Conferences and Meetings 4/2/12

Event updates and reminders from CSI, NASIG, DCMI-UK and IASSIST

• Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring Membership Meeting – April 2-3

The CNI Spring Membership meeting starts today at the  Baltimore’s Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel.   A schedule of project briefings to be presented is now available at www.cni.org/mm/spring-2012/schedule/  Links from this page lead to session abstracts; a complete list of project briefings with links to session descriptions can be found at www.cni.org/mm/spring-2012/project-briefings-presentations/.  The meeting Schedule of Events (not including handouts) is also available for download.  Meeting updates will be posting from the CNI Twitter account (http://twitter.com/cni_org) using the hashtag #cni12s.  Other twitterers to do the same.

• Preconference Registrations – Time is running out! NASIG Conference 2012

The North American Serials Interest Group’s 27th Annual Conference, June 7-10, 2012, in Nashville, Tennessee is fast approaching.  Preconference spots are still available and you can secure your spot in one of these remaining preconference sessions.  Early Bird registration is still open but ends May 4, 2012, 5 p.m. Eastern.  Click here to register.

• Five Years On: (Library Linked Data)

This seminar marks five years of progress in library linked data since the “London Meeting” of 2007 London Meeting of 31 April/1 May 2007 between DCMI and Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA stimulated significant development of Semantic Web representations of the major international bibliographic metadata models, including IFLA’s Functional Requirements family and the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), and MARC as well as RDA itself. Attention is now beginning to focus on the management and sustainability of this activity, and the development of high-level semantic and data structures to support library applications.

Speakers will include participants at the 2007 meeting and other significant players in library data and the Semantic Web. Papers from the seminar will be published by DCMI and available freely online.

This is a DCMI-UK Regional Meeting and it will be held at the British Library, 96 Euston Road, London. Registration is open at http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/BibData/fyo/about/registration (***Limited to 70 participants***)

(The DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group [1] and the DCMI Vocabulary Management Community [2] will hold inaugural meetings the day before the seminar. The venue for both days is the British Library, St. Pancras, London.)

• IASSIST 2012 Conference (International Association for Social Science and Information Technology)

The theme for this year’s conference is “Data Science for a Connected World:  Unlocking and Harnessing the Power
of Information.”  This theme reflects the growing desire of research communities, government agencies and other organizations to build connections and benefit from the better use of data through practicing good management, dissemination and preservation techniques. The theme is intended to stimulate discussions on building connections across all scholarly disciplines, governments, organizations, and individuals who are engaged in working with data.  IASSIST as a professional organization has a long history of bringing together those who provide information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences.

The conference is scheduled for June 4th – 8th at the Marvin Center, George Washington University, Washington D.C.  Conference Registration is Now Open.