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Subject: DC 2003 Conference
From: Carol Hixson <chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:19:28 -0700

Registration is open for the 2003 Dublin Core Conference to be held in
Seattle, WA, Sept. 28 - Oct. 2. The conference will provide participants
with a forum for intensive interaction with researchers, practitioners
and decision makers concerned with advances in metadata for resource
discovery, retrieval, management and use. The DC-2003 Conference theme
"Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice: Metadata Research &
Applications" provides a framework in which  researchers can share
inquiries, research methodologies, and results from their latest studies
and in which system implementers can share application developments and
display their tools through the DC-Lab. The scope of matters addressed
by the contributed papers is not confined to the Dublin Core metadata
element set but extends across all metadata schemas and application
domains. The Conference Track will present refereed papers on metadata
and related areas of concern including the following:

    * Conceptual models and fundamental principles
    * Globalization and localization
    * Community or domain metadata (statistical, government,
geo-spatial, etc.)
    * Enterprise metadata
    * Metadata registries and registry services
    * Interoperability among metadata systems and standards
    * Search engines and metadata
    * Implementation of systems and tools for metadata applications

In addition to the main conference, two pre-conference workshops on
metadata related topics will be offered on September 28:

Metadata Primer - you will learn metadata's role in resource discovery,
management, and interoperability. The basic questions -- "What is
metadata?"  "What can metadata do?" "How does XML figure into this?"  --
will be covered through interactive lectures and hands on computer
lab-based mini-projects. The primer will be team-taught by members of
the community of the Information School of the University of Washington
and other select instructors who actively work with metadata.

Metadata and Search - emphasis will be on internal or site search
technology as opposed to external, Internet or web search technology
(although some technology is applicable to both internal and external
search applications). There will be presentations by experts,
implementation case studies, demonstrations by search technology
vendors, and lots of time for Q&A. Organized by the DCMI Global
Corporate Circles Special Interest Group.

For online registration and further information about the workshops and
conference, see:
<http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/index.html>http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/index.html

Carol Hixson
Member, DC2003 Publicity Committee
Head, Catalog Department
University of Oregon Libraries
chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu