International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
Carol Jean Godby, Devon Smith, Eric Childress, Maria Elisabete Catarino, Ana Alice Baptista, Edward Summers, Antoine Isaac, Clay Redding, Dan Krech, Xia Lin · edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin) · 2008
Establishing a standard like Dublin Core is like building a bridge.It makes exchange possible.Fittingly, the Dublin Core conference 2008 is taking place in Berlin, which is often called a bridge between Western and Eastern Europe.This event reaches even beyond Europe, with registered participants from nations all over the world such as United States, South Africa, Japan and New Zealand.This year's conference will focus on metadata for social and semantic applications.For the first time, alongside the English tutorials there will be tutorials in German, prepared and presented by students from the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.After three days of plenary as well as parallel sessions the conference will close on Friday with four different seminars focussing on interoperability and metadata vocabularies.Organizing such a conference would be impossible without the invaluable help of the following six organizations: the Competence Centre for Interoperable Metadata (KIM), the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB), the German National Library (DNB), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI).For the funding we would like to thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).Additionally we would like to thank Elsevier, the Common Library Network GBV, IBM, OCLC and Sun Microsystems for their generous sponsoring.Last but not least, the conference is supported by Wikimedia Deutschland, local support community of Wikipedia, the well-known online encyclopedia.We are sure that this year's conference will serve as a bridge between the participants and their knowledge, ideas and visions.With sincere wishes for a productive conference,