- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:24:08 -0400
- To: semantic-web@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
SWIG, This is just a reminder to get writing for DC-2005, if you haven't already been. This year the Dublin Core conference is taking metadata vocabulary management as its central theme, and the CFP explicitly calls out liaison to the W3C SW Activity and the RDF/OWL ontology world as a priority. This is a great opportunity to build up richer connections between the Semantic Web community and others in the library, metadata and taxonomy world. See http://dc2005.uc3m.es/cfp/callforpaper.asp for details. Hope to see you in Madrid (12-15 Sept)... BTW If there are enough SWIG folks there, perhaps we might organise some kind of low-key side event, eg. a 'birds of a feather' session? SWIG meeting? If people are interested I can investigate the options.... cheers, Dan (this is also a reminder to members of the www-rdf-interest@w3.org list to subscribe to the new SWIG list, and for people to use that list instead. You can subscribe by sending mail to semantic-web-request@w3.org with 'subscribe' in subject line. details at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2005Feb/0046.html ). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers (Open until 15 April 2005) Metadata Vocabularies in Practice Metadata based on standards such as Dublin Core are a key component of information environments from scientific repositories to corporate intranets and from business and publishing to education and e-government. DC-2005 - the fifth in a series of conferences previously held in Tokyo (2001), Florence (2002), Seattle (2003), and Shanghai (2004) - will examine the practicalities of maintaining and using controlled sets of terms ("vocabularies") in the context of the Web. DC-2005 aims at bringing together several distinct communities of vocabulary users: -- Users of metadata standards such as Dublin Core and Learning Object Metadata (LOM), with their sets of descriptive "elements" and "properties" -- The W3C Semantic Web Activity, which has formalized the notion of "ontologies" -- Users of Knowledge Organization Systems, which encompass value-space structures such as "thesauri" and "subject classifications" -- The world of corporate intranets, which use "taxonomies" These diverse communities share common problems, from the the use of identifiers for terms to practices for developing, maintaining, versioning, translating, and adapting standard vocabularies for specific local needs. Topics of particular relevance include: -- Publication of vocabularies as formal schemas -- Community processes of vocabulary development -- Vocabulary maintenance and workflows -- Corporate enterprise metadata and taxonomies -- Formal ontologies and Semantic Web frameworks -- Application profiles and vocabulary adaptations -- Metadata normalization and crosswalks -- Versioning of vocabularies -- Use of term identifiers and dereferencing practice -- Vocabulary registries and registry services -- Multilingual vocabularies and translations -- Vocabularies and accessibility The Program Committee would like to solicit contributions of the following types: -- Regular Papers (8 to 10 pages) either describe innovative original work in detail or provide critical, well-referenced overviews of key developments or good practice in the areas outlined above -- Short papers (2 to 4 pages) describe a specific model, application, or activity in a concise format -- Workshop proposals (1 page) define the topic of workshop session, identify organizers, and describe a process for inviting and reviewing contributions Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and published both in print and electronically in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference by at least one of their authors. Deadlines and important dates Papers submission: 1 April 2005 [extended to 15 April] Acceptance notification: 1 June 2005 Camera-ready copy due: 1 July 2005 Conference language The official language of the conference is English, but we will provide simultaneous translation (English-Spanish) for keynotes, tutorials, and plenary sessions. ----- End forwarded message -----
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