News from 2015 on DCMI

Webinar: Linked Data Fragments: Querying multiple Linked Data sources on the Web

Wed, 09 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Join Ruben Verborgh, researcher in semantic hypermedia at Ghent University, for a DCMI/ASIST joint webinar on the Linked Data Fragments family of technologies. The dream of Linked Data: if we just get our data online, the promised Semantic Web will eventually rise. Everybody will be able to query our data with minimal effort. We will be able to integrate data from multiple sources on the fly. Everything will just work and data will flow freely ever after. Well, that hasn't really happen yet. Even though we published billions of triples on the Web, there are few places that reliably let us execute queries over them. Integration is still very limited. This webinar introduces you to the Linked Data Fragments family of technologies, which take a much more pragmatic view of the Web of Data. Whereas one of the main problems with the Semantic Web is currently the high publication cost of data (with unknown return), Linked Data Fragments proposes shifting the complexity of querying from the server to the client. This makes publishing Linked Data affordable and realistic on the Web. For additional information about the webinar and to register, visit the DCMI Webinars homepage at http://dublincore.org/resources/#2015verborgh.

UNESP joins DCMI as Institutional Member

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DCMI is pleased to announce that São Paulo State University (Universidade Estadual PaulistaUnesp) has joined DCMI as an Institutional Member. Unesp is one of the largest and most important Brazilian universities, with distinguished achievements in teaching, research and extension services. Unesp is supported by State funds and along with USP (Universidade de São Paulo) and Unicamp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) offers free public higher education in São Paulo State. Unesp was founded in 1976 and is the most successful model of a multicampus university in Brazil supporting intense and diversified activities in São Paulothe most developed State in Brazil. Unesp's influence is recognized through the level of regional development where its campuses are locatedone in the State capital and 23 others strategically distributed throughout the State. Unesp has appointed Flávia Bastos, Coordinator of Libraries, General Coordination at the São Paulo State University, as its representative to the DCMI Governing Board. For information on your organization joining DCMI, see the membership page at http://dublincore.org/support/.

DCMI Webinar: Two-Part Series on Schema.org with Richard Wallis

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Join independent consultant Richard Wallis, former Technology Evangelist for OCLC and currently working with Google on Schema.org, for this two part, in-depth webinar mini-series look at Schema.org titled "Schema.org in Two Parts: From Use to Extension". The webinar series examines the use of schema.org and its extension in the bibliographic and wider domains. Part 1 of the series titled "Fit For a Bibliographic Purpose" on 18 November 2015: (a) traces the history of the Schema.org vocabulary, plus its applicability to the bibliographic domain, and (b) the Schema Bib Extend W3C Community Group--why it was set up, how it approached the creation of bibliographic extension proposals, and how those proposals were shaped. The second more technical webinar in the series on 2 December 2015 explains the Schema.org extension mechanism for external and reviewed/hosted extensions, and their relationship to the core vocabulary. Wallis will take an in-depth look at, demonstrate, and share experiences in designing, and creating a potential extension to the Schema.org vocabulary. He will step through the process of creating the required vocabulary definition and examples files on a local system using a few simple tools, then sharing them on a publicly visible temporary cloud instance before proposing to the Schema.org group. For more information and to register for this free webinar, visit http://dublincore.org/resources/#2015wallis.

Joseph Tennis begins role as Chair of the DCMI Governing Board

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Joseph Tennis became Chair of the DCMI Governing Board and Paul Walk its Chair-Elect during the closing ceremony of DC-2015 in São Paulo, Brazil. Eric Childress became Immediate Past Chair and Michael Crandall retired from the Governing Board and his role as Immediate Past Chair. Tennis will be Chair of the Governing Board and its Executive Committee through DCMI's Annual Meeting and International Conference in Copenhagen in October 2016. Tennis is also the President of the International Society for Knowledge Management (ISKO) and is serving a four year term from 2014-2018. Information about the DCMI Governing Board and its members can be found at http://dublincore.org/about/oversight/.

DC-2016 to take place in Copenhagen, 13-16 October 2016

Wed, 09 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DC-2016 will be collocated with the ASIS&T 2016 Annual Meeting in Copenhagen. The four days of DC-2016 will be comprised of: (1) pre- and post-conference full- and half-day Workshops and Tutorials; (2) a peer reviewed Technical Program of Papers, Project Reports and Posters; (3) a Professional Program of Special Sessions and Panels and Best Practice Posters and Demonstrations addressing innovation in metadata design, implementation, management, and use; and (4) the DCMI Annual Meeting. DC-2016 conference will take place 13-16 October 2016 and will overlap the ASIS&T 2016 Annual Meeting running 14-18 October 2016. Both conferences will be held at the Crown Plaza, Copenhagen Towers. Mark your calendars!

