DC-2012 will explore the global, national and regional roles of metadata in addressing global challenges such as food security, the digital divide, and sustainable development. Metadata plays a significant role globally in information systems shaping how we know, monitor and change social and governmental systems affecting everything from the environment, human rights and justice to education and peace. DC-2012 will bring together in Kuching the community of metadata scholars and practitioners to engage in the exchange of knowledge and best practices in developing languages of description to meet these global challenges.

DEADLINES & IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Deadline: 23 March 2012
Author Notification: 25 May 2012
Final Copy: 29 June 2012

Beyond the conference theme, papers, reports, and poster submissions are welcome on a wide range of metadata topics, such as:

Metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices
Metadata quality (methods, tools, and practices)
Conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS)
Application profiles
Metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices)
Metadata interoperability across domains, languages, time, structures, and scales
Cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, curation, institutional repositories, publishing)
Domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, and scientific fields)
Bibliographic standards (e.g., RDA, FRBR, subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies
Accessibility metadata
Metadata for scientific data, e-Science and grid applications
Social tagging and user participation in building metadata
Usage data (paradata/attention metadata)
Knowledge Organization Systems (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri) and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS)
Ontology design and development
Integration of metadata and ontologies
Search engines and metadata
Linked data and the Semantic Web (metadata and applications)
Vocabulary registries and registry services