From announce at dublincore.net Sun Mar 5 07:29:25 2017 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 04:29:25 -0800 Subject: [sigCR] DCMI Webinar: Data on the Web Best Practices: Challenges and Benefits Message-ID: *******PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******* *Data on the Web Best Practices: Challenges and Benefits* *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar* *===========================================================* *:: Presenters:* Bernadette Farias L?scio, Newton Calegari, Caroline Burle dos Santos Guimar?es *:: Times:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/20170406-en) *:: Date:* Thursday, 6 April 2017 *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017DataBP *===========================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* There is a growing interest in the publication and consumption of data on the Web. Government and non-governmental organizations already provide a variety of data on the Web, some open, others with access restrictions, covering a variety of domains such as education, economics, e-commerce and scientific data. Developers, journalists, and others manipulate this data to create visualizations and perform data analysis. Experience in this area reveals that a number of important issues need to be addressed in order to meet the requirements of both publishers and data consumers. In this webinar we will discuss the key challenges faced by publishers and data consumers when sharing data on the Web. We will also introduce the W3C Best Practices set (https://www.w3.org/TR/dwbp/)to address these challenges. Finally, we will discuss the benefits of engaging data publishers in the use of Best Practices, as well as improving the way data sets are made available on the Web. *ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:* *Bernadette Farias L?scio* holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. She worked as an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Cear? and did postdoctoral studies at the University of Manchester. Since 2010, she has been an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. In recent years, she has provided consulting services to W3C Brazil and to the City Hall of Recife in projects in the Open Data area. It is one of the publishers of Data on the Web Best Practices, a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which offers good practices related to the publication and use of data on the Web. Its main areas of interest are: Web Data, Data Open, Semantic Web, Data Integration, Web of Things and Big Data. *Caroline Burle dos Santos Guimar?es* is responsible for the Institutional Relations of the Center for Studies on Web Technologies (Ceweb.br) and W3C Brasil. He is a specialist in Negotiation for the Get?lio Vargas Foundation and a Master in International Relations from San Tiago Dantas. He is a member of the Center for Studies and International Analysis and Fellow of the OAS Open Government Program in the Americas. It is one of the publishers of the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices document. Research on open government, international relations and foreign policy, with experience in the work of subnational governments in the area of web, open data and Internet governance. *Newton Calegari* holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's Degree in Digital Intelligence and Design Technologies (TIDD) from the Pontifical Catholic University of S?o Paulo (PUC-SP). He is a project leader at the Center for the Study of Web Technologies at NIC.br (Ceweb.br) and at the W3C Brazil office. He is one of the editors of the W3C Data on the Web Best Practices recommendation. Research and work in the area of Semantic Web, Open Web Platform, standardization and emerging Web technologies. From MGill at getty.edu Wed Mar 15 13:55:48 2017 From: MGill at getty.edu (Melissa Gill) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:55:48 +0000 Subject: [sigCR] Knowledge Organization within the Museum Domain CFP Message-ID: (please excuse any cross-postings) Call for Proposals: Knowledge Organization within the Museum Domain Special issue of Knowledge Organization Guest editor: Melissa Gill Knowledge Organization (KO) invites proposals for a special issue focused on knowledge organization within the museum domain. Museums, like libraries and archives, are information institutions for material culture. Museum knowledge organization is object- and context-centric, focusing on the unique instantiation of a particular object and its historical and cultural relationships. Although the objects collected by museums of art, natural history, anthropology, science, and technology are diverse in nature, these institutions find commonality in their treatment of objects as entities whose characteristics and contexts evolve. Museums document information about an object as it changes over time, within and outside of the particular institution?s custody. The object?s creation, acquisition, exhibition, conservation, and deaccession are captured and documented. Furthermore, museum labels, didactic text, and publications produce additional knowledge about objects. The information record, in addition to the original object itself, is important for stewardship and interpretation. The heterogeneous, iterative, idiosyncratic, and sometimes subjective nature of museum objects has over the years manifested in a non-standardized approach to knowledge organization. Over the years efforts have been made to standardize museum data within and across domains, such as Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO), Categories for the Description of Works of Art, (CDWA), SPECTRUM, Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO), Darwin Core, and the CIDOC CRM. The increasing focus on digital engagement coupled with open access initiatives has intensified the need for metadata and its standardization in the museum domain. In this special issue, KO aims at addressing the organization of knowledge in the museum from a diversity of perspectives; contextual, case-specific, theoretical, empirical, historical as well as contemporary perspectives, etc., are all relevant as long as they add value to the understanding of the museum domain as a knowledge organizing environment. Please submit abstracts of approximately 500 words to the editor of this special issue at mgill at getty.edu by April 15, 2017. Full papers should fall within the range 6,000-10,000 words (see author instructions, http://www.isko.org/instructions.htm). Papers will undergo peer review. Timeline Deadline for abstracts: April 15, 2017 Notification to authors: May 15, 2017 Deadline for submission of full papers: June 15, 2017 For questions about this special issue, please contact the guest editor. All inquiries about the journal and manuscripts should be directed to the editor-in-chief, Richard P. Smiraglia, Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (ko at isko.org). Knowledge Organization (ISSN 0943-7444) is the official journal of ISKO, International Society for Knowledge Organization (http://www.isko.org/). It is published eight times each year by Ergon Verlag of W?rzburg, Germany.