Post-IFLA conference: Information Technology and DCMI

[Heike Neuroth <neuroth _at__ mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de>]

*** Apologies for cross posting
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Satellite meeting
at SUB Goettingen to be held in conjunction with the IFLA Conference in
Berlin

On behalf of the Göttingen State
and University Library (SUB), the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI),
and the Information Technology Section of the International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) we would like to invite you
to the Satellite meeting: 

"Information
Technology and DCMI"
http://post-ifla.sub.uni-goettingen.de/

being held at the Göttingen
State and University Library (SUB), Germany from 11th August to the 12th
of August 2003. 
The Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative is an open
forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata
standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models.
DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global
workshops, conferences, standards liaison, and educational efforts to
promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices. 
The IFLA
Information Technology Section
(ITS) serves to promote and advance the application of information
technologies (IT) to library and information services in all societies,
through activities related to standards, education and training,
research, and the marketplace. ITS scope includes IT for the creation,
organization, storage and maintenance, retrieval, and transfer of
information and documents of all types of libraries and information
centers. It also includes IT for the operation of libraries and
information centers, as well as managerial and policy issues regarding
IT. Of primary importance are network and wireless technologies as they
apply to IT as well as applications of IT for supporting access to and
delivery of information. 
The Göttingen
State and University Library,
Germany (SUB) is an outstanding
German academic library with numerous rare and comprehensive collections.
In several research projects the SUB has proved to be a leading
institution in the field of Digital Library and online information
services. For digitization activities the SUB runs a sophisticated
digitization and service center
(GDZ).
The SUB's qualification to combine the preservation of cultural heritage
with future-oriented technology has been recognised by the award
"Library of the Year 2002". 

Topics/Scope
The scope of this Satellite
meeting will not only be to demonstrate new developments in the field of
(Dublin Core) metadata and their implementations, but also to encourage
even more organisations around the world to use the
Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting to exchange and share
metadata collections (repositories).
Further objectives include discussions about important related issues
like long-term preservation and metadata registry.
One further important focus will be based on questions of follow-ups for
the next Dublin
Core conference this year in
Seattle (Washington, USA) from
the 28th of September to the 2nd of October 2003 and the DCMI's National
Affiliate concept.
For the Satellite meeting we expect an international range of interesting
talks exploring common approaches and challenges to the topic of DCMI
(state of the art report), metadata issues, long-term preservation, OAI
and registry. It will focus on different hot topics, like national OAI
activities, Dublin Core experiences and the daily use as well as special
preservation approaches. 

Who should
attend
all who are working with or
interested in aspects of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
and/or the use of Dublin Core metadata 
people from libraries, museums who are considering making their
repositories (metadata collections) of information available via the
Internet 
researchers and scientists who are interested in long-term preservation,
and copyright and DRM issues and 
decision makers and project managers who are interested in new
projects/initiatives and approaches in the Digital Library developments

Dates
The Satellite meeting
"Information Technology and DCMI" will be held on the 11th
(starts 14.00) and 12th of August (ends 16.00) 2003 

Location
The Satellite meeting
"Information Technology and DCMI" will take place at the
Göttingen State
and University Library (SUB),
Germany:
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1
37073 Göttingen
Germany

Sponsor
The conference is supported by
the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the context of the
Meta-Lib
project.

Dr. Heike Neuroth

Research & Development     -     DINI secretary

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/     -     http://www.dini.de/

Goettingen State and University Library (SUB)

Papendiek 14

37073 Göttingen

neuroth _at__ mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de

+49 (0)551 393866