International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
The annual Dublin Core conferences bring together leading metadata researchers and professionals from around the world. The Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications cover a full range of topics related to standards and technologies for metadata.
In addition to the availability of the full proceeding for the conference here on this website, the peer reviewed parts of the proceedings for 2001-2016 are published and permanently available at http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/.
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DC-2018, Porto, Portugal
September 10, 2018 – September 13, 2018
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DC-2017, Washington, D.C.
October 26, 2017 – October 29, 2017
Hyatt Regency
Washington D.C. (Crystal City, Virginia)
2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VAAdvancing metadata practice: Quality, Openness, Interoperability
Following up on DC-2016 in Copenhagen, with its look towards the changing role of metadata in the Second Machine Age, this year's conference 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.
In conjunction with each conference, the DCMI community holds an Annual Meeting at which DCMI citizens discuss ongoing work in areas such as vocabulary management, website design, and RDF validation. Together, the Conference and Annual Meeting provide opportunities for seasoned professionals, newcomers, students, apprentices, and early career professionals to share knowledge and experience. The meeting is a venue for practitioners in public- and private-sector initiatives to network and compare notes. Following the pattern of last year's conference in Copenhagen, DC-2017 will overlap with the annual meeting of ASIS&T, providing additional opportunities for professional interaction.
These gatherings advance DCMI's mission of promoting the interoperability and harmonization of metadata, from element schemas and Semantic Web vocabularies to application profiles, ontologies, and knowledge organization systems.
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DC-2016, Copenhagen, Denmark
October 13, 2016 – October 16, 2016
The Summit in Copenhagen launches DCMI's 3rd decade and provides a forum for looking forward to new challenges and backward at challenges met and challenges unresolved. Every year the DCMI community gathers for both its Annual Meeting and its International Conference on Dublin Core & Metadata Applications. 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 Conference and Annual Meeting provide the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students, apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share knowledge and experience. The Summit in Copenhagen will provide the opportunity for public- and private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata work to come together, to compare notes, and to 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.
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DC-2015, São Paulo, Brazil
September 1, 2015 – September 4, 2015
CONFERENCE 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.
DCMI ANNUAL MEETING: Every year the DCMI community gathers for both its Annual Meeting and its International Conference on Dublin Core & Metadata Applications. 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 & Conference provides the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students, apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share experiences. 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 & Conference is being hosted by the Universidade Estadual Paulista—São Paulo State University » and held in São Paulo, Brazil.
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DC-2014, Austin Texas, U.S.A.
October 8, 2014 – October 11, 2014
Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural Memory
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata ApplicationsWednesday, October 8th through Saturday, October 11th, Austin, Texas, USA
Metadata is fundamental in enabling ubiquitous access to cultural and scientific resources through galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM). While fundamental, GLAM traditions in documentation and organization lead to significant differences in both their languages of description and domain practices. And yet, the push is on for "radically open cultural heritage data"* that bridges these differences as well as those across the humanities and the natural sciences. DC-2014 will explore the role of metadata in spanning the archipelago of siloed cultural memory in an emerging context of linked access to data repositories as well as repositories of cultural artifacts.
*John Voss, « Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web »
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DC-2013, Lisbon, Portugal
September 2, 2013 – September 6, 2013
DC-2013 will explore questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. Thus, the maintenance and management of metadata is essential to address the long term availability of information of legal, cultural and economic value.
On the web, data—and especially descriptive vocabularies—can change or vanish from one moment to the next. Nonetheless, the web increasingly forms the ecosystem for our vocabularies and our data. DC-2013 will bring together in Lisbon the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing a sustainable metadata ecosystem.
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DC-2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
September 3, 2012 – September 7, 2012
DC-2012 will explore the global, national and regional roles of metadata in addressing global challenges such as food security, the digital divide, and sustainable development. Metadata plays a significant role globally in information systems shaping how we know, monitor and change social and governmental systems affecting everything from the environment, human rights and justice to education and peace. DC-2012 will bring together in Kuching the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing languages of description to meet these global challenges.
