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International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2008 (22-26 Sept. in Berlin)

2008-07-28T15:15:29Z

With apologies for cross-posting.
Posted per request of Mirjam Kessler
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Dear all, plan your stay in advance and benefit from the early bird
rates for the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata
Applications 2008
(DC-2008) to be held from 22 through 26 September in Berlin. This
year's conference will focus on metadata for social and semantic

Call for Volunteers, ALA ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms

2008-07-28T15:12:34Z

Posted to multiple lists. Please excuse duplication.
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The ALA ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group is looking for a
volunteer to serve as Co-vice Chair for 2008-2009. After serving for
one year as Co-vice Chair, with Michael Kim, from the University of
Miami, you will become Co-chair for 2009-2010. You are expected to

Symposium on Applied Computing: Call For Papers

2008-07-28T15:03:22Z

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The 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009) March 8-12,
2009 ,
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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[link]
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Buscan darle a cada casa su biblioteca (Mexico)

2008-07-28T14:58:20Z

La propuesta hecha por el presidente Felipe Calderón en la firma de la
promulgación de la Ley de Fomento para la Lectura y el Libro, consiste
en dotar de una biblioteca básica a las casas mexicanas

Inaugurada en Cuba primera Biblioteca Virtual en Salud

2008-07-28T14:55:45Z

Un proyecto regional de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS)
para facilitar el acceso de manera equitativa a recursos de
información en Ciencias de la Salud disponibles en Internet fue
inaugurado en La Habana.
Amparo Zequeira, Representante de la OPS participó en la apertura del
primer punto de presencia de la Biblioteca Virtual en Salud (BVS),

Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

2008-07-28T14:54:06Z

Dear all,
I am currently editing a reference book on "Metadata, Semantics and
Ontologies" with the same cross-disciplinary scope of the IJMSO
journal ([link] ).
You can find more information and follow up the progress of the book
at this page:
[link]

OAI6 : 6th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication

2008-07-28T14:31:44Z

Apologies for cross-posting
Make a place in your diaries for the next OAI workshop: OAI6, the 6th
Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, which will be held
in Geneva, Switzerland:
Wednesday 17th to Friday 19th June 2009.
The workshop will follow the successful format of previous workshops

Proyecto Biblioteca Digital Colombiana

2008-07-28T14:29:24Z

Presentación del proyecto de Biblioteca Digital Colombiana en el Taller
Internacional sobre Acceso Abierto, Trieste, Italia, Julio 2008
[link]
En el pasado Taller internacional sobre modelos de Acceso Abierto para la
difusión de la Ciencia ([link]), realizado en el

Indicadores para Bibliotecas Universitarias (Peru)

2008-07-28T14:27:23Z

Seminario taller "Indicadores para Bibliotecas Universitarias"
La Asamblea Nacional de Rectores del Perú (ANR) y el Comité de
Bibliotecas Universitarias (COBUN) han programado para el jueves 14 y
viernes 15 de agosto de 2008 la realización del seminario-taller:
"Indicadores para Bibliotecas Universitarias"

Drupal: MLibrary's Future CMS

2008-07-28T14:06:26Z

The University of Michigan Library is in the process of a major site
redesign. Part of this design is moving -- at long last -- from static pages
built on SSI to a full-blown content management system. We started with a
review of the (mostly open source) CMS software landscape, and winnowed this
list down to nine candidate systems worth a deeper look:

Drupal: MLibrary's Future CMS

2008-07-28T13:36:46Z

SOFIA2008: abstracts now available

2008-07-28T13:26:01Z

The fifth biennial conference SOFIA2008 has over 80 presentations
scheduled this year, with topics including...
Information literacy
Education in LIS
Digital and virtual libraries
Access to electronic networks
Information architectures and KM
Information industry and KM
Organization and classification issues

Last call for papers: African Digital Scholarship & Curation 2009

2008-07-22T13:37:13Z

Call for Speakers: [link]
If you would like to be considered as a speaker, please submit your abstract
to Dr Heila Pienaar ( mailto:heila.pien...@up.ac.za )- maximum 250 words
(deadline: 31 July 2008).
Suggested topics:
e-Research & e-Science
Digital data management and curation

DSpace Can Support One Million Items

2008-07-19T15:04:36Z

A paper by researchers from the National Library of Medicine ("Testing
the Scalability of a DSpace-based Archive") finds that DSpace can
support an archive with a million items. The tested system "is built
upon MIT's DSpace software (Version 1.4), with some modifications and
enhancements to better facilitate batch based processing."

Cites & Insights 8:8 available

2008-07-19T00:00:14Z

Cites & Insights 8:8 <[link]>, August 2008,
is now available. The whole issue is PDF, but individual essays are
available in HTML from the C&I home page <[link]> or
the article links below.
The 28-page issue includes:
- *(c)4: Locking Down Technology* - A number of skirmishes in the ongoing