User:Nicole/DC 2008

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=Trip Report: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2008 (DC 2008)= Event: Dublin Core Conference, Berlin, 22. - 26. September 2008

Participants MPDL: Andreas Gros, Malte Dreyer, Wilhelm Frank, Kristina Büchner, Laurent Romary, Traugott Koch, Nicole Kondic

Programm and Materials:
 * Conference Website
 * Conference Program

Summary: The overall topic of this year's Dublin Core Conference was metadata for semantic and social applications.

Tutorial of the University of applied sciences, Potsdam
Students of the University of applied sciences in Potsdam gave tutorials about topics most of you might be already well informed on. The topics where:


 * Dublin Core Conference for beginners
 * Introduction to the semantic web
 * Introduction to RDA (resource description and access)
 * Introduction to social tagging/computing

Still I want to emphasize these tutorials, because they are based on E-Learning modules, created by the students, which are very nice. The e-tutorials can be found under: http://fabdax.fh-potsdam.de/dcmoodle/

Facilitating Wiki/Repository Communication with Metadata, by L.M. Bartolo; C.S. Lowe and R. Tandy
The Project (by the Natural Science Digital Library) report was about how to integrate Wiki data (e.g. articles, pictures) into a (fedora based) institutional repository and the other way round.

For the integration of the wiki data to the repository they created the wiki2fedora application, which:
 * runs at scheduled intervals,
 * identifies new/changed wiki file uploads,
 * extracts available MD from the wiki,
 * converts the wiki MD to DC MD
 * and ingests it into fedora

For the integration of the repository data to the wiki they have added the wiki syntax, so that the wiki user can add links to the repository, which appears in a separate box in the wiki.

Links

 * Presentation at DC 2008