Dublin Core 2003 Conference -- Carol Hixson Stephen Clark 25 Jun 2003 16:26 UTC
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: DC 2003 Conference From: Carol Hixson <chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:19:28 -0700 Registration is open for the 2003 Dublin Core Conference to be held in Seattle, WA, Sept. 28 - Oct. 2. The conference will provide participants with a forum for intensive interaction with researchers, practitioners and decision makers concerned with advances in metadata for resource discovery, retrieval, management and use. The DC-2003 Conference theme "Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice: Metadata Research & Applications" provides a framework in which researchers can share inquiries, research methodologies, and results from their latest studies and in which system implementers can share application developments and display their tools through the DC-Lab. The scope of matters addressed by the contributed papers is not confined to the Dublin Core metadata element set but extends across all metadata schemas and application domains. The Conference Track will present refereed papers on metadata and related areas of concern including the following: * Conceptual models and fundamental principles * Globalization and localization * Community or domain metadata (statistical, government, geo-spatial, etc.) * Enterprise metadata * Metadata registries and registry services * Interoperability among metadata systems and standards * Search engines and metadata * Implementation of systems and tools for metadata applications In addition to the main conference, two pre-conference workshops on metadata related topics will be offered on September 28: Metadata Primer - you will learn metadata's role in resource discovery, management, and interoperability. The basic questions -- "What is metadata?" "What can metadata do?" "How does XML figure into this?" -- will be covered through interactive lectures and hands on computer lab-based mini-projects. The primer will be team-taught by members of the community of the Information School of the University of Washington and other select instructors who actively work with metadata. Metadata and Search - emphasis will be on internal or site search technology as opposed to external, Internet or web search technology (although some technology is applicable to both internal and external search applications). There will be presentations by experts, implementation case studies, demonstrations by search technology vendors, and lots of time for Q&A. Organized by the DCMI Global Corporate Circles Special Interest Group. For online registration and further information about the workshops and conference, see: <http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/index.html>http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/index.html Carol Hixson Member, DC2003 Publicity Committee Head, Catalog Department University of Oregon Libraries chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu