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In London, 26-27 April 2012 -- a DCMI meeting and seminar on semweb & libraries. -Jodi Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: [log in to unmask] > From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 20 March 2012 13:57:01 GMT > To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] > Subject: Major conference on libraries and the Semantic Web, 26-27 April 2012 - Second announcement > Reply-To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > > 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/ >