DC-2012 will take place in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo) from 3 through 7 September 2012 and will be part of the collocated activities of «Knowledge Technology Week 2012».
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» VenueSpecial Session Semantic Web Vocabularies and Drupal
A number of the organizations represented at Knowledge Technology Week 2012 and DC-2012 use a Drupal platform (e.g., FAO and VIVO) or are planning such a migration (ZBW Labs and DCMI). This special session will explore the relationship between Drupal and Linked Open Data (LOD) vocabularies - specifically, how Drupal systems can ingest and use LOD vocabularies and publish data using LOD vocabularies. How does, or how might, Drupal interact with the Agrovoc Vocbench, AgInfra tools, metadata registries, or Schema.org? The session will begin with lightning talks about projects that use or are implementing any of the approaches above. These presentations will lead into "unconference"-style brainstorming to identify opportunities for sharing expertise, pooling efforts, or defining joint goals. «…more information »
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DC-2011, The Hague
September 21, 2011 – September 23, 2011
Metadata Harmonization: Bridging Languages of Description
Resting at the heart of application profiles, «metadata harmonization»[1] presents a little understood, but critical challenge in design of languages of description. DC-2011 will explore the conceptual and practical issues of design when the language solution calls for cross-fertilization from different metadata specifications.
DC-2011, the eleventh International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will take place at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague from 21 through 23 September 2011. The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) fosters the national infrastructure for scientific information and plays an important role in the permanent access to digital information at an international level. The KB has been involved in many international research projects in the field of digital libraries and hosts the offices of European Library Office. The European Library and Europeana. The European Library Office is coordinating the local organization of DC-2011.
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DCMI Regional Meetings, Workshops & Seminars
DCMI Regional Meetings are focused on specific metadata issues of interest in both the host region and to metadata researchers and practitioners throughout the metadata ecology. Regional Meetings are hosted regionally and endorsed by DCMI. Topics addressed vary.
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DCMI @ 21
August 19, 2016 – August 19, 2016
Date: 19-Aug-16 Location: OCLC, Dublin, OH, USA Room: Lakeside Room (Smith Building) Duration: All-day event + reception IFLA Section Sponsor: « IFLA Information Technology Section » Co-sponsor: « Dublin Core Metadata Initiative » Host & Supporter OCLC 
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IFLA World Library and Information Congress
82nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly
Dublin Core at 21 celebrates DC's amazing 21 year history and anticipates its future.
The Dublin Core originated in 1995 at a meeting at OCLC (in the very room where this IFLA Satellite event will also take place). This special event will bring a historical view of key people who were there when the Web was young, and Dublin Core was new, and evolving rapidly.
But the Web does not stand still. Presentations will also provide information on the latest metadata standards-related work underway by DCMI (The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) and OCLC's current work with metadata models, standards, and technologies advancing the state of the art for libraries and archives.
Presenters will include metadata experts with long ties to Dublin Core including several who were at the original invitational meeting in 1995. A panel discussion will permit speakers to reflect on activities and trends past and present.
Attendees are invited to attend a complimentary reception and special unveiling following the presentation portion of the day.
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Sponsors
- IFLA Information Technology Section
DCMI (The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) Supporter
- OCLC
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- OCLC (This event will take place at the Conference Center at OCLC in Dublin, Ohio.)
What is included with registration?
- Each registered attendee will receive a ticket to attend the event. A catered lunch—preceding the event's formal start - and afternoon refreshment will be provided.
The event will close with a beer and wine reception and a special unveiling. What is the spoken language of the event?
- English
Is there a detailed schedule for the event?
The schedule will appear on the lanyrd page
What are my transport/parking options for the event?
- For information about transportation options, see the OCLC event page.
What are my hotel options for the event?
- For information on hotel options, please see the the OCLC event page.
Is reduced pricing available for early registration?>
- Yes. Reduced price tickets (early registration) are available through 30 June 2016 (or until tickets are sold out if the event sells out prior to 30 June).
Is my registration/ticket transferrable?
- Yes. Please send an e-mail to [email protected] with the subject line, "Dublin Core at 21," to request a transfer.
