Three Webinars on Metadata and Standards

March 2, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Three Webinars on Metadata and Standards

March 2, 2011 – The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) have announced they will be continuing their educational partnership in 2011 with three joint webinars on topics related to metadata, linked data, and RDA vocabularies.

The first webinar in the series is scheduled for March 26, 2011 on the topic of Metadata Harmonization: Making Standards Work Together. Featured speakers are Mikael Nilsson, a PhD in media technology from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

The second webinar on International Bibliographic Standards, Linked Data, and the Impact on Library Cataloging will take place on August 24, 2011.

The third, The RDA Vocabularies: Implementation, Extension, and Mapping, will take place on November 16, 2011.

Each of the webinars in the series will take place from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time). Registration fees for the event are $89 for US- or Canadian-based members of NISO or DCMI and $104 for international members. Non-members of either organization can register for $119 for U.S. and Canadian registrants and $144 for international registrants. More information about the webinars and registration is available by visiting their website.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.