterinary sciences. SciColl recently hosted a workshop on this topic with 40 representatives from diverse collections and research perspectives. They agreed that greater cross-disciplinary access to samples and data would help in combatting infectious diseases. If you would like to join us, please follow the submission instructions<http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/spnhc2015/abstract-presentation-info/> provided on the SPNHC 2015 website<http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/spnhc2015/home/>. Please note: * Abstracts are due by January 31st. * To have your submission flagged for this session, answer "yes" to the question "Participant in Titled Organized Session?" at the bottom of the submission form. * Then enter "Engaging Scientific Collections in Zoonotic and Human Disease Research" as the title of the session in the line immediately below. If you have any questions, please email me: grahame(a)si.edu<mailto:grahame@si.edu>. We look forward to seeing you at SPNHC! Eileen Eileen Graham, Program Manager Scientific Collections International e: grahame(a)si.edu<mailto:grahame@si.edu> p: 202-633-0256 t: @sci_coll<https://twitter.com/sci_coll> w: www.scicoll.org<http://www.scicoll.org/> [scicoll_logo_color-small]

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R package for DwC-A
by David Shorthouse 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

All, Is anyone aware of an R package for extracting and reading Darwin Core Archive files (occurrence and/or checklists)? Thanks, David

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ICE 2016 - Call for Symposia due 2 March 2015
by Kampmeier, Gail E 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

The upcoming XXV International Congress of Entomology will be held in Orlando, Florida, 25-30 September 2016* http://ice2016orlando.org/. Many in TDWG are entomologists (or know entomologists, or count them as friends), and this Congress is a chance for those of us working with biodiversity information standards to reach a wider group of entomologists from around the world and to share information and experiences. I am one of three conveners for Section 5: Biodiversity, Biogeography and Conservation Biology http://ice2016orlando.org/scientific-program/sections-conveners/. So far only two symposia have been submitted for this section, and the deadline is fast approaching (2 March 2015) http://ice2016orlando.org/call-for-symposia-for-the-2016-international-cong…. Nico Franz is soliciting potential speakers for a symposium he is organizing with Katja Seltmann http://taxonbytes.org/ice-2016-orlando-symposium-proposal-building-the-biod… under Section 5, and I’d would love to see additional TDWG-related symposia submitted. This is a wonderful opportunity to feature and involve colleagues from around the globe at this venue. Please consider submitting a proposal for a symposium by the deadline (or earlier!!). Please contact me if you might be interested in submitting a symposium proposal, have an appropriate topic you want to hear, or even if you have a talk you’re thinking about presenting within the theme of Biodiversity, Biogeography and Conservation Biology. All the best, Gail * P.S. For us in the United States, we’re very excited to be bringing the Congress back to the US for the first time since our country’s bicentennial in 1976. I wasn’t even an entomologist then, but I was working with one of the first efforts to convert a traditional library card catalog into something digital (complete with acoustic coupler modem on a phone handset) at the Boston Public Library. Who knew? Gail E. Kampmeier Illinois Natural History Survey Prairie Research Institute University of Illinois 1816 So. Oak St. Champaign, IL 61820 www.inhs.illinois.edu/~gkamp<http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/~gkamp>

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DCMI Webinar: Eric Miller on libraries and speaking the language of the Web
by DCMI Announce 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

* Apologies for cross-posting * *The Libhub Initiative: Increasing the Web Visibility of Libraries* *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *7 January 2015* ================== *TIME:* 10:00am-11:15am EST (UTC 15:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/DCMI-Webinar-Miller) *REGISTRATION:* http://bit.ly/DCMI_Webinar-Miller ================== *Webinar Abstract: * As a founding sponsor, Zepheira's introduction of the Libhub Initiative creates an industry-wide focus on the collective visibility of libraries and their resources on the Web. Libraries and memory organizations have rich content and resources that the Web can not see or use. The Libhub Initiative aims to find common ground for libraries, providers, and partners to publish and use data with non-proprietary web standards. Libraries can then communicate in a way Web applications understand and Web users can see through the use of enabling technology like Linked Data and shared vocabularies such as schema.org and BIBFRAME. The Libhub Initiative uniquely prioritizes the linking of these newly exposed library resources to each other and to other resources across the Web, a critical requirement of increased Web visibility. In this webinar, Eric will talk about the transition libraries must make to achieve Web visibility, explain recent trends that support these efforts, and introduce the Libhub Initiative -- an active exploration of what can happen when libraries begin to speak the language of the Web. *Presenter: Eric Miller* Eric Miller is the President of Zepheira. Prior to founding Zepheira, Eric led the Semantic Web Initiative for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT where he led the architectural and technical leadership in the design and evolution of the Semantic Web. Eric is a frequent and sought after international speaker in areas of International Web standards, knowledge management, collaboration, development and deployment.

