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The annual Dublin Core conferences bring together leading metadata researchers and
professionals from around the world.
DC-2008 in Berlin will be the eighth in a series of conferences held previously in Tokyo,
Florence, Seattle, Shanghai, Madrid, Manzanillo, and Singapore. The conference is
organized jointly by the Competence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM), Max Planck
Digital Library, G?ttingen State and University Library, the German National Library,
Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, and Dublin Core Metadata Initiative with sponsorship from
Wikimedia Deutschland.

CONFERENCE THEME
Metadata is a key aspect of our evolving infrastructure for information management, social
computing, and scientific collaboration.

DC-2008 will focus on metadata challenges, solutions, and innovation in initiatives and
activities underlying semantic and social applications. Metadata is part of the fabric of social
computing, which includes the use of wikis, blogs, and tagging for collaboration and
participation. Metadata also underlies the development of semantic applications, and the
Semantic Web -- the representation and integration of multimedia knowledge structures on
the basis of semantic models. These two trends flow together in applications such as
Wikipedia, where authors collectively create structured information that can be extracted and
used to enhance access to and use of information sources.

Recent discussion has focused on how existing bibliographic standards can be expressed
as Semantic Web vocabularies to facilitate the integration of library and cultural heritage data
with other types of data. Harnessing the efforts of content providers and end-users to link,
tag, edit, and describe their information in interoperable ways ("participatory metadata") is a
key step towards providing knowledge environments that are scalable, self-correcting, and
evolvable.

DC-2008 will explore conceptual and practical issues in the development and deployment of
semantic and social applications to meet the needs of specific communities of practice.
Papers, reports, and poster submissions are welcome on a wide range of metadata topics,
such as:

+ Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)
+ Semantic Web metadata and applications
+ Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
+ Social tagging
+ Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) and Simple Knowledge
Organization Systems (SKOS) (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files, folksonomies,
and thesauri)
+ Metadata in e-Science and grid applications
+ Metadata interoperability and internationalization
+ Metadata quality, normalization, and mapping
+ Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, institutional repositories)
+ Vocabulary registries and registry services
+ Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education,
government, and scientific fields)
+ Application profiles
+ Accessibility metadata
+ Search engines and metadata
+ Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
+ Bibliographic standards (e.g., Resource Description and Access (RDA), Functional
Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), subject headings) as Semantic Web
vocabularies