The Hague, 10 February 2011

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DC-2011 Call for Papers

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The International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2011 "Metadata Harmonization: Bridging Languages of Description" is taking place 21-23 September 2011, in The Hague, Netherlands

The Call for Papers has been published.

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DEADLINES & IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Deadline: 16 April 2011

Author Notification: 18 June 2011

Final Copy: 23 July 2011

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Metadata is an increasingly central tool in the current web environment, enabling large-scale, distributed management of resources. Recent years has seen a growth in interaction between previously relatively isolated metadata communities, driven by the need for cross-domain collaboration and exchange. However, metadata standards have not been able to meet the needs of interoperability between independent standardization communities. For this reason the notion of metadata harmonization, defined as interoperability of combinations of metadata specifications, has arisen as a core issue for the future of web-based metadata. Resting at the heart of application profiles, metadata harmonization presents a little understood, but critical challenge in design of languages of description. DC-2011 will explore the conceptual and practical issues of design when the language solution calls for cross-fertilization from different metadata specifications.

Beyond the conference theme, papers, reports, and poster submissions are welcome on a wide range of metadata topics, such as:

• Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
• Metadata quality (methods, tools, and practices)
• Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
• Application profiles
• Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)
• Metadata interoperability across domains, languages, time, structures, and scales.
• Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, curation, institutional repositories, publishing)
• 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, e-Science and grid applications
• Social tagging and user participation in building metadata
• Usage data (paradata/attention metadata)
• 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
• Search engines and metadata
• Linked data and the Semantic Web (metadata and applications)
• Vocabulary registries and registry services

SUBMISSIONS

All submissions for papers, reports, poster abstracts, and community workshop and special session must do so through the DCMI Peer Review System at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2011/schedConf/cfp (see submission link at bottom of page). Author registration with the peer review system and instructions for the submission process appear under the "Information for Authors" link.

All submissions must be in English.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the International Program Committee.

Read the full Call for Papers on the conference website.