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Satellite meeting at SUB Goettingen to be held in conjunction with
the IFLA Conference in Berlin
On behalf of the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), the
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), and the Information
Technology Section of the International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA) we would like to invite you to
the Satellite meeting:
"Information Technology and DCMI"
http://post-ifla.sub.uni-goettingen.de/
being held at the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB),
Germany from 11th August to the 12th of August 2003.
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in
the development of interoperable online metadata standards that
support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's
activities include consensus-driven working groups, global
workshops, conferences, standards liaison, and educational efforts
to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and
practices.
The IFLA Information Technology Section (ITS) serves to promote
and advance the application of information technologies (IT) to
library and information services in all societies, through activities
related to standards, education and training, research, and the
marketplace. ITS scope includes IT for the creation, organization,
storage and maintenance, retrieval, and transfer of information and
documents of all types of libraries and information centers. It also
includes IT for the operation of libraries and information centers, as
well as managerial and policy issues regarding IT. Of primary
importance are network and wireless technologies as they apply to
IT as well as applications of IT for supporting access to and delivery
of information. The Göttingen State and University Library,
Germany (SUB) is an outstanding German academic
library with numerous rare and comprehensive collections. In several
research projects the SUB has proved to be a leading institution in
the field of Digital Library and online information services. For
digitization activities the SUB runs a sophisticated digitization and
service center (GDZ). The SUB's qualification to combine the
preservation of cultural heritage with future-oriented technology has
been recognised by the award "Library of the Year 2002".
Topics/Scope
The scope of this Satellite meeting will not only be to demonstrate
new developments in the field of (Dublin Core) metadata and their
implementations, but also to encourage even more organisations
around the world to use the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting to exchange and share metadata collections
(repositories).
Further objectives include discussions about important related
issues like long-term preservation and metadata registry.
One further important focus will be based on questions of follow-
ups for the next Dublin Core conference this year in Seattle
(Washington, USA) from the 28th of September to the 2nd of
October 2003 and the DCMI's National Affiliate concept.
For the Satellite meeting we expect an international range of
interesting talks exploring common approaches and challenges to
the topic of DCMI (state of the art report), metadata issues, long-
term preservation, OAI and registry. It will focus on different hot
topics, like national OAI activities, Dublin Core experiences and the
daily use as well as special preservation approaches.
Who should attend
all who are working with or interested in aspects of the Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative (DCMI) and/or the use of Dublin Core metadata
people from libraries, museums who are considering making their
repositories (metadata collections) of information available via the
Internet researchers and scientists who are interested in long-term
preservation, and copyright and DRM issues and decision makers
and project managers who are interested in new projects/initiatives
and approaches in the Digital Library developments
Dates
The Satellite meeting "Information Technology and DCMI" will be
held on the 11th (starts 14.00) and 12th of August (ends 16.00)
2003
Location
The Satellite meeting "Information Technology and DCMI" will take
place at the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB),
Germany:Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Sponsor
The conference is supported by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the context of the Meta-Lib
project.
Hans J. Becker
Head of Acquisition and Cataloguing Department
Subject Librarian Mathematics and Computer Science,
SSG Pure Mathematics, Project Manager
State and University Library of Goettingen, Lower Saxony
Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1
37073 Goettingen
Germany
Phone: ++49-551-395230
Fax: ++49-551-393199
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http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de
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