DC-2014 in Austin, Texas, USA--Early Registration closing soon

***Please excuse the cross-posting***

*DC-2014: "Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural
Memory"*

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*DATES: * 8-11 October 20114
*LOCATION: *Austin, Texas, USA
*WEBSITE:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2014
*EARLY REGISTRATION CLOSE:* *6 September 2014*
*REGISTRATION: *
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/registration-2014
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*It is just under two weeks until the closing of Early Registration for
DC-2014*, the International Conference on Dublin Core & Metadata
Applications.  If you work or study in any sector of the metadata
ecosystem, you will not want to miss DC-2014 in Austin, Texas.  In addition
to an excellent set of peer reviewed full papers, project reports and
posters, there is an an array of pre- and post-Conference tutorials and
workshops, Conference Special Sessions and Best Practices Posters &
Demonstrations:

*Tutorials & Workshops:*

   - *Fonds & Bonds: Archival Metadata, Tools, and Identity Management* (full
   day workshop at the Harry Ransom Center)
   - *Training the Trainers for Linked Data* (full day, hands-on workshop)
   - *RDF Validation in the Cultural Heritage Community* (1/2 day tutorial)
   - *Overview: Positioning DCMI & Dublin Core in the Metadata Ecosystem* (1/2
   day tutorial)

*Special Sessions:*

   - RDF Application Profiles and Tools for Metadata Validation and Quality
   Control (sponsored by Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) & DCMI
   Technical Board)
   - Schema.org, SchemaBibExtend -- Structured Data on the Web (sponsored
   by OCLC & Yandex)
   - BIBFRAME -- Expressing and Connecting Bibliographic Data (sponsored by
   the Library of Congress)
   - DCMI Roundtable (experts on BIBFRAME, Europeana Data Model (EDM), DPLA
   Metadata Application Profile (MAP), Schema.org/SchemaBibExtend, and more --
   sponsored by DCMI/Technical Board)

The program is available at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/program14 and the
papers, project report and poster abstracts are available at
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/index/pages/view/abstracts-2014.

*Don't procrastinate, register now!* The Conference weekend caps the second
week of the *Austin City Limits Music Festival* (http://www.aclfestival.com/)
and hotel rooms will become increasingly scarce as Conference time
approaches.