2005 Media Releases
May 12, 2005
METADATA CONFERENCE AT LA TROBE UNIVERSITY
A major world conference on Metadata—electronic cataloguing for the World-wide Web and other resources that can be discovered via the Web—will be held at Trobe University from May 30 to June 1, 2005.
Entitled DC-ANZ 2005, the conference at La Trobe’s Melbourne (Bundoora) campus, offers plenary presentations, informal work sessions, research reports, problem sharing sessions, small group discussions and opportunities for participants to interact with leading world Metadata figures who will be present.
Conference convenor is Adjunct Associate Professor in Computer Science and Computer Engineering in La Trobe’s Faculty of Science and Technology, Ms Liddy Nevile. Standards Australia is the sponsor.
Ms Nevile explained that DC-ANZ stood for the Dublin Core-Australia New Zealand. A decade ago the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) began a process to make it easier to access the vast amount of data available on the Web.
The initiative developed the Dublin Core - the light-weight standard for cataloguing of the Web that has been adopted in many countries. It is mandated for government information in a number of countries, including Australia and New Zealand and currently operates officially in more than 25 languages. It is designed to make catalogues sharable across domains, languages and national borders.
Among the keynote speakers will be DCMI Managing Director, Mr Makx Dekkers, and Ms Debbie Campbell, Director, Coordination Support Branch at the National Library of Australia.
Ms Campbell is a researcher of new library service possibilities and is well-known in Australia and New Zealand for her leadership in metadata work.
Others will be Professor Shigeo Sugimoto and Associate Professor Mitsuharu Nagamori of the University of Tsukuba. Professor Sugimoto is a member of the DCMI Board of Trustees and Advisory Board and co-chair of the DCMI Internationalisation WG. Associate Professor Nagamori has worked on the DCMI Registry.
The conference will have several themes—a metadata framework for education, metadata research activities, metadata in general practice and experience, metadata in government, and metadata and the Semantic Web.
Ms Nevile said that technicians, trade exhibitors, educators/trainers and researchers would find DC-ANZ 2005 extremely valuable.
Full details, including registration information, are available at www.dc-anz.org/2005conf
For further information:
Please contact Professor Liddy Nevile, Email: L.Nevile@latrobe.edu.au, or Bruce McLeod +61 2 6296 1626, or La Trobe University Public Affairs: +61 3 9479 2316.