International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications:
Metadata Harmonization: Bridging Languages of Description
Bridging Languages of Description: Would be hard to think of a more apt description of topic maps in a metadata context.
21-23 September 2011, The Hague, Netherlands
“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.”[1] 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.
[1] Nilsson, Mikael. (2010). From Interoperability to Harmonization in Metadata Standardization: Designing an Evolvable Framework for Metadata Harmonization. Dissertation. KTH School of Computer Science and Communication. Stockholm, Sweden. http://kmr.nada.kth.se/papers/SemanticWeb/FromInteropToHarm-MikaelsThesis.pdf
Important dates:
Submission Deadline: 16 April 2011 – Extended 30 April 2011, see: DC-2011 Extended Deadline
Author Notification: 18 June 2011
Final Copy 23 July 2011
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
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A couple of notes for veteran topic map folks:
First, the conference is in the Hague, a truly remarkable place to visit so add one or two days to your trip to take a walk about the town. You won’t regret it.
Second, do note that the dissertation cited in the CFP doesn’t cite topic maps once in 235 pages. And concludes that RDF is the answer to semantic integration.
A rather remarkable claim considering RDF can’t distinguish between a locator and an identifier. Just so you know where to start the conversation.
Think of it as a missionary sort of adventure.
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