DC-2012 Call for Participation (EXTENSION) to 30 March 2012
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3-7 September 2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
DC-2012 will explore the global, national and regional roles of metadata in addressing global challenges such as food security, the digital divide, and sustainable development. Metadata plays a significant role globally in information systems shaping how we know, monitor and change social and governmental systems affecting everything from the environment, human rights and justice to education and peace. DC-2012 will bring together in Kuching the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing languages of description to meet these global challenges.
–DC-2012 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
–PRICAI 2012 The 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
–PRIMA 2012 The 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
–Artificial Intelligence Workshops (AIW2012)
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DEADLINES & IMPORTANT DATES:
–SUBMISSION **DEADLINE EXTENSION**: 30 March 2012
–AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: 25 May 2012
–FINAL COPY: 29 June 2012
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IMPORTANT URLS:
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Beyond the conference theme, submissions are welcome on a wide range of metadata topics, such as:
— Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
— Metadata quality (methods, tools, and practices)
— Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
— Application profiles
— Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)
— 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
— Usage data (paradata/attention 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
— Search engines and metadata
— Linked data and the Semantic Web (metadata and applications)
— Vocabulary registries and registry services
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SUBMISSIONS
–All submissions for papers, reports, extended poster abstracts, community workshop and special sessions must do so through the DCMI Peer Review System at
http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/index.php/pubs/. Author registration with the peer review system and instructions for the submission process appear under the “Information for Authors” link.
–All submissions must be in English.
–All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the International Program Committee.
–Unless previously arranged, accepted papers, project reports and posters must be presented in Kuching by at least one of their authors.
Submissions for Asynchronous Participation: With prior arrangement, a few exceptional papers, project reports and extended poster abstracts will be accepted for asynchronous presentation by their authors. Submissions accepted for asynchronous presentation must follow both the general author guidelines for submission as well as additional instructions located at
http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2012/remote.
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PUBLICATION
— Accepted papers, project reports and poster abstracts will be published in the permanent online conference proceedings and in DCMI Publications (
http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/).
— Special session and community workshop session abstracts will be published in the online conference proceedings.
— Papers, research reports and poster abstracts must conform to the appropriate formatting template available through the DCMI Peer Review System.
— Unless previously arranged, accepted papers, project reports and posters must be presented at The Hague by at least one of their authors.
— Submitting authors in all categories must provide basic information regarding current professional positions and affiliations as a condition of acceptance and publication.
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SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
FULL PAPERS (8-10 pages; Peer reviewed): 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.
PROJECT REPORTS (4-5 pages; Peer reviewed): Project reports describe a specific model, application, or activity in a concise presentation.
POSTERS (1-2 pages; Peer reviewed): Posters are for the presentation of projects or research under development or late-breaking results. Poster submission should consist of a one-two page extended abstract.
SPECIAL & PANEL SESSIONS: Special and panel sessions are organized by experts in a specific area of metadata. Each special session serves as a focused exchange of the latest research and/or best practice in the area. A proposal for a special session consists of a single document of approximately 800-1,200 words in length containing:
–Session title
–35-50 word abstract for use in promoting the session
–Brief description of the scope and motivation for the session
–Names and brief CVs of session facilitators, presenters, or panelists
–Brief CVs of the organizers
DCMI COMMUNITY & TASK GROUP WORKSHOP SESSIONS: DCMI Community Workshop & Task Group Sessions are intended to: (1) advance the specific work of DCMI entities as defined at
http://dublincore.org/groups/#communities; and (2) to set the work agenda for the Community or Task Group for the coming year. Note: Communities wanting to present a special session or a panel in the area of the Community’s interest should submit a proposal under Special & Panel Sessions above.
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
–Schubert Foo, Professor and Associate Dean, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
–Hans Overbeek, Ministry of Internal Affairs, The Hague, Netherlands
