DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community Meeting at DC2008
1. Call for short presentations
This is a call for short presentations for the meeting of the DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community at the DC2008 conference in Berlin. The meeting will be held Thursday 25 September 2008 15:30-17:00. http://dc2008.de/programme/workshops
The DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community aim to exchange ideas and share experiences on localization and internationalisation issues arising from or relating to the use of Dublin Core in a variety of languages and cultures.
Topics for your presentation can include: use of DC and application profiles in local languages and cultures; interoperability of metadata in the global community; definitions of elements and qualifiers to express language or culture specific information; maintenance of element/qualifier definitions in a variety of languages and multilingual metadata description and vocabularies.
If you would like to do a short presentation of approximately 10-15 minutes at this meeting then contact the moderators of this community, Shigeo [log in to unmask] and Karen [log in to unmask]
2. Task Force for the Translation of DC Terms
One half of this meeting will be dedicated to a discussion on language translations of DC Terms. If you are planning on translating DC Terms or recently worked on a translation this workshop will be of interest. Topics to be discussed can include why and what DC Terms to translate; prioritising, and translation steps.
Background: The DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community have established a Task Group whose goal is to ensure quality in the translation of DC terms for languages. This workshop will inform the work of the Task Force.
Shigeo Sugimoto [log in to unmask]
Karen Rollitt [log in to unmask]
Moderators, DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community
DC2008 Conference Web Site: http://dc2008.de/
Conference Programme: http://dc2008.de/programme
Workshop Programme: http://dc2008.de/programme/workshops#Workshop15
DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community http://dublincore.org/groups/languages/
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