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6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference 28-30 Nov. 2012 – Cádiz (Spain)
Kurzmitteilung
6th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference
28-30 November 2012 – Cádiz (Spain) mit CFPs for several tracks concerning DH (deadline July 20th)
http://mtsr2012.uca.es/
Die besten Einführungen in das Thema „Semantic Web“ …
Kurzmitteilung
Die besten Einführungen in das Thema „Semantic Web“ … http://semanticweb.com/the-best-introductions-to-the-semantic-web_b643
Half day tutorial: Free your metadata : a practical approach towards metadata cleaning and vocabulary reconciliation am Dienstag, 17.7.12 / dh2012 in Hamburg
Kurzmitteilung
Half day tutorial: Free your metadata : a practical approach towards metadata cleaning and vocabulary reconciliation
Seth van Hooland, Max De Wilde (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Ruben Verborgh (Multimedia Lab, Ghent University, Belgium)
The early-to-mid 2000s economic downturn in the US and Europe forced Digital Humanities projects to adopt a more pragmatic stance towards metadata creation and to deliver short-term results towards grant providers. It is precisely in this context that the concept of Linked and Open Data (LOD) has gained momentum. In this tutorial, we want to focus on reconciliation, the process in which we map domain specific vocabulary to another (often more commonly used) vocabulary that is part of the Semantic Web in order to annex the metadata to the Linked Data Cloud. We believe that the integration of heterogeneous collections can be managed by using subject vocabulary for cross linking between collections, since major classifications and thesauri (e.g. LCSH, DDC, RAMEAU, etc.) have been made available following Linked Data Principles.
Re-using these established terms for indexing cultural heritage resources represents a big potential of Linked Data for Digital Humanities projects, but there is a common belief that the application of LOD publishing still requires expert knowledge of Semantic Web technologies. This tutorial will therefore demonstrate how Semantic Web novices can start experimenting on their own with non-expert software such as Google Refine.
Participants of the tutorial will be asked to bring an export (or a subset) of metadata from their own projects or organizations and to pre-install Google Refine on their laptop. All necessary operations to reconcile metadata with controlled vocabularies which are already a part of the Linked Data cloud will be presented in detail, after which participants will be given time to perform these actions on their own metadata, under assistance of the tutorial organizers. Previous tutorials have mainly relied on the use of the Library of Congres Subject Headings (LCSH), but for the DH2012 conference we will test out beforehand SPARQL endpoints of controlled vocabularies in German (available for example on http://wiss-ki.eu/authorities/gnd/) in order to make sure that local participants will be able to experiment with metadata in German.
This tutorial proposal is a part of the Free your Metadata research project (www.freeyourmetadata.org). The website offers a variety of video’s, screencasts and documentation on how to use Google Refine to clean and reconcile metadata with controlled vocabularies already connected to the Linked Data cloud. The website also offers an overview of previous presentations and workshops.
CfP: SWIB2012 Köln
Kurzmitteilung
Es gibt einen neuen CFP für die SWIB 2012 Tagung, diesmal in Köln.
Call for Participation: SWIB12 „Semantic Web in Bibliotheken“
(Semantic Web in Libraries) Conference, 26.11. – 28.11.2012, Cologne
To an ever increasing extent Linked Open Data (LOD) is developing into a
mainstream topic, with more and more organisations announcing LOD
projects and services. Furthermore and during the last two years Linked
Open Data has received a lot more attention from the library world.
Examples ranging from the Library of Congress‘ initiative „A
Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age“, the Conference of European
National Librarians and their vote to support the open licensing of
their data to groups like LODLAM, IFLA’S Semantic Web Special Interest
Group, to library system vendors and providers discussing and
experimenting with Linked Data technology clearly reflect that – LOD
has gained a lot of momentum in library land.
The question is how to ensure that LOD won’t be a temporary hype but
that it will take hold in future infrastructures. SWIB12 will focus on
the adaption of Semantic Web approaches in applications for libraries
and science. In the last years lots of effort has been put into
generating LOD datasets from legacy systems and into promoting the LOD
approach towards a global and open information space. Upcoming
challenges will be the strategic and technical alignment of catalogues
and legacy systems in libraries, and authoring environments for
scholarly communication with a data and service infrastructure based on
Semantic Web principles.
This year’s SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Bibliotheken) will be held
in Cologne from 26-28 November 2012. As in the years before, SWIB12 will
be organized by the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)
and the ZBW – German National Library of Economics / Leibniz
Information Centre for Economics. The conference language is English.
We appreciate proposals (research reports, projects, work in progress,
…) on the following or related topics:
* Integration of Linked Data into productive library environments
* Technologies for providing, accessing and integrating Linked Data in a
non-disruptive and lightweighted way, e.g. by means of APIs or
WebServices
* Enhancing authoring environments like Content Management Systems,
blogs or wikis with Semantic Web facilities, e.g. by accessing Linked
Open Datasets or by including semantic markup
* Enhancing legacy data through integration of data from the LOD cloud
or through FRBRizing, deduplication, crowdsourcing etc.
* Applications using authority data maintained by libraries and possibly
enriched by the community
* Development of commercial or non-commercial library systems aligning
their data models and policies with the web of data
* Licensing strategies and business models for supporting the reuse of
Linked Open Data
Do you have an interesting service, research topic or project that you
would like to present at the conference? We are looking forward to
receiving your suggestions and proposals for contributions (with an
abstract of 1000-1500 characters) by 20 May 2012. Please submit your
abstract using our website at http://swib.org/swib12.
Adrian Pohl
hbz
Tel. +49-(0)221-40075235
E-mail: swib(at)hbz-nrw.de
or
Joachim Neubert
ZBW
Tel. +49-(0)40-42834462
E-mail: j.neubert(at)zbw.eu
Website: http://swib.org/swib12
Twitter: #swib12
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Die Webseite für die aktuelle Tagung läuft noch nicht, aber wird sicher in den nächsten Tagen freigeschaltet.
Inzwischen sind die PPTs und Videos der Vorträge der SWIB 2011 Tagung in Hamburg Online: http://swib.org/swib11/programm_29_nov.html
„Five Years On“ Seminar der British Library / London 27.04.12
April 2012 marks the fifth anniversary of the Data Model Meeting at the British Library, London attended by participants interested in the fit between RDA: Resource Description and Access and the models used in other metadata communities, especially those working in the Semantic Web environment. This meeting, informally known as the „London Meeting“, has proved to be a critical point in the trajectory of libraries from the traditional data view to linked data and the Semantic Web. More info at link