Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting October 5th is the last day to register online via the conference websitefor the 2009 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC2009) to be held from 12 through 16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea. On-site registration will be available while the conference is in session. This year's conference focuses on the *Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data*. *DC**- 2009 Special Sessions on Linked Data* information can be found here: http://dublincore.org/workshops/dc2009/DC -2009_Special_Sessions_on_Linked_Data.pdf 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 For registration, program, accommodation information and more, please go to the links below: · DC- 2009 home page: http://www.dc2009.kr/ · Program: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uprog_01.php · Registration: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php · Accommodation: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uacco_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)