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DC-2015 website and call for participation now open
by DCMI Announce 20 Dec '14

20 Dec '14

*Apologies for cross-posting* *Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital Humanities* *DCMI 20th Anniversary International Conference & Annual Meeting* *September 1-5, 2015 — São Paulo, Brazil* The Conference website and the call for participation for DC-2015 are now open. *=================* *Conference Website:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015 *Call for Participation:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015/cfp *Track Policies:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2015/schedConf/trackPol… *=================* *Abstract: *The need for structured metadata to support ubiquitous access across the Web to the treasure troves of resources spanning cultures, in science, and in the digital humanities is now common knowledge among information systems designers and implementers. Structured metadata expressed through languages of description make it possible for us to 'speak' about the contents of our treasure troves. But, like all human languages, our languages of description both enable and isolate. The push to break out of the isolation of the metadata silos in which professionals inevitably design, implement and manage metadata in order to discover the intersections of our treasure troves drives much of today's discourse and emerging practice in metadata. The emergence of massively integrated Web presences such as Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) along with the reshaping of public access globally through mechanisms such as Linked Data and schema.org drive our conversations, our excitement, and our fears. *IMPORTANT DATES:* *Technical Program Deadlines: * *Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters* --*Submission Deadline:* 28 March 2015 --*Author Notification:* 23 June 2015 --*Final Copy:* 28 July 2015 *Professional Program Deadlines* *Special & Panel Sessions* --*Proposal Deadline:* 28 March 2015 --*Author Notification:* 25 April 2015 *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations* --*Submission Deadline: *14 July 2015 --*Author Notification:* Ongoing *=================* *Join us in São Paulo, Brazil* Each of the past 20 years, the metadata community has gathered for DCMI's conference and annual meeting. The work agenda of the DCMI community is broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design, implementation and best practices. While the work of the Initiative progresses throughout the year, the annual meeting and conference provide the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students, apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share experiences and knowledge. In addition, the gathering provides public- and private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata work to come together to compare notes and cast a broader light into their particular metadata work silos. Through such a gathering of the metadata communities, DCMI advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata interoperability and harmonization. This year, the annual meeting and conference are being hosted by the Universidade Estadual Paulista--São Paulo State University (UNESP) and held in São Paulo, Brazil. *=================* *CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:* --Universidade Estadual Paulista--São Paulo State University (UNESP) --Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) *=================* *CONFERENCE CHAIRS:* --Plácida Santos, Professor Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil --Silvana Borsetti Gregorio Vidotti, Professor Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil --Flávia Maria Bastos, CGB Coordinator General Coordination of Libraries Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil --Mariana Curado Malta CEISE/ISCAP - Polytechnic of Oporto, Portugal Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal

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DCMI/ASIS&T Webinar: "The Libhub Initiative: Increasing the Web Visibility of Libraries"
by DCMI Announce 07 Dec '14

07 Dec '14

******************Please excuse the cross postings****************** *DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar* ==================================================================== :: *Title:* *"The Libhub Initiative: Increasing the Web Visibility of Libraries"* :: *Presenter:* Eric Miller :: *Date:* Wednesday, 7 January 2015 :: *Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EST (World Clock: 15:00 UTC http://bit.ly/DCMI-Webinar-Miller) :: *Registration:* http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-1-7-2015-register.html ==================================================================== *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* As a founding sponsor, Zepheira's introduction of the *Libhub Initiative <http://www.libhub.org/>* creates an industry-wide focus on the collective visibility of libraries and their resources on the Web. Libraries and memory organizations have rich content and resources that the Web can not see or use. The *Libhub Initiative* aims to find common ground for libraries, providers, and partners to publish and use data with non-proprietary, web standards. Libraries can then communicate in a way Web applications understand and Web users can see through the use of enabling technology like Linked Data and shared vocabularies such as schema.org and BIBFRAME <http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/>. The *Libhub Initiative* uniquely prioritizes the linking of these newly exposed library resources to each other and to other resources across the Web, a critical requirement of increased Web visibility. In this webinar, Eric Miller will talk about the transition libraries must make to achieve Web visibility, explain recent trends that support these efforts, and introduce the Libhub Initiative -- an active exploration of what can happen when libraries begin to speak the language of the Web. *SPEAKER:* *Eric Miller* is the President of Zepheira <http://zepheira.com/>. Prior to founding Zepheira, Eric led the Semantic Web Initiative for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT where he led the architectural and technical leadership in the design and evolution of the Semantic Web. Eric is a frequent and sought after international speaker in areas of International Web standards, knowledge management, collaboration, development and deployment. :: For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/Webinar-DCMI-1-7-2015-register.html

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Jobs and internships at CETAF's Secretariat General
by Mergen Patricia 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

Dear all We wanted to make you aware of two job openings at the CETAF secretariat. Please find more info at http://www.cetaf.org/about-us/careers and in the two attached files. Deadline to apply is 31st of December. If you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact Ana Casino here in copy. Pat

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