Forwarding on behalf of Mirjam Keßler
- Apologies for cross-posting -
Early Bird Registration extended!
"Early bird" registration for the 8th International Conference on Dublin Core
and Metadata Applications - to be held from 22 trough 26 September 2008 in
Berlin - has been extended for two weeks. Participants are invited to
register online at the conference Web site and book accommodation for their
stay in Berlin. Register by 15 August to receive the early bird discount.
This year's conference will focus on metadata for social and semantic
applications. The main conference is taking place from Tuesday through
Thursday, 23 to 25 September. Plenary presentations, poster sessions, and
public working-group meetings will be held on topics such as
- Toward the Semantic Web
- Wikis and Metadata
- Tagging and Metadata for Social Networking
- Semantic Integration, Linking, and KOS Methods
- Metadata Generation: Methods, Profiles, and Models
- Vocabulary Integration and Interoperability
- Metadata Quality
- Metadata Scheme Design, Application, and Use
- Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Related events include tutorials on Monday, 22 September, introducing Dublin
Core standards, concepts, history, and implementation issues. In parallel,
student-to-student tutorials in German language will be held under the
auspices of FH Potsdam. Following the conference on Friday, 26 September,
four seminars on metadata topics will be held:
- User Generated Metadata (organised by Wikimedia)
- Using the TEI for Documenting Describing Documents
- PREMIS Metadata
- Ontology Design and Interoperability
To benefit from the early bird rates please register by 15 August.
Conference Web Site: http://dc2008.de/
Conference Program: http://dc2008.de/programme
Registration: http://dc2008.de/registration
Kind regards,
Mirjam Kessler
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Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB) Göttingen
Goettingen State and University Library
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Germany
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