DRFIC 2008 - "Open Access and Institutional Repository in Asia-Pacific"
January 30th 2008 - January 31st 2008
Osaka, Japan
http://https://www.t...FIC2008/index_en.php
DRFIC2008 will focus on the open access movement in the world, in the Asia, and in Japan in order to contribute to a better scholarly communication in the world. [More]

DCC/FORTH Joint Tutorial: The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model - A New Standard for Knowledge Sharing
January 29th 2008
University of Glasgow
This tutorial will introduce the audience to the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, a core ontology and ISO standard (ISO 21127) for the semantic integration of cultural information with library, archi... [More]

BOBCATSSS 2008
January 28th 2008 - January 30th 2008
Zadar, Republic of Croatia
http://www.bobcatsss2008.org/
BOBCATSSS is an annual symposium organised by students at a number of universities in Europe. It takes place under the auspieces of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education a... [More]

MMIU 2008 - The First International Workshop on Metadata Mining for Image Understanding
January 22nd 2008
Funchal, Madeira - Portugal
http://www.visapp.org/MMIU.htm
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: – Image metadata pattern discovery and mining – Interaction of image metadata and visual content – Image and video metadata enrichment – Automat... [More]

First DRIVER Summit : Towards a Confederation of Digital Repositories
January 16th 2008 - January 17th 2008
Goettingen, Germany
http://www.driver-su...lti/DRIVERSummit.php
DRIVER responds to the vision that all relevant scientific content should be easily accessible through internet-based infrastructures. Achieving this vision reaches beyond technology - it is also the ... [More]

(AIRS 2008) Fourth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium
January 15th 2008 - January 18th 2008
Harbin, China
http://ir.hit.edu.cn/airs2008/index.html
he Asia Information Retrieval Symposium is the major IR conference in Asia. [More]

Collection development for Web Archives training session
January 10th 2008
The European Web Archive
Paris, France
http://service.europ...ent+Training+Session
The European Web Archive is organizing one-day training sessions on building websites collections in Paris (see dates below). The training will cover all aspects of collection development for libraria... [More]

Metadata and Digital Library Development: an ALCTS and Library of Congress Workshop
January 9th 2008 - January 10th 2008
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.loc.gov/c...a-digital/index.html
Description: In an applied, exercise-based context, this two-day workshop introduces practicing catalogers to metadata implementation considerations and processes in a digital library development cont... [More]

Metadata and Digital Library Development an ALCTS and Library of Congress Workshop
January 9th 2008 - January 10th 2008
ALA MidWinter Event Code: AS1
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.ala.org/a...2008philadelphia.cfm
In an applied, exercise-based context, this two-day workshop introduces practicing catalogers to metadata implementation considerations and processes in a digital library development context. The goal... [More]