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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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