Focus and Scope
The annual Dublin Core conferences bring together leading metadata researchers and professionals from around the world. DC-2018 in Porto will be the eighteenth in a series of conferences previously held in Tokyo (2001), Florence (2002), Seattle (2003), Shanghai (2004), Madrid (2005), Manzanillo, Mexico (2006), Singapore (2007), Berlin (2008), Seoul (2009), Pittsburgh (2010) The Hague, Netherlands (2011), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia (2012), Lisbon, Portugal (2013), Austin, Texas (2014), São Paulo, Brazil (2015), Copenhagen, Denmark (2016), Washington, DC, USA (2017) and Porto, Portugal (2018).
The International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications proceedings cover a full range of topics related to standards and technologies for metadata in the context of organizations and on the open web. The proceedings provide a venue for researchers and metadata professionals to publish original research and innovative practices shaping development of languages of description.
General categories of interest to the DCMI community include:
- Accessibility
- Application Profiles
- Business Models for Metadata
- Conceptual Models
- Cross-domain Processes (e.g., Recordkeeping, Preservation, Institutional Repositories)
- Digital Rights Management Metadata
- Domain Metadata (e.g., Commerce, Corporate/Enterprise, Cultural Heritage Institutions (Museums, Libraries, and Archives), Education, Geo-Spatial, Government, Social Spaces)
- Metadata Generation Processes (e.g., Human, Automatic, and Hybrid)
- Metadata Harvesting
- Multilingual Issues
- Linked Data and Interoperability
- Knowledge Organization Systems (e.g., Ontologies, Taxonomies, and Thesauri)
- Localization and Internationalization
- Normalization and Crosswalks
- Quality and Evaluation
- Registries and Registry Services
- Search Engines and Metadata
- Social Tagging
Section Policies
Full Papers
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Short Papers
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Project Reports
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Posters
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Special Session
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Tutorials
DCMI tutorials are educational session conducted by noted experts.
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Presentations
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Peer Review Process
Submissions are accepted in three general categories:
- Full Papers. Research and practice papers that advance our knowledge of metadata in operation. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in lengthand should address challenging areas of metadata theory or application. Criteria for evaluation include:
- Originality of the approach to implementation
- Generalizability of the methods and results described
- Quality of the contribution to the implementation community
- Significance of the results presented
- Clarity of presentation
- Project Reports. Project reports are well written reports of 4 to 5 pages in lengthfrom the field of metadata practice and include useful "best practices" and useful solutions to both intractable and common metadata problems that have the potential to inform community practice. Criteria for evaluation include:
- The project is a "best practice" solution
- Conciseness and completeness of technical description
- Usability of the technical description by other potential implementers
- Clarity of presentation
Such reports should include at a minimum a:
- short introduction characterizing the problem addressed by the project or implementation;
- description of the project including: (a) an example showing how metadata is used or implemented; and (b) a diagram of the application architecture;
- brief description of planned next steps;
- full set of URLs to the project.
- Posters. Posters are for the presentation of projects or research under development or late-breaking results. Accepted posters will be displayed at the conference and may include additional materials, space permitting. Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings. Poster submissions of 1-2 pageswill be excepted and must contain:
- An extended abstract; and
- Author contact information.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.