DCMI RDF Application Profile Task Group completes deliverables

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI RDF-AP aims at defining best practices for documenting application profiles, requests for handling RDF application profiles, and for RDF constraints specification and validation. The first deliverable, Report on Use Cases, reports on the case studies collected in the Task Force, their use cases and their validation requirements. The second deliverable, Report on Validation Requirements, supplements the Report on Use Cases from which the requirements were derived. The full descriptions of case studies and use cases can be found in the task group wiki. Case studies and the corresponding use cases are collected in the DCMI RDF-AP database (see DCMI RDF Application Profiles database on case studies, use cases, requirements, and solutions).

DCMI Bylaws Revisions

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Governing Board announces its GB2015-2 decision to revise the DCMI Bylaws. The major focus of the revisions is on the refactoring of roles of the Advisory Board and Directorate with regard to DCMI conferences, meetings, educational programming and Initiative outreach. The revisions are are part of the ongoing fine-tuning of the Bylaws following the major restructuring of DCMI governance in 2014. The revised Bylaws can be found at http://dublincore.org/about/bylaws/.

Japanese translation of 'Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles' published

Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DCMI is please to announce that the National Diet Library of Japan has translated "Guidelines for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles", a DCMI Recommended Resource. The link to the new Japanese translation is available on the DCMI Documents Translation page at http://dublincore.org/resources/translations/.

Final Program announced for DC-2015 in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the Conference Committee of DC-2015 in São Paulo, Brazil on 1-4 September have published the final program of the DCMI International Conference at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/schedule-15. Join us in São Paulo for an exciting agenda including papers, project reports and best practice posters and presentations. Parallel with the peer reviewed program is an array of special sessions of panels and discussions on key metadata issues, challenges and new opportunities. Pre- and post-conference Professional Program workshops round out the program by providing full-day instruction. Every year the DCMI community gathers for both its Annual Meeting and its International Conference on Dublin Core™ Metadata Applications. The work agenda of the DCMI community is broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design, implementation and best practices. While the work of the Initiative progresses throughout the year, the Annual Meeting and Conference provide the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as students and early career professionals studying and practicing the dark arts of metadata to gather face-to-face to share experiences. In addition, the gathering provides public- and private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI engaged in significant metadata work to come together to compare notes and cast a broader light into their particular metadata domain silos. Through such a gathering of the metadata "clans", DCMI advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata interoperability and harmonization. Visit the DC-2015 conference website at http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015 for additional information and to register.

Ex Libris and Elsevier join as DC-2015 sponsors

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Conference host UNESP and DCMI are pleased to announce that Ex Libris and Elsevier are now among the sponsors of DC-2015 in São Paulo, Brazil, 1-4 September 2015. Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services and a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions. Ex Libris is a leading provider of library automation solutions, offering the only comprehensive product suite for the discovery, management, and distribution of all materials--print, electronic, and digital. For information about how your organization can becoming a DC-2015 sponsor, see http://bit.ly/DC2015-Sponsors.

DC-2015 Early Bird registration closes 31 July 2015!

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Early Bird registration for DC-2015 in São Paulo, Brazil closes on 31 July 2015. In addition to Keynote Speakers Paul Walk of EDINA and Ana Alice Baptista of the University of Minho, there is a full Technical Program of peer-reviewed papers, project reports and posters, as well as a Professional Program of full-day Workshops and Conference Special Sessions. For more about the conference, visit the conference website at http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015.

DC-2015 Preliminary Program published

Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the Conference Committee of DC-2015 have published the preliminary program of the DCMI International Conference at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/schedule-15. The conference days--Wednesday and Thursday, 2-3 September--feature keynote speakers, Paul Walk and Ana Alice Baptista, paper sessions, project reports, posters (including best practice posters and demonstrations), and an array of special sessions. Tuesday and Friday are pre- and post-conference, full-day workshop events: "Development of Metadata Application Profiles", "Training the Trainers for Linked Data", and "Elaboration of Controlled Vocabularies Using SKOS". Special Session include "Schema.org Structured Data on the Web--An Extending Influence" sponsored by OCLC, "Current Developments in Metadata for Research Data" sponsored by the DCMI Science Metadata Community, and "Cultural Heritage Linked Data". The titles and abstracts of the Technical Program are available at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/abstracts-15. Registration is open: http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg15. Day registrations are available.

DCMI Webinar: OpenAIRE Guidelines: Promoting Repositories Interoperability and Supporting Open Access Funder Mandates

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Source Managers provide recommendations and best practices for encoding of bibliographic information in OAI metadata. They have adopted established standards for different classes of content providers: (1) Dublin Core™ for textual publications in institutional and thematic repositories; (2) DataCite Metadata Kernel for research data repositories; and (3) CERIF-XML for Current Research Information Systems. The principle of these guidelines is to improve interoperability of bibliographic information exchange between repositories, e-journals, CRIS and research infrastructures. They are a means to help content providers to comply with funders Open Access policies, e.g. the European Commission Open Access mandate in Horizon2020, and to standardize the syntax and semantics of funder/project information, open access status, links between publications and datasets. Presenters Pedro Príncipe, University of Minho, Portugal, and Jochen Schirrwagen, Bielefeld University Library, Germany, will provide an overview of the guidelines, implementation support in major platforms and tools for validation. Webinar Date: Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 10:00am-11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/pprincipe). For additional information and to register, visit http://dublincore.org/resources/#2015principe.

