British Library
April 26, 2012 – April 27, 2012
April 2012 marks the fifth anniversary of the Data Model Meeting at the British Library, London attended by participants interested in the fit between RDA: Resource Description and Access and the models used in other metadata communities, especially those working in the Semantic Web environment. This meeting, informally known as the "London Meeting", has proved to be a critical point in the trajectory of libraries from the traditional data view to linked data and the Semantic Web.
DCMI-UK in cooperation with DCMI International as well as others will co-sponsor a one-day seminar on Friday 27 April 2012 to describe progress since 2007, mark the anniversary, and look to further collaboration in the future.
Speakers include participants at the 2007 meeting and other significant players in library data and the Semantic Web. Papers from the seminar will be published by DCMI and available freely online.
The London Meeting stimulated significant development of Semantic Web representations of the major international bibliographic metadata models, including IFLA's Functional Requirements family and the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), and MARC as well as RDA itself. Attention is now beginning to focus on the management and sustainability of this activity, and the development of high-level semantic and data structures to support library applications.
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The seminar will be preceded by inaugural meetings of the new « DCMI Vocabulary Management Community » and « DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group » on Thursday, 26 April 2012 which will be open to all. Development of agendas for these Thursday 26 April meetings can be followed on the wikis for the « DCMI Vocabulary Management Community » and « DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group ».
The final Report of the meeting can be found in in the Events section of the Cataloguing News column at « http://catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com/ccq50nr5-7.html (scroll way down) and will be published in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly »