21-23 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, The Hague, Netherlands

Resting at the heart of application profiles, metadata harmonization presents a little understood, but critical challenge in design of languages of description. DC-2011 will explore the conceptual and practical issues of design when the language solution calls for cross-fertilization from different metadata specifications.

DC-2011, the eleventh International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will take place at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague from 21 through 23 September 2011. The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) fosters the national infrastructure for scientific information and plays an important role in the permanent access to digital information at an international level. The KB has been involved in many international research projects in the field of digital libraries and hosts the offices of European Library Office. The European Library and Europeana. The European Library Office is coordinating the local organization of DC-2011.

@mire is proud to sponsor this conference.

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4-5 Open Access Tage, Regensburg, Germany

Die Open-Access-Tage finden in diesem Jahr am 4. und 5. Oktober an der Universität Regensburg statt. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich wie in den Vorjahren an Fachleute aus dem Open-Access-Bereich aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, an Wissenschaftler/innen aller Fachrichtungen, Verlagsvertreter/innen und Unterstützer/innen des wissenschaftlichen Forschungs- und Kommunikationsprozesses an Bibliotheken, Forschungsinstituten und Fördereinrichtungen. Auch in diesem Jahr wird es eine Open-Access-Messe geben, auf der sich Open-Access-Projekte, -Verlage, -Zeitschriften und Repositorien vorstellen und verschiedene Dienstleister ihre Aktivitäten im Bereich Open Access präsentieren können.

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12-14 Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, Izmir, Turkey

The Fifth Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2011) aims at becoming the main event for researchers in the area of metadata and semantics with an inter-disciplinary focus.
The conference welcomes submissions from any disciplinary domain in which meta-descriptions of digital resources are used, defined or standardized (e.g. biology, biotechnology, agriculture, medicine, etc.)..

@mire Keynote:
1000 Institutions 100 Countries 10 Years 1 Platform: Metadata in DSpace

The DSpace open source institutional repository platform is used by a very diverse community to ensure online access and preservation of digital collections. Overarching the spectrum between scholarly communication, theses, datasets and special library collections, DSpace offers an out of the box solution easy and generic enough to accommodate these uses.

As a member of the DSpace community and the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT), Bram Luyten will illustrate how the simple Dublin Core Metadata foundations of DSpace are enhanced to meet the needs of more complex usecases.

More in particular, he will present the results of ongoing work to improve metadata facilities in DSpace, facing challenges of serving users with more usability and flexibility, keeping up with the rapid evolutions of the web in general.

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24-30 Open Access Week 2011

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fourth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

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