Dear all, Apologies for cross posting. August 31 is the last day to enjoy the “Early bird” rates for the 2009 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC2009) to be held from 12 through 16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea. Participants are invited to register online at the conference Web site and book accommodation for their stay in Seoul. This year's conference focuses on the *Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data*. The main conference is taking place from Tuesday through Thursday, 13 to 15 October. Keynotes, plenary presentations and public working-group meetings will be held in parallel on topics ranging from - Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices - Metadata quality, normalization, and mapping - Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS) - Application profiles - Metadata interoperability across domains, languages, and time - Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, institutional repositories) - Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, and scientific fields) - Bibliographic standards (e.g., RDA, FRBR, subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies - Accessibility metadata - Metadata for scientific data - Metadata in e-Science and grid applications - Social tagging - Knowledge Organization Systems (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri) and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS) - Ontology design and development - Integration of metadata and ontologies Conference Web Site: http://www.dc2009.kr/ Conference Program: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uprog_01.php Registration: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php Thank you! -- Myung-Ja "MJ" Han Metadata Librarian 220 Main Library University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 1408 W. Gregory Dr. (MC-522) Urbana, IL 61801 217-333-9515 (Main Library) 217-244-7809 (Grainger)