The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative (DCMI) are pleased to announce that they will be
continuing their educational partnership in 2011 with three joint webinars
on topics related to metadata, linked data, and RDA vocabularies. This
partnership builds on the highly successful September 2010 NISO/DCMI webinar
that drew over 350 people from more than 100 sites.
The first webinar in the series will take place on March 26, 2011 on the
topic of Metadata Harmonization: Making Standards Work Together, featuring
as speakers Mikael Nilsson, a PhD in media technology from the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and Thomas Baker, Chief Information
Officer of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. The second webinar on
International Bibliographic Standards, Linked Data, and the Impact on
Library Cataloging will take place on August 24 and the third, The RDA
Vocabularies: Implementation, Extension, and Mapping, will take place on
November 16.
"There is a tremendous amount of activity related to metadata and the
semantic enrichment of content," said Todd Carpenter, NISO Managing
Director. "Continuing this webinar series with DCMI will help the community
to better understand these initiatives and their potential impact on
information discovery and navigation. With all the interest in the semantic
web, it is important that we all have a greater understanding of the
standards that makes these services possible."
Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer of DCMI added, "We are very pleased
to establish this relationship with NISO, which gives us the opportunity to
extend the reach of our tutorial activities to new audiences in a wide range
of working contexts."
Each of the webinars in the series will take place from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
(Eastern time). Registration fees for the event are $89 for US- or
Canadian-based members of NISO or DCMI and $104 for international members.
Non-members of either organization can register for $119 for U.S. and
Canadian registrants and $144 for international registrants. Registration is
per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the live webinar,
as well as a recorded archive of the event. Anyone who registers for all
three DCMI webinars can attend the NISO June 8 webinar on Semantic Web
Linking for free, equivalent to a 25% discount on the four events. A student
discount is also available. More information about the webinars and
registration is available by contacting the NISO office or visiting:
www.niso.org/news/events/2011/DCMI
Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 301-654-2512
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