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Metadata Vocabularies in Practice

Metadata based on standards such as Dublin Core are a key component of information environments from scientific repositories to corporate intranets and from business and publishing to education and e-government.

DC-2005 - the fifth in a series of conferences previously held in Tokyo (2001), Florence (2002), Seattle (2003), and Shanghai (2004) - will examine the practicalities of maintaining and using controlled sets of terms ("vocabularies") in the context of the Web.

DC-2005 aims at bringing together several distinct communities of vocabulary users:

• Users of metadata standards such as Dublin Core and Learning Object Metadata (LOM), with their sets of descriptive "elements" and "properties"
• The W3C Semantic Web Activity, which has formalized the notion of "ontologies"
• Users of Knowledge Organization Systems, which encompass value-space structures such as "thesauri" and "subject classifications"
• The world of corporate intranets, which use "taxonomies"

These diverse communities share common problems, from the use of identifiers for terms to practices for developing, maintaining, versioning, translating, and adapting standard vocabularies for specific local needs.

Topics

Topics of particular relevance include:

• Publication of vocabularies as formal schemas
• Community processes of vocabulary development
• Vocabulary maintenance and workflows
• Corporate enterprise metadata and taxonomies
• Formal ontologies and Semantic Web frameworks
• Application profiles and vocabulary adaptations
• Metadata normalization and crosswalks
• Versioning of vocabularies
• Use of term identifiers and dereferencing practice
• Vocabulary registries and registry services
• Multilingual vocabularies and translations
• Vocabularies and accessibility
• Others

Author Guidelines

The Program Committee would like to solicit contributions of the following types:

1. Regular Papers (8 to 10 pages) either describe innovative original work in detail or provide critical, well-referenced overviews of key developments or good practice in the areas outlined above
2. Short papers (2 to 4 pages) describe a specific model, application, or activity in a concise format
3. Workshop proposals (1 page) define the topic of workshop session, identify organizers, and describe a process for inviting and reviewing contributions

Paper submission process should regard the following:

1. All papers must be in English or in Spanish (see last news).
2. All papers must be original contributions, i.e., not have been previously published or currently under review for publication elsewhere.
3. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and published both in print and electronically in the conference proceedings.
4. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference by at least one of their authors, who has to be registered before 15 July.
5. Papers must be sent full-text in PDF or DOC format, conforming to this style template.

Time for paper submission is over.

Deadlines and important dates

• Papers submission: 1 April 2005 (full text). Closed.
• Acceptance notification: Early June 2005
• Camera-ready copy due: 28 June 2005

Conference language

The official language of the conference is English, but we will provide simultaneous translation (English-Spanish) for keynotes, tutorials, and plenary sessions.