DC-2013

Overview

DC-2013 will explore questions regarding the persistence, maintenance, and preservation of metadata and descriptive vocabularies. The need for stable representations and descriptions spans all sectors including cultural heritage and scientific data, eGovernment, finance and commerce. Thus, the maintenance and management of metadata is essential to address the long term availability of information of legal, cultural and economic value.

Beyond the conference theme, DC-2013 will explore 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

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DC-2013 will be collocated and run simultaneously with « iPRES 2013 » providing a rich environment for synergistic exploration of issues common to both communities.