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DCMI Virtual: Student Forum

Student Forum - Call for Participation

The DCMI 2021 Conference Program Committee invites you to submit an abstract or proposal for presentation at the DCMI 2021 Student Forum, to be held on 11th and 12th October, 2021.

The aim of this forum is to provide opportunity to masters' and doctoral
students to share their experiences and exchange ideas of best
practices, research in progress and findings in areas relating to the
theme of the conference, which is, Metadata Innovation.

The topics may include but not limited to the following:

  • Metadata for cultural heritage
  • Metadata mapping
  • Data integration
  • Linked Data
  • Organization of linked spaces and cultures
  • Practical application in adoption of linked data and metadata
    innovation
  • Linked data education and advocacy and interoperability

Deadline for Submission of abstracts for Student Forum presentation

Postgraduate students currently enrolled to any academic programs or
internships and recently graduated students are requested to submit
their abstracts for Student Forum presentation by 20th July 2021 31st July 2021, 23:59
AoE (Anywhere on Earth) for consideration.

Evaluation of abstracts and proposals

The Program Committee will evaluate abstracts and proposals based on the
following criteria:

  • Support of the conference theme and goals
  • Interest to information sciences disciplines such as Libraries,
    Archives, and Museums (LAMs) Publishing, among others
  • Representation from regions, and topics that are underrepresented in the conferences relating to metadata innovation and linked data

Feedback to submitted abstracts

Feedback and decision on submitted abstracts will be notified by 30th of July 20th of August 2021

Submission Details

  • Submissions should be authored by students only.
  • The abstracts should have a clear title and the content must be less than 1500 words plus references.
  • The author's full name, enrolled academic program and affiliation
    should be mentioned after the title.
  • If the submission has multiple authors, all authors and their
    affiliations should be stated.
  • The name of the supervisor(s)/Mentor(s) with affiliation must be clearly marked on the abstract, under the authors' name.
  • The funding agency or any other party supporting or contributing to the research should be acknowledged.
  • Recommended file type for abstract and presentation is PDF.
  • To submit an abstract for the student forum presentation, please use the abstract submission portal (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcmi2021) by July 20 July 31, 2021, 23:59 AoE.
  • The Program Committee will communicate decisions for proposals by July 30 August 20, 2021.
  • If accepted, you will be asked to make final submission of abstract and presentation files by August 30th September 10th, 2021.
  • Each presenter will have 10 minutes to give a presentation then have an opportunity to answer questions.

Please visit the DCMI Conference 2021 website (https://www.dublincore.org/conferences/2021/) for further information.

Important dates:

  • July 20, 2021 July 31, 2021: Submissions are due.
  • July 30, 2021 August 20, 2021: Notification of acceptance
  • August 30, 2021 September 10, 2021: Final submission of abstracts and presentation files
  • October 04-15, 2021 DCMI-2021 Virtual Conference

Student forum co-chairs:

You may contact Student forum co-chairs for further clarification:

  • Joseph Kiplangat, Moi University, Kenya (jkngetich [at] yahoo.co.uk)
  • Ruhua Huang, Wuhan University, China (rhhuang [at] whu.edu.cn)
  • Nishad Thalhath, University of Tsukuba, Japan
    (nishad [at] slis.tsukuba.ac.jp)