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Katherine M. Wisser
School of Information and Library Science
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University of North Carolina
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Subject: extended deadline/Dublin Core 2008



Due to a number of requests, the deadline for submissions for Dublin Core
2008 in Berlin, Germany, has been extended to April 13.

The formal CfP is below.

We'd appreciate help from colleagues and friends forwarding this post to
appropriate lists, and apologize for any duplication in advance.

thank you very much, jane and wolfgang

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND INITIAL CALL FOR PAPERS

       DC-2008 -- International Conference on Dublin Core
                  and Metadata Applications
                  http://dc2008.de/

                  "Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications"

                  22-26 September 2008
                  Berlin

The annual Dublin Core conferences bring together leading metadata
researchers and professionals from around the world.
DC-2008 in Berlin will be the eighth in a series of conferences held
previously in Tokyo, Florence, Seattle, Shanghai, Madrid, Manzanillo, and
Singapore.  The conference is organized jointly by the Competence Centre for
Interoperable Metadata (KIM), Max Planck Digital Library, Gottingen State
and University Library, the German National Library, Humboldt Universitat zu
Berlin, and Dublin Core Metadata Initiative with sponsorship from Wikimedia
Deutschland.

CONFERENCE THEME

Metadata is a key aspect of our evolving infrastructure for information
management, social computing, and scientific collaboration.

DC-2008 will focus on metadata challenges, solutions, and innovation in
initiatives and activities underlying semantic and social applications.
Metadata is part of the fabric of social computing, which includes the use
of wikis, blogs,
and tagging for collaboration and participation.   Metadata
also underlies the development of semantic applications, and the Semantic
Web -- the representation and integration of multimedia knowledge structures
on the basis of semantic models.  These two trends flow together in
applications such as Wikipedia, where authors collectively create structured
information that can be extracted and used to enhance access to and use of
information sources.

Recent discussion has focused on how existing bibliographic standards can be
expressed as Semantic Web vocabularies to facilitate the integration of
library and cultural heritage data with other types of data.  Harnessing the
efforts of content providers and end-users to link, tag, edit, and describe
their information in interoperable ways ("participatory metadata") is a key
step towards providing knowledge environments that are scalable,
self-correcting, and evolvable.

DC-2008 will explore conceptual and practical issues in the development and
deployment of semantic and social applications to meet the needs of specific
communities of practice.

Papers, reports, and poster submissions are welcome on a wide range of
metadata topics, such as:

+ Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)

+ Semantic Web metadata and applications

+ Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)

+ Social tagging

+ Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and Simple Knowledge
   Organization Systems (SKOS) (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies,
   authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri)

+ Metadata in e-Science and grid applications

+ Metadata interoperability and internationalization

+ Metadata quality, normalization, and mapping

+ Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping,
   preservation, institutional repositories)

+ Vocabulary registries and registry services

+ Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory
   institutions, education, government, and scientific fields)

+ Application profiles

+ Accessibility metadata

+ Search engines and metadata

+ Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices

+ Bibliographic standards (e.g., Resource Description and Access
   (RDA), Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR),
   subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies

SUBMISSIONS:

All submissions  will be peer-reviewed by the International Program
Committee and published in the conference proceedings.
The Committee is soliciting paper contributions of the following three
types:

-- FULL PAPERS (8 to 10 pages)

    Full papers either describe innovative original work in
    detail or provide critical, well-referenced overviews of key
    developments or good practice in the areas outlined above.
    Full papers will be assessed using the following criteria:

    o  Originality of the approach to implementation

    o  Generalizability of the methods and results described

    o  Quality of the contribution to the implementation community

    o  Significance of the results presented

    o  Clarity of presentation

-- PROJECT REPORTS (4 pages)

    Project reports describe a specific model, application, or
    activity in a concise, prescribed format.  Project reports
    will be assessed using the following criteria:

    o  Conciseness and completeness of technical description

    o  Usability of the technical description by other potential
implementers

    o  Clarity of presentation

Paper submissions in both categories must be in English and will be
published in both the print and the official electronic versions of the
conference proceedings.  Accepted papers must be presented in Berlin by at
least one of their authors.

-- POSTERS (1 page)

    Posters are for the presentation of projects or research under
    development or late-breaking results.  Poster proposals
    should consist of a title, an extended abstract, and
    contact information for the authors.  Accepted posters
    will be displayed at the conference and may include
    additional materials, space permitting.  Abstracts of
    posters will appear in the conference proceedings.

ONLINE SUBMISSION

Authors wishing to submit papers, reports, or poster proposals may do so
through the DCMI Peer Review System at
http://www.dcmipubs.org/ojs/index.php/pubs/.  Author registration and links
to the submission process appear under the "Information for Authors" link.

DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES

    Papers/reports/posters submission:  30 March 2008 (extend to 13 April)

    Acceptance notification:            15 May 2008

    Camera-ready copy due:              15 June 2008


Program Committee Co-Chairs:

-- Jane Greenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <janeg
(at) email.unc.edu>
-- Wolfgang Klas, Universitat Wien <Wolfgang.Klas (at) univie.ac.at>


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