DC-2004:Last Call For Participation

[xiangying Lou]

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                    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.