News from 2008

The online registration for DC-2008, to be held from 22 through 26 September in Berlin, is now open. An early bird discount will be available until 31 July 2008. Please go to the registration page for more information on the conference fees and for access to the online procedure.

After almost five years of service, Robina Clayphan of the British Library has stepped down as moderator of the DCMI Libraries Community. The DCMI Directorate is pleased to announce that Christine Frodl of the German National Library and Stefanie Rhle of the State and University Library Gttingen have agreed to co-moderate the group. We want to thank Robina for all the work she has done over the years and wish Christine and Stefanie success in their new role.

A DCMI Registry Task Group has been set up with the primary aims of developing shared functional requirements and inter-registry interoperability issues. This group is currently recruiting participants. Those with an interest in metadata schema registries, terminology registries, ontology registries and metadata vocabulary management are invited to visit the Task Group's Wiki for further information, news, upcoming events and opportunities to contribute.

The online registration for DC-2008, to be held from 22 through 26 September in Berlin, will open soon. An early bird discount will be available until 15 July 2008. Please check the registration page at the conference Web site for further announcements.

The preliminary program for DC-2008 is now available. There are four keynote speakers on the program: On 23 September Kurt Mehlhorn (Max-Planck-Institut fr Informatik) and Jennifer Trant (Archives Museum Informatics); on 24 September Ute Schwens (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek); and on 25 September Paul Miller (Talis). Apart from the 12 papers, 8 project reports and 12 posters that have been accepted, there will be Tutorials on Monday 22 September, 18 workshop sessions on Tuesday 23, Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 September, and six seminars on Friday 26 September. The final program will be published in early July 2008.

The National Library Board Singapore, a DCMI Affiliate since 2005, has extended its Affiliation until 2011.

Preparations for DC-2008, to be held in Berlin from 22 though 26 September 2008, are progressing well. In addition to the two keynote speakers already announced, Kurt Mehlhorn of Max Planck Society and Ute Schwens of the German National Library, the organizing committee has found Paul Miller of Talis willing to give a keynote at the conference. The paper review process has been completed. Of the 70 submissions received, 12 full papers, 8 project reports and 12 posters have been accepted. The authors of the accepted papers, reports and posters have been notified. In early June, a first preliminary program will be published on the conference Web site. At the same time, online registration will open with early bird discounts until 15 July 2008. Please refer to the conference Web site for further news and announcements.

Siderean Software, Inc., a Los Angeles-based semantic search company, has joined the British Library in stepping forward to assist in funding the DCMI/RDA Task Group. "The efforts of the library community in developing next-generation standards for cataloging metadata has the potential to inform the work of the Semantic Web community in ways that go far beyond its application to libraries," said Bradley Allen, Founder and CTO of Siderean. "Siderean is pleased to be able to help out by providing funding assistance for the DCMI/RDA project." See also information on the DCMI Partnership Program.

Public Comment on the Working Draft "Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles" is now closed. Comments received will be further discussed on the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list.

The National Library of Finland, the first organization to join the DCMI Affiliate Program in 2003, has extended its Affiliation until 2011.