Dear all,
Good news! We have additional scholarship tickets available for the June
and September 2022 GLAM Certificate courses
<https://certificates.creativecommons.org/>. Read more about our program at
the bottom of this email.
To access a 60% scholarship for your upcoming GLAM Certificate course,
please follow these directions by the end of this week:
1) Select the June or September GLAM Certificate course from the list here
<https://www.classy.org/event/2022-cc-certificate-course-registration/e35473…>
.
2) When registering for your course, select the option to “add promo code”
and type in: GLAMSCHOLAR60%. That will provide you with a 60% discount on
registration.
Notes:
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We have a limited number of scholarships. Please complete registration
ASAP this week to claim the discount before tickets run out.
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Because our current funding for scholarships expires shortly, so we
cannot accommodate late requests, refunds or transfers. Please let us know
if you have any difficulties.
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We anticipate having scholarships for future GLAM courses.
Program information:
The CC Certificate for GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) is
a professional development training for institutions or community groups
engaged in cultural heritage. As more GLAMs adapt to increasingly online
audiences and users, they often seek Creative Commons legal tools,
expertise and community support. Cultural heritage institutions share a
common goal with Creative Commons: to make knowledge and culture globally
accessible.
In the CC Certificate for GLAM, community members will develop capacity in
opening access to cultural heritage. They will develop a deeper
understanding of open licensing and copyright considerations with
digitization projects, Rights Statements, Traditional Knowledge Labels,
working with the public domain, and more.
CC Certificate for GLAM participants will also gain access to a global
community of professionals and activists working toward similar cultural
and policy changes in their own cultural heritage institutions.
Best,
Jennryn
Jennryn Wetzler
Director of Learning and Training
Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/>
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Call for Papers, apologies for cross-posting
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SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS
Part of the 16th International Conference on
Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2022),
November 7th - 11th 2022, London, UK
Paper Submission Deadline: 28th August, 2022
http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2022/
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Proceedings will be published in Springer CCIS series. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, SCImago,
EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, DBLP, Google Scholar. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the
inclusion in ISI Proceedings.
** AIM AND SCOPE
Cultural Heritage collections are essential knowledge infrastructures that provide a solid
representation of the historical background of human communities. These knowledge infrastructures
are constructed from and integrate cultural information derived from diverse memory institutions,
mainly libraries, archives and museums. Each individual community has spent a lot of effort
in order to develop, support and promote its own systems, tools and metadata for the management
of cultural information, mainly related to its particular resources and use.
In this framework, the management of the cultural information has to deal with challenges related to
(i) metadata modeling, specification, standardization, extraction, (semantic) enrichment, mapping,
integration, effective use, and evaluation, (ii) knowledge representation as conceptualization to
provide the context for unambiguously interpreting metadata, and (iii) information integration from
different contexts for the provision of integrated access, reuse and advanced services to users.
At the same time, there are also inter-domain efforts targeted to semantically align data (research
data, educational data, public sector information etc.) to cultural information. New challenges are
also emerged from the need to incorporate cultural information into the new publication paradigms,
where a variety of resources (data, metadata, processes, results, etc) are linked and integrated,
providing better shareability and reusability. Currently, Linked (Open) Data, as part of the
Semantic Web Technology, is having a major role in modernizing cultural heritage collections.
Providing to users the possibility to re-use and integrate data into their own systems is currently
more than a need, given that transparency and access to information is a prerequisite. A critical
factor to the effectiveness of many aspects of all the above efforts is the quality of metadata,
as interpreted by its context and use and evaluated by the proper measures and methods. Many
institutions and aggregate infrastructures are dealing with the poor quality of metadata that
inevitably results in poor integration, search and reuse, while their enrichment, in terms of
contextualization, co-referencing, alignment, etc, is really challenging.
The aim of this Special Track is to maintain a dialogue where researchers and practitioners working
on all the aspects of the cultural information will come together and exchange ideas about open issues
at all stages of the cultural heritage information life cycle. The track also welcomes works related to
semantics and applications for new approaches to cultural information publication and sharing, as well
as to interlinking to other datasets published in the Semantic Web universe.
TOPICS
The papers in this special track should be original and of high quality, addressing issues in areas
such as:
* Cultural Heritage metadata models, standards, ontologies, knowledge organization and representation systems
* Cultural Heritage information integration, interoperability and mappings
* Automated extraction of metadata, entities, and patterns from Cultural Heritage resources
* Metadata manual or automated (Semantic) enrichment and search
* Metadata quality metrics, tools and services
* Linked Open Data approaches in the Cultural Heritage domain
* Publication, linking and citation of Cultural Heritage information and resources
* Large volume content management
* 3D models-indexing, storage and retrieval approaches
* Infrastructures for sharing content
* Digital Curation workflows and models
* Provenance and preservation metadata for Cultural Heritage digital resources
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages). Submitted papers have to
follow the LNCS proceedings formatting style and guidelines.
Submissions should be original and not previously submitted, published and under review to other
Conferences or Journals.The submitted papers will undergo the same peer review as the submissions
for MTSR 2022 and accepted contributions will be published in the MTSR 2022 proceedings (Springer CCIS
series). Authors of accepted papers will be asked to register to the Conference and present their work.
Selected papers might be considered for a revised and extended version to be published in a range of
international journals, including the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
(Inderscience), and Data Technologies and Applications (previously published as Program, Emerald).
More information on submission can be found at the MTSR 2022 call for papers web page.
IMPORTANT DATES
August 28th, 2022: NEW Submission deadline!
September 30th, 2022: Notification of decision (Acceptance/Rejection)
October 16th, 2022: Camera-ready papers due
November 7th - 11th 2022, MTSR Conference will take place at the University
College London, London, UK
SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
* Michalis Sfakakis, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece (sfakakis(a)ionio.gr)
* Lina Bountouri, Dept. Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece and
EU Publications Office - European Commission, Luxembourg (boudouri(a)ionio.gr, linabountouri(a)gmail.com)