Host: Shanghai Library - http://www.library.sh.cn/new-eng/
Sponsors:
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 - http://dublincore.org/
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.
Tutorials will provide an introduction to metadata for non-experts.
In conjunction with DC-2004, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative will hold
technical working-group meetings and Shanghai Library will host the 2004
Shanghai International Library Forum (http://www.libnet.sh.cn/silf2004/).
The Conference track of DC-2004 invites submissions of papers in the
following areas:
-- Conceptual models for metadata
-- Interoperability among metadata systems and standards
-- Enterprise metadata
-- Globalization, localization, and multilinguality of metadata
-- Metadata for education, e-Government, and geospatial applications
-- Institutional Repositories and metadata harvesting
-- Search engines and metadata
-- Systems and tools for metadata applications
-- Metadata for cultural heritage and long-term preservation
-- Surveys, case studies, and novel activities based on metadata
-- Metadata registries and registry services
-- Metadata standardization
-- Ontologies and Semantic Web
-- Knowledge management
Paper Categories
Regular Papers (8 to 10 pages) describe original work in detail.
Short papers (2 to 4 pages) and posters describe a specific model,
application, or activity in a concise format.
Author guidelines and submission details can be found at
http://dc2004.library.sh.cn/papers/.
All 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
Paper submission 1 May 2004
Poster submission 15 May 2004
Acceptance notification 1 June 2004
Camera-ready copy due 1 July 2004
Previous Dublin Core conferences
DC-2001, Tokyo http://www.nii.ac.jp/dc2001/
DC-2002, Florence http://www.bncf.net/dc2002/
DC-2003, Seattle http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/
Organization and chairs
Program Co-chairs Liu Wei (Shanghai Library)
Thomas Baker (Fraunhofer, Germany)
Workshop Chair Makx Dekkers (DCMI)
See: dc2004.library.sh.cn/english/cfp/ for detail.
