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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Joint NISO/DCMI Webinar: </span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>Dublin</span></font></b><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'> Core: The Road
from Metadata Formats to Linked Data</span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and
the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) are pleased to announce a new
educational partnership, starting with a webinar on “Dublin Core: The
Road from Metadata Formats to Linked Data,” to be held Wednesday, August
25th, from </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>1:00 – 2:30 p.m.</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (eastern time).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Created in 1995, the Dublin Core was a result of the early
phase of the web revolution. While most saw the Dublin Core as a simple
metadata format, or as a set of descriptive headers embedded in web pages, a
few of its founders saw it as a cornerstone of a fundamentally new approach to
metadata. In the shadow of search engines, a Semantic Web approach developed in
the early 2000s, reaching maturity in 2006 with the Linked Data movement, which
uses Dublin Core as one of its key vocabularies.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This webinar will discuss the difference between traditional
approaches based on record formats and the Linked Data approach, based on
metadata "statements" designed to be merged across data silo
boundaries. Focusing on the dual role of Dublin Core as a format and as a
Semantic Web vocabulary, this webinar will discuss new technologies for
bridging the gap between traditional and Linked Data approaches, highlighting
how old ideas such as embedded metadata have been reinvented with new web
technologies and tools to solve practical problems of resource discovery and
navigation.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Speakers and topics are:</span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Dublin</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'> Core in the Early Web Revolution</span></font></b></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Makx Dekkers, Managing Director and CEO, Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative Ltd. (DCMI)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Makx will describe how the early history of the Dublin Core
illustrates an emerging split between two quite different paradigms for
metadata -- one based on closed systems and record formats and the other based
on recombinational metadata with an "open-world" assumption.</span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>What Makes the Linked Data Approach
Different</span></font></b></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer, DCMI Ltd.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tom will demonstrate how metadata can be designed for
merging across the boundaries of repositories and data silos.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Designing Interoperable Metadata on
Linked Data Principles</span></font></b></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer, DCMI Ltd. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Tom will show how good metadata design is rooted in
well-articulated requirements and how the interoperability of metadata depends
on shared</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>underlying vocabularies in the context of a shared
"grammar" for metadata.</span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Bridging the Gap to the Linked Data
Cloud</span></font></b></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Makx Dekkers, Managing Director and CEO, Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative Ltd. (DCMI)</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Makx will describe how existing metadata applications can
participate in the Linked Data cloud with emphasis on the role of simple,
generic vocabularies such as the Dublin Core in providing a common denominator
for interoperability.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Registration is per site (defined as access for one
computer). NISO and NASIG members may register at a discounted rate. A student
discount is also available. Can't make it on the scheduled date or time?
Registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year, which can be
viewed at your convenience. For more information or to register, visit the
event webpage: <a href="www.niso.org/news/events/2010/dublincore/">www.niso.org/news/events/2010/dublincore/</a>.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Jill O'Neill</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Director, Planning & Communication</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>NFAIS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>(v) 215-893-1561</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>(email) jilloneill@nfais.org</span></font></p>
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