[Sigia-l] Fwd: DC-2004FLast Call For Participation

[Sarah A. Rice]

>                    Last Call For Participation
>    **Early Bird period extended until September 20
>
>               DC-2004: International Conference on
>               Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
>
>                      11-14 October 2004
>                       Shanghai, China
>
>                 http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/
>
>
>Host:          Shanghai Library -
>                http://www.library.sh.cn/new-eng/
>Co-organizers: Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences -
>                http://www.las.ac.cn/
>                National Science and Technology Library of China -
>                http://www.nstl.gov.cn/
>                Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) -
>                http://dublincore.org/
>
>Online Registration has opened for DC-2004 at
>http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/regedit/submit1.asp.
>
>Metadata based on standards such as Dublin Core is a key
>component of information environments from scientific
>repositories to corporate intranets and from business and
>publishing to education and e-government.
>
>DC-2004 -- the fourth in a series of conferences previously
>held in Tokyo, Florence, and Seattle -- will examine a broad
>range of metadata applications, especially with a view towards
>improving interoperability across boundaries of language,
>culture, and communities of practice.
>
>The Conference Program is available at
>http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/english/prog/.
>
>Conference keynotes will be held by Zhang Xiaolin of the
>Chinese Academy of Science; Eric Miller of the World-Wide Web
>Consortium; and Wayne Hodgins of Autodesk Inc.  Over thirty
>technical papers will be presented; tutorials will provide
>an introduction to metadata for non-experts; and interest
>groups and technical committees of DCMI will hold various
>meetings open to the public.
>
>On Wednesday, 13 October, DC-2004 will hold joint
>keynote sessions with the 2004 Shanghai International Library
>Forum -- see http://www.libnet.sh.cn/silf2004/ -- also hosted
>at Shanghai Library.
>
>Topics of particular relevance to this year's conference include:
>
>-- Institutional Repositories and metadata harvesting
>-- Corporate enterprise metadata
>-- Search engines and metadata
>-- Metadata for e-Learning and e-Government
>-- Application Profiles and interoperability
>-- Semantic Web tools and frameworks
>-- Globalization, localization, and multilinguality of metadata
>-- Metadata registries and registry services
>
>Anyone with an interest in these topics -- researchers and
>practitioners alike -- is invited to meet and exchange ideas
>and experiences in a pleasant and open atmosphere.
>
>Registration is at
>http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/regedit/submit1.asp.  Discounted
>Early Bird rate has been extended until 20 September, 2004.