Organised by the DCMI AsiaPAc and held in conjunction with IFLA WLIC 2013, the DCMI Workshop aims to raise awareness among librarians in the Asian region on the implementation of RDA and how library metadata (specifically Dublin Core) can be exposed as linked data to improve visibility & enhance collection usage. Our objective is to build confidence among Asian librarians to work well in the digital arena and be comfortable enough to adopt new technologies that will help improve their libraries’ services. A secondary objective is to build a community for the DCMI Asia Task Group where regular discussion on metadata matters can be established.
The theme for the workshop will be “Resource, Description and Access, Dublin Core and Linked Open Data” and it will be made up of 2 half-day seminars. The morning seminar will focus on Introductory concepts which is very important for our region where most librarians are still working with MARC and are not exposed to linked data or semantic web technologies. The afternoon seminar will focus on Implementation, what and how librarians can expose both their MARC and DC metadata as linked data.
Held on 15 August 2013 in Singapore, the seminar is free of charge and limited to 150 participants. Kindly register online at: http://ifla2013satellite.nlb.sg/dcmi-workshop/main/registration/
More information can be found at: http://ifla2013satellite.nlb.sg/dcmi-workshop/
Information provided by Ms Tang Puay Eng.