In London, 26-27 April  2012 -- a DCMI meeting and seminar on semweb & libraries. -Jodi

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> Subject: Major conference on libraries and the Semantic Web, 26-27 April 2012 - Second announcement
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> Registration for the Seminar marking the five years of progress in library
> linked data since the “London Meeting” of 2007 will open shortly; a
> separate announcement will be made for registration and housing
> information. In parallel, agendas for the DCMI meetings preceding the
> Seminar are being developed by the DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group
> and the DCMI Vocabulary Management Community. The venue for both days is
> the British Library, St. Pancras, London.
> 
> We wish to bring you up to date with the detail of the Seminar and meetings
> so that you can prepare for early registration, as places are limited.
> 
> While still awaiting a few confirmations, we are pleased to announce a
> preliminary list of speakers for the Seminar, which includes:
>    Barbara Tillett, Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA
> (JSC)
>    Robina Claphan, Europeana
>    Mirna Willer, IFLA ISBD Review Group
>    Patricia 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 GBP 120 (including VAT), which
> includes lunch and refreshments for two breaks. The DCMI meetings are free
> and open to anyone, but we have very limited space and will require
> registration.  The DCMI meetings on the 26th will begin at 9:30, beginning
> with the Bibliographic Metadata Task Group [1] from 9:30-12:30 and the
> Vocabulary Management Community [2] from 14:00-17:00.  The Seminar on the
> 27th begins at 9:00.
> 
> Diane Hillmann (Moderator, DCMI Vocabulary Management Community; Co-Chair,
> DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group)
> Gordon Dunsire (Co-Chair, DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group)
> 
> [1] http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Bibliographic_Metadata_Task_Group
> [2] http://dublincore.org/groups/vocabulary-management/
>