DCMI Virtual 2021
Metadata Innovation
The theme of DCMI Virtual 2021 is Metadata Innovation. The programme includes virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes, best practice sessions, expert panel discussions, invited talks, tutorials, and student and member forums.
Global Time Zones
Each DCMI Virtual session runs in one of three time-slots, designed to increase availability across different timezones:
Zone A
Zone B
Zone C
Access to Presentations
Live Session Recordings
Links to recordings are made available at https://bit.ly/dcmi2021 for registered participants shortly after each session.
YouTube Archive
Several weeks post-conference, sessions are published on the DCMI YouTube channel with links posted to the DCMI website.
Presentation Slides
Speaker slides are posted to conference pages as they become available.
Keynote Speakers
Eero Hyvönen
Director, Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities
Eero Hyvönen is director of Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG) at the University of Helsinki and professor of semantic media technology at Aalto University, Department of Computer Science. He directs the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) specializing in Semantic Web technologies and applications. A major theme in his research since 2001 has been development of national level semantic web infrastructure. He has published over 400 research articles and books, received several international and national awards, and serves on editorial boards of major journals in the field.
Dan Brickley
Schema.org, Former W3C
Dan Brickley is best known for his work on Web standards in the W3C community, where he helped create the Semantic Web project and many of its defining technologies. He currently works on outreach activities related to the Schema.org initiative. Previous work included six years on the W3C technical staff, establishing ILRT's Semantic Web group at University of Bristol, and work at Joost and Vrije University Amsterdam. He has been involved with resource discovery metadata since 1994, exploring distributed, collaborative approaches to "finding stuff" ever since.