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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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