[SigLT-L] Dublin Core 2003 Conference in Seattle

[Kathleen Forsythe]

**Please excuse cross-posting**

Registration is open for the 2003 Dublin Core Conference to be held in
Seattle, WA, Sept. 28 - Oct. 2. The conference will provide participants
with a forum for intensive interaction with researchers, practitioners and
decision makers concerned with advances in metadata for resource discovery,
retrieval, management and use. The DC-2003 Conference theme "Supporting
Communities of Discourse and Practice: Metadata Research & Applications"
provides a framework in which  researchers can share inquiries, research
methodologies, and results from their latest studies and in which system
implementers can share application developments and display their tools
through the DC-Lab. The scope of matters addressed by the contributed
papers is not confined to the Dublin Core metadata element set but extends
across all metadata schemas and application domains. The Conference Track
will present refereed papers on metadata and related areas of concern
including the following:

    * Conceptual models and fundamental principles
    * Globalization and localization
    * Community or domain metadata (statistical, government, geo-spatial, etc.)
    * Enterprise metadata
    * Metadata registries and registry services
    * Interoperability among metadata systems and standards
    * Search engines and metadata
    * Implementation of systems and tools for metadata applications

In addition to the main conference, two pre-conference workshops on
metadata related topics will be offered on September 28:

Metadata Primer - you will learn metadata's role in resource discovery,
management, and interoperability. The basic questions -- "What is
metadata?"  "What can metadata do?" "How does XML figure into this?"  --
will be covered through interactive lectures and hands on computer
lab-based mini-projects. The primer will be team-taught by members of the
community of the Information School of the University of Washington and
other select instructors who actively work with metadata.

Metadata and Search - emphasis will be on internal or site search
technology as opposed to external, Internet or web search technology
(although some technology is applicable to both internal and external
search applications). There will be presentations by experts,
implementation case studies, demonstrations by search technology vendors,
and lots of time for Q&A. Organized by the DCMI Global Corporate Circles
Special Interest Group.

For online registration and further information about the workshops and
conference, see:
http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/index.html


Kathleen Forsythe
Member, DC2003 Publicity Committee
Electronic Resources Cataloging Librarian
University of Washington Libraries
forsythe at u.washington.edu