[Web4lib] DC-2010 Call for Papers

[Julie Allinson]

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DC-2010 Call for Papers
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International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications:
"Making Metadata Work Harder: Celebrating 15 Year of Dublin Core"

20-22 October 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Co-located with the Annual Meeting of ASIS&T (24-27 October 2010)

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DEADLINES & IMPORTANT DATES:

* Papers/reports/posters submission: 2 April 2010
* Acceptance notification: 14 May 2010
* Camera-ready copy due: 11 June 2010
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DC-2010 marks the 15th anniversary of Dublin Core and the 10th year of 
the Annual Conference. To celebrate and reflect on the past and future, 
conference participants will engage in investigations in both research 
and application entailing advances that make metadata work harder in 
ways beyond the originally identified need for better resource 
discovery. The DCMI Abstract Model, the refined concept of Application 
Profiles and the initial Description Set Profile specification, 
represent an inflection point in the trajectory of metadata design and 
deployment in the service of human information needs. But all is not 
perfect and we have much to learn from sharing experience. DC-2010, will 
take stock of progress, look to the future and celebrate the broad scope 
of research and applied work in making metadata work harder.

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, normalization, improvement and mapping
--Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
--Application profiles
--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
--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
--Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)
--Search engines and metadata
--Semantic Web metadata and applications
--Vocabulary registries and registry services

SUBMISSIONS

Authors wishing to submit papers, reports, or poster proposals may do so 
through the DCMI Peer Review System at 
http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/index.php/pubs/. Author registration and 
instructions for the submission process appear under the “Information 
for Authors” link. Author Guidelines for full papers, project reports 
and posters/demonstrations are available through the DCMI Peer Review 
System. All submissions to the DC-2010 Conference Proceedings will be 
peer-reviewed by the International Program Committee. All submissions 
must be in English. Accepted submissions will be published in the 
official electronic Conference Proceedings. Unless previously arranged, 
accepted papers, project reports and posters must be presented in 
Pittsburgh by at least one of their authors.

All submitting authors must provide basic information regarding current 
professional positions and affiliations as a condition of acceptance and 
publication.

FULL PAPERS (8-10 pages)

Full papers either describe innovative work in detail or provide 
critical, well-referenced overviews of key developments or good practice 
in the areas outlined above. Full papers will be assessed using the 
following criteria:

--Originality of the approach to implementation
--Quality of the contribution to the implementation community
--Significance of the results presented
--Clarity of presentation

PROJECT REPORTS (4-5 pages)

Project reports describe a specific model, application, or activity in a 
concise, prescribed format. Project reports will be assessed using the 
following criteria:

--Conciseness and completeness of technical description
--Usability of the technical description by other potential implementers
--Clarity of presentation

POSTERS & DEMONSTRATIONS (1-2 pages)

Posters are for the presentation of projects or research under 
development or late-breaking results. Poster proposals should consist of 
a one-two page extended abstract. Posters will be assessed using the 
following criteria:

--Concise statement of research or project goals and milestones
--Significance of the research or project
--Framing of key barriers and future research
--Statement of results and accomplishments
--Clarity of presentation

Accepted posters will be published in the Conference Proceedings and 
displayed at the conference. Unless otherwise arranged, accepted posters 
must be presented in Pittsburgh by at least one of their authors. 
However, with prior arrangement, posters may be included in the 
proceedings and presented by means of video ranging from 4-10 minutes in 
length and uploaded to YouTube with the link supplied at the time the 
poster is submitted. Asynchronous mechanisms for participant/author 
communications will be provided.

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE CHAIR
--Stuart A. Sutton, Information School of the University of Washington, 
USA (sasutton at uw.edu)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
--Diane I. Hillmann, Information Institute of Syracuse, USA 
(metadata.maven at gmail.com)
--Michael Lauruhn, Taxonomy Strategies, USA 
(mlauruhn at taxonomystrategies.com)

WORKSHOP CONVENOR
--Liddy Nevile, La Trobe University, AU (liddy at sunriseresearch.org)

TUTORIAL CHAIR
--Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA (mzeng at kent.edu)

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Julie Allinson  <ja546 at york.ac.uk>
Digital Library Manager
University Library & Archives, J.B. Morrell Library
University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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