DCMI Webinar: Implementing Linked Data in Low-Resource Conditions

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Typical small and medium-size institutions have to deal with constrained resources, which often hamper the possibilities of making their data publicly available. Johannes Keizer and Caterina Caracciolo of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization will provide an overview of bottlenecks that institutions typically face when entering the world of open and linked data, and will provide recommendations on how to proceed. They will discuss the use of standard and linked vocabularies to produce linked data, especially in the area of agriculture. They will describe AGRISAs, a web-based resource linking agricultural datasets as an example of linked data application resulting from the collaboration of small institutions. They will also mention AgriDrupal, a Drupal distribution that supports the production and consumption of linked datasets. For additional information and to register, visit http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/DCMI_Handbook/webinars#keizer.

DC-2015 Professional Program Announced

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DCMI and the DC-2015 host, UNESP, have published the abstracts for events in the Professional Program for the September conference in São Paulo, Brazil. The Professional Program includes full-day, hands-on workshops on developing application profiles, transforming legacy data to Linked Data, and development of SKOS vocabularies. In addition, there are an array of Special Topic session for professional development in key areas of metadata design and best practice. The abstracts for the events in the DC-2015 Professional Program can be found on the conference homepage at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2015/schedConf/#profProg.

Paul Walk Ana Alice Baptista named DC-2015 Keynote Speakers

Fri, 15 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The São Paulo State University (UNESP), host of DC-2015, is pleased to announce that Ana Alice Baptista, and Paul Walk will deliver keynote addresses at DC-2015 in São Paulo, Brazil. Ana Alice Baptista is a Professor in the Information Systems Department and a Researcher at the ALGORITMI Center, both at University of Minho, Portugal. Paul Walk is Head of Technology Strategy and Planning at EDINA, the Jisc centre for digital expertise and online service delivery at the University of Edinburgh. For additional information, see the Speakers page on the Conference website at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/speakers-2015.

DC-2015 registration is now open

Fri, 15 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Online registration for DC-2015 is now open at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/reg15. The conference and DCMI Annual Meeting is scheduled for 1-4 September in São Paulo, Brazil. This year's theme is "Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital Humanities". The need for structured metadata to support ubiquitous access across the Web to the treasure troves of resources spanning cultures, in science, and in the digital humanities is now common knowledge among information systems designers and implementers. Structured metadata expressed through languages of description make it possible for us to 'speak' about the contents of our treasure troves. But, like all human languages, our languages of description both enable and isolate. The push to break out of the isolation of the metadata silos in which professionals inevitably design, implement and manage metadata in order to discover the intersections of our treasure troves drives much of today's discourse and emerging practice in metadata. The meeting in São Paulo is intended to advance the metadata discourse and practice behind this push to intersect. More information about the conference can be found at http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015

DCMI Webinar: Digital Preservation Metadata and Improvements to PREMIS in Version 3.0

Mon, 04 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This webinar with Angela Dappert on 27 May gives a brief overview of why digital preservation metadata is needed, shows examples of digital preservation metadata, shows how PREMIS can be used to capture this metadata, and illustrates some of the changes that will be available in version 3.0. The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is the international standard for metadata to support the preservation of digital objects and ensure their long-term usability. Developed by an international team of experts, PREMIS is implemented in digital preservation projects around the world, and support for PREMIS is incorporated into a number of commercial and open-source digital preservation tools and systems. The PREMIS Editorial Committee coordinates revisions and implementation of the standard, which consists of the Data Dictionary, an XML schema, and supporting documentation. The PREMIS Data Dictionary is currently in version 2.2. A new major release 3.0 is due out this summer. More information and registration is available at http://dublincore.org/resources/#2015dappert.

Become a DC-2015 sponsor!

Mon, 04 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The São Paulo State University and the Conference Committee for DC-2015 in São Paulo, Brazil in September are pleased to offer sponsors the opportunity to present themselves directly to the conference participants and to a global audience beyond the conference venue. Information regarding the categories of sponsorship and how to become a DC-2015 Sponsor can be found at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/cfs.

National Diet Library of Japan publishes translations of key DCMI specifications

Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

DCMI is please to announce that the National Diet Library, the sole national library in Japan, has translated the DCMI Metadata Terms and the Singapore Framework for Dublin Core™ Application Profiles into Japanese. The links to the new Japanese translations, as well as others are available on the DCMI Documents Translation page at http://dublincore.org/resources/translations/.