The Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and the Library of Congress are delighted to announce the conference:

CULTURAL HERITAGE on line. Empowering users: an active role for user communities
15-16 December 2009, Florence, Italy
Teatro della Pergola
Via della Pergola 30

The conference aims to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective, and bring together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination of the selected themes. Internet continues to have an impressive impact on cultural heritage and humanist communities by affecting the way they work, use, exchange and produce knowledge. New architectures and radically different paradigms arise continuously engendering a deep rethinking of traditional roles and tasks.

The second day of the conference foresees two parallel sessions related to relevant themes as: digital library applications, interactive web, and sustainable policies for digital culture preservation. Invited authors outline the users and communities framework in digital libraries design and development. Several considerations will be also addressed to the improvement of collaborative tools introducing new capabilities for cooperation, knowledge creation, and collective intelligence.

SATELLITE EVENTS:

– MONDAY 14th DECEMBER TUTORIAL: LONG TERM PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL ASSETS: BASIC CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES
Palazzo Incontri – Sala Verde
Via dei Pucci 1, Firenze

– THURSDAY 17th DECEMBER TUTORIAL: DUBLIN CORE – BUILDING BLOCKS FOR INTEROPERABILITY
Auditorium dell’Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
Via Folco Portinari 5, Firenze

See here the program: Cultural Heritage On-line [.pdf | 1614 Kb]

Please kindly register at: www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2009-registration

Registration Deadline: Registration must be done by 11 December 2009. The registrations received within 30th of November will take advantage of the promo price shown on the web site. Starting from 1st December 2009 registration fees will be charged of a 20% increase.

For more information on the Conference and Tutorials: www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2009

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

The TEI consortium and the University of Oslo (IKOS) are pleased to announce an informal meeting of TEI users with officers from the TEI consortium in the context of the conference

Early Chan Buddhist Manuscripts among the Dunhuang Findings,
Resources in the Mark-up and Digitization of Historical Texts

held at Oslo University from Sep. 28 to Oct. 3, 2009 (more information available at http://folk.uio.no/christoa/ZenManus_Front.html).

Place: Oslo University (Georg Svedrup Library, Room TBA)
Date: Oct. 3, 2009
Time: 13:00 to 17:00

Current and previous members of the TEI Council and Board, including Chair of the Board Dan O’Donnell, Tone Merete Bruvik and Christian Wittern will be present.

The main purpose of the meeting is to learn more about the use of TEI in Norway and exchange information about the TEI, as well as give an opportunity to discuss issues related to text encoding, for example (but in no way limited to) the encoding of Chinese manuscripts in light of the problems discussed at the conference or in fact any other topic the participants of this meeting would like to discuss.

For updated information about the meeting, including the meeting room,
please visit http://folk.uio.no/christoa/ZenManus_Front.html or write to me.

Christian Wittern

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Christian Wittern
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN

This year’s International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2009) is a month away. The theme of DC 2009 is Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data. The conference will be held on 12-16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea.

Participants are invited to register online at the conference Web site till October 5th. On-site registration will be available while conference is in session. Please go to the registration page http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php to register for the conference and related events including Dublin Core tutorials on Monday, 12 October and following the conference on Friday, 16 October. The basic tutorials introduce “Dublin Core in historical context, Interoperability options in a complex Web of data, Other metadata standards, and Interoperability issues and basic approaches”. The advanced tutorials include “Ontology Design and Interoperability”, and “Transforming, Mapping, and Merging OS: Methodologies and Challenges”.

For registration, program, accommodation information and more, please go to links below:

• DC 2009 home page: http://www.dc2009.kr/
• Program: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uprog_01.php
• Registration: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php
• Accommodation: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uacco_01.php

Thank you,

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Myung-Ja “MJ” Han
Metadata Librarian
220 Main Library
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
1408 W. Gregory Dr. (MC-522)
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-9515 (Main Library)
217-244-7809 (Grainger)

DC-2009: Last days for early bird rate

August 31 is the last day to enjoy the “Early bird” rates for the 2009 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC2009) to be held from 12 through 16 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea. Participants are invited to register online at the conference Web site and book accommodation for their stay in Seoul.

This year’s conference focuses on the Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data.

The main conference is taking place from Tuesday through Thursday, 13 to 15 October. Keynotes, plenary presentations and public working-group meetings will be held in parallel on topics ranging from

• Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
• Metadata quality, normalization, and mapping
• Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
• Application profiles
• Metadata interoperability across domains, languages, and time
• Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, institutional repositories)
• 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
• Metadata in e-Science and grid applications
• Social tagging
• 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

Conference Web Site: http://www.dc2009.kr/

Conference Program: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uprog_01.php

Registration: http://www.dc2009.kr/sub/cfs_uregi_01.php