Digital meets Culture https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/international-conference-on-dublin-core-metadata-applications/ Export date: Mon Jan 18 16:08:53 2021 / +0000 GMT |
International Conference on Dublin Core & Metadata Applications![]()
The need for structured metadata to support ubiquitous access across the Web to the treasure troves of resources spanning arts, sciences and the digital humanities is now common knowledge among information systems' designers and implementers. Structured metadata expressed through languages of description make it possible for us to “speak” of the contents of our treasure troves. But, like all human languages, our languages of description both enable and isolate. The push to break out of the isolation of the metadata silos in which professionals inevitably design, implement and manage metadata, due to the need to discover the intersections of our treasure troves, drives much of today's discourse and emerging practice in metadata. The emergence of massively integrated Web presences such as Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), along with the global reshaping of public access through mechanisms such as Linked Data and schema.org, drives our conversations, our excitement and our fears.
DCMI is an open organisation supporting shared innovation in metadata design and best practices across a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI does this by:
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