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DCMI hosts SKOS-Thes, a namespace based on ISO 25964

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

DCMI is providing a new home for SKOS-Thes, a namespace that extends SKOS on the basis of the ISO 25964 data model. The ISO 25964 standard, published in 2011, covers all aspects of developing thesauri and setting up mappings across vocabularies to encourage high quality information retrieval across networked resources.

Niklas Lindström appointed as Co-Chair of Usage Board

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Niklas Lindström has been appointed as Co-Chair of DCMI Usage Board, which maintains DCMI Metadata Terms and ISO 15836. He is a consultant with a background in web and data technologies, and works as a systems developer at the National Library of Sweden, specializing in linked data structures, semantics, protocols, and interoperability.

openWEMI community group hosted by DCMI

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

It has been proposed that a very small vocabulary with minimally constrained classes and properties representing the concepts of Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item would benefit anyone designing metadata for created resources. The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has opened a community group to develop this core vocabulary.

NKOS website moves to dublincore.org

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Website of the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) community moves to dublincore.org.

Webinar - Applying FAIR Principles to Ontologies

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Webinar by Dr. María Poveda-Villalón, scheduled for April 7, 2022, 16:00 UTC. This webinar addresses ontologies for the semantic web and how FAIR principles could be applied to ontologies. This includes metadata best practices and registries to publish the ontologies as Linked Open Vocabularies

Learning Resource Type Vocabulary Draft

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Dublin Core task group on Learning Resource Metadata (LRMI) wishes to receive comments on a new high-level vocabulary for categorizing Learning Resources by type.

Webinar - Natural history data curation: maintaining infrastructures and turning documents into datasets

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

这个webinar is scheduled for February 10, 2022, 16:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.

Webinar: Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities: Global Perspectives

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

这个webinar is scheduled for Thursday, 16 December 2021, 16:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.

Webinar: Introduction to OpenRefine

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

这个webinar is scheduled for Thursday, 18 November 2021, 18:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.

Registration for DCMI-2021 is now open

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Registration for DCMI-2021 is now open. Online registration is available at //www.voudr.com/conferences/2021/registration/. The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation.

Webinar: Modeling Intangible Entities in the Cultural Domains for Digital Archiving

Wed, 05 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

这个webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 19th, 2021, 21:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.

Announcing DCMI Virtual 2021

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The 2021 DCMI Virtual will offer a programme of virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes, best practice sessions, expert panel discussions, invited talks, tutorials, and student and member forums, and will run from October 4th, 2021 to October 15th, 2021.

Webinar - Introduction to the DDI Metadata Standard

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

这个webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, April 21st, 2021, 14:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.

Webinar - Introduction to KNIME

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

这个webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, February 10th, 2021, 16:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for the DCMI community.

Sam Oh announced as new DCMI Director

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

After three and a half years, Paul Walk is stepping down as DCMI Managing Director. In his stead, the DCMI Governing Board has appointed Dr.

DCMI Virtual 2020 - Tutorial on Automated Subject Indexing with Annif

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The DCMI Virtual 2020 conference will feature a tutorial presentation, "Introduction to Annif and automated subject indexing", on September 21st. For practitioners that would like to learn how to use the Annif tool on their own, there will also be a follow-up hands-on tutorial organized by the National Library of Finland together with the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ZBW.

Webinar - Introduction to the W3C Data Catalog Ontology (DCAT)

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

这个网络研讨会定于星期四,11月1日2th, 2020, 16:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.

DCMI虚拟2020现在开放注册!

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Registration for DCMI Virtual 2020 is now open! DCMI Virtual will be a programme of virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes, expert panel discussions, tutorials and presentations.

Webinar - Metadata in China (in Chinese)

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A Chinese-language webinar on "Metadata development in China", co-organized by Wuhan University, the DCMI Education Committee, and the Library Society of China, will be held on August 29, 9:00-11:00 Beijing time.

Webinar - Getty Vocabulary Program's OpenRefine reconciliation service

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

这个webinar is scheduled for Thursday, 20 August, 2020, 15:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here) and is free for DCMI members.