Can I update my registration information?
- Yes. Please note that your name badge will be based on the information you supply in your registration form.
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
- Please send an e-mail to [email protected] with the subject line, "Dublin Core at 21"
Is there social media for this event?
- Yes! Go to this lanyrd page to let the world know you will be attending, like/follow the event facebook page and follow @dcmi_events for updates on this event and other DCMI events.
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DCMI-AsiaPac Shanghai
June 20, 2014 – June 20, 2014Seminar: Digital Humanities and Semantic Technologies
The sixth seminar of the Advanced Technologies in Libraries series and the first DCMI Regional Meeting held in China.
Place: Shanghai Library
Time: 20 June 2014, 9:00-16:00
Registration: Free — Now closed.Program:
- Morning: Keynotes
- Afternoon: Presentations & Discussions
Organizer:
- « Shanghai Society for Library Science »
- « DCMI »
- « Shanghai Library »
Sponsor: « The Digital Library Lab of Nanjing University »
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Making Metadata Work
June 23, 2014 – June 23, 2014Making Metadata Work
Joint Meeting of
« ISKO UK » (UK Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization),
« IRSG » (Information Retrieval Special Interest Group of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT), and
« DCMI » (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative)
The concept of Metadata is growing up, as we find applications far more sophisticated than just reading the label on the tin. In the early days of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) the most obvious aim was to enable us all to find stuff in the expanding Internet environment. Nowadays we see more opportunities in creating and exploiting linkages between diverse resources in a variety of networks, and in revolutionizing the media production workflow so that semantic connections support the user while removing inefficiencies.
Making Metadata Work will be a showcase for the latest developments in the evolution of the Semantic Web, exploitation of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), metadata annotation to aid workflow automation, information retrieval in networks of diverse media assets, Linked Data, and other opportunities for using metadata. The day will be modular: attendance in the morning is optional, with a choice of workshop or tutorial, while the afternoon programme is for everyone.
Monday 23rd June 2014
Wilkes Room—British Computer Society London Office
1st Floor, The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA
« Location map and directions »Full day, including lunch and a choice of tutorial or workshop: €120 (or €70 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for full-time students)
Afternoon only: €£60 (or €25 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for full-time students)
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DCMI-AsiaPac Workshop 2013
August 15, 2013 – August 15, 2013DCMI Workshop on RDA, DC and Linked Data
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Jurong Regional Library, National Library Board Singapore
Held in conjunction with IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2013
17-23 August 2013
National Library Board Singapore The DCMI-AsiaPac Workshop will be held a day before the IFLA IT Section's conference on "User interaction based on library linked data" on 16 August. IFLA WLIC itself will run from 17-23 August 2013. DCMI-AsiaPac is part of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's Regional Meetings Series. The workshop will raise awareness among librarians in the Asian region of the implementation of Resource Description and Access (RDA) and how library metadata (specifically DC) can be exposed as linked data to improve visibility & enhance collection usage. Our objective is also to build confidence among Asian librarians to work well in the digital arena and be comfortable enough to adopt new technologies that will help improve their libraries' services. A secondary objective is to build a community for the DCMI Asia task group where regular discussion and work on metadata matters can be established.
The theme for the workshop will be "RDA, DC and LOD" and it will be made up of 2 half-day seminars. The morning seminar will focus on introductory concepts which are very important for our region where most librarians are still working with MARC and are not exposed to linked data or Semantic Web technologies. The afternoon seminar will focus on implementation—what and how librarians can expose both their MARC and DC metadata as linked data.
Presentations
Karen Coyle's Presentations:
- « Making a Statement »
- « Identifiers »
- « Introduction to the Semantic Web »
- « Ontologies »
- « Vocabularies »
Sam Oh's Presentations:
- « Publishing Linkes Data »
- « Ontology Design Using TBC »
- « Publishing Linked Data Using Open Refine & BibFrame »
- « NLK Linked Data (LD) Publishing Experience »
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DCMI-UK Seminar: Five Years On
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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» PresentationsThe 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 »
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