[Sigia-l] OSCOM Talk on DublinCore metadata and CMSs

[Martin Langhoff]

I am happy to announce that my talk on implementing DC metadata in the 
context of Open Source Content Management Systems will be part of the 
upcoming OSCOM 3 Conference.

The talk will focus on the shortcomings in most Open Source Software 
(OSS) Content Management Systems/Frameworks when it comes to DC 
metadata, and different solutions to them. The talk is based on 
experience learnt in several projects that had a strong commitment to DC 
metadata, in particular TKI <http://tki.org.nz/> and NZ's eGovernment 
website <http://www.govt.nz/>.

You can find the outline of the talk here 
<http://www.oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/Proposals/langhoff_dublincore_midgard.html>, 
and the full program here 
<http://www.oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/Program/>.

I will be soon asking for feedback on my slides and support material. 
This is just another way to contribute to the conference, and your 
comments will be appreciated. If you feel this is inappropriate on this 
list, please let me know.

You can also participate blogging (please trackback to 
<http://blog.oscom.org/>) and generally spreading the word in related 
mailing lists, and potentially interested ears.

And coming. Registration is open, and I would like to encourage members 
of this community to consider participating. More info at 
<http://www.oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/Registration.html>.



About the Third Open Source Content Management Systems Conference
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The theme of OSCOM 3 is "Leveraging content with CMS: authoring and 
syndication towards the semantic web" 
<http://www.oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/Proposals/>. The conference 
will be held in May 28-30 in the Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Boston.

The theme has several aspects:

     * Content Annotation
     * Content Authoring API
     * Blogger API
     * RDF
     * Dublin Core
     * Multichannel publishing
     * Content discovery
     * Searching
     * Semantic web in general
     * Copyrights, Creative Commons
     * Digital Rights Management

The Open Source CMS community is rich and varied with many projects such 
as OpenCMS, Zope, Midgard, PostNuke, Bitflux, Wyona, Cofax, Drupal, 
RedHat CCM, and many others. In addition, market awareness is rapidly 
growing, with several Open Source CMS being mentioned favorably in 
recent Gartner reports, among others.

Registration is open. Please come! 
<http://www.oscom.org/Conferences/Cambridge/Registration.html>.

regards,






martin