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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:20:52 +0100
From: Gauri Salokhe <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: DC-2001 Call for Participation

                            DC-2001

International Conference on Dublin Core
and Metadata Applications 2001

Preliminary Call for Papers and Participation

Date:       October 22 - 26, 2001
Venue:      National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
Sponsors:   National Institute of Informatics (NII, http://www.nii.ac.jp/)
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI, http://dublincore.org/)
Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST, http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/)

The Dublin Core workshop series has provided a forum for international,
cross disciplinary metadata development since 1995. DC-2001, the 9th
event in the DC workshop series, will include an international conference
for the broader metadata community with three principal missions:

- to provide a forum to discuss further development of the Dublin Core
Metadata Element Set and related metadata standards

- to provide a forum to present and exchange new ideas about metadata and
applications, which are not limited to Dublin Core, and

- to provide tutorial opportuities to increase understanding concerning the
creation, management, and use of metadata applications.

DC-2001 is the first event in the DC Workshop series to be hosted in Asia
and is also the first event to provide conference tracks and tutorial tracks
in addition to the workshop track.

DC-2001 is soliting authors to submit their papers for presentation
and discussion. The topics may include, among others:

- Conceptual models for metadata
- Implementation of systems and tools for metadata applications
- Surveys and case studies of metadata applications
- Novel activities based on metadata
- Interoperability among metadata systems
- Relationships among various metadata standards

Important Dates

Paper Submission due:         June 20, 2001
Acceptance Notification due:  July 31, 2001
Camera Ready Copy due:        September 7, 2001

Submission Categories (provisional)

Regular Paper: 8-10 pages
Short paper: 2-4 pages

The short paper category will include not only research papers but also
demonstrations of applications, implementation and activity reports.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and
selected for presentation at the conference. All accepted papers should
be presented at the conference by an author or co-authors.  All
accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and
published both in printed and electronic forms.

Organization and chairs

Conference General Chair:  Jun Adachi (NII, Japan)
Program Co-chairs:         Thomas Baker (GMD, Germany)
Shigeo Sugimoto (ULIS, Japan)
Tutorial Chair:            Erik Jul (OCLC, USA)
Publications Chair:        Traugott Koch (Lund University, Sweden)
Local Arrangements Chair:  Keizo Oyama (NII, Japan)

More detailed information will appear at http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/DC2001/