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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------