DC-2001 Call for Participation Gauri Salokhe 06 Mar 2001 18:50 UTC
DC-2001 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001 Preliminary Call for Papers and Participation Date: October 22 - 26, 2001 Venue: National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Sponsors: National Institute of Informatics (NII, http://www.nii.ac.jp/) Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI, http://dublincore.org/) Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST, http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/) The Dublin Core workshop series has provided a forum for international, cross disciplinary metadata development since 1995. DC-2001, the 9th event in the DC workshop series, will include an international conference for the broader metadata community with three principal missions: - to provide a forum to discuss further development of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and related metadata standards - to provide a forum to present and exchange new ideas about metadata and applications, which are not limited to Dublin Core, and - to provide tutorial opportuities to increase understanding concerning the creation, management, and use of metadata applications. DC-2001 is the first event in the DC Workshop series to be hosted in Asia and is also the first event to provide conference tracks and tutorial tracks in addition to the workshop track. DC-2001 is soliting authors to submit their papers for presentation and discussion. The topics may include, among others: - Conceptual models for metadata - Implementation of systems and tools for metadata applications - Surveys and case studies of metadata applications - Novel activities based on metadata - Interoperability among metadata systems - Relationships among various metadata standards Important Dates Paper Submission due: June 20, 2001 Acceptance Notification due: July 31, 2001 Camera Ready Copy due: September 7, 2001 Submission Categories (provisional) Regular Paper: 8-10 pages Short paper: 2-4 pages The short paper category will include not only research papers but also demonstrations of applications, implementation and activity reports. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and selected for presentation at the conference. All accepted papers should be presented at the conference by an author or co-authors. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and published both in printed and electronic forms. Organization and chairs Conference General Chair: Jun Adachi (NII, Japan) Program Co-chairs: Thomas Baker (GMD, Germany) Shigeo Sugimoto (ULIS, Japan) Tutorial Chair: Erik Jul (OCLC, USA) Publications Chair: Traugott Koch (Lund University, Sweden) Local Arrangements Chair: Keizo Oyama (NII, Japan) More detailed information will appear at http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/DC2001/