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Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: [log in to unmask] > From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 10 April 2012 09:44:05 GMT+01:00 > To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] > Subject: Five years on: major conference on libraries and the Semantic Web, 27 April 2012 - Final announcement > Reply-To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > > There are still places available for the Seminar “Five years on”, marking > the five years of progress in library linked data since the “London > Meeting” of 2007. The Seminar takes place on Friday 27 April 2012, 09.00/30 > to 17.00. The venue for the Seminar is the British Library, St. Pancras, > London. > > The final list of speakers for the Seminar includes: > > > > * Mikael Nilsson, Google > * Edmund Chamberlain, Cambridge University Library > * Alan Danskin, British Library > * Barbara Tillett, Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA > (JSC) > * Robina Claphan, Europeana > * Mirna Willer, IFLA ISBD Review Group > * Pat Riva, IFLA FRBR Review Group > * Thomas Baker, DCMI > * Gordon Dunsire, IFLA Namespaces Technical Group and DCMI > * Diane Hillmann, DCMI and Metadata Management Associates > * Owen Stephens, JISC > > The London Meeting of 31 April/1 May 2007 stimulated significant > development of Semantic Web representations of the major international > bibliographic metadata models, including IFLA’s Functional Requirements > family and the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), and > MARC as well as RDA itself. Attention is now beginning to focus on the > management and sustainability of this activity, and the development of > high-level semantic and data structures to support library applications. > > Registration for the Seminar has been set at USD 190 (including VAT), which > includes lunch and refreshments for two breaks. Further information and > online registration is available at: > > http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/BibData/fyo > > Please note that registration for the DCMI meetings on Thursday 26 April > has now closed, as all places have been taken. > > Cheers, and apologies for cross-posting. > > Diane Hillmann (Moderator, DCMI Vocabulary Management Community; Co-Chair, > DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group) > Gordon Dunsire (Co-Chair, DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group) >