Conference+2014+workshop

=Workshop:Archival Access and the Resource Description Framework (RDF)=
 * The Workshop will be held at the State Archives Prato which is located in the historic Palazzo Datini, close to the Monash Centre
 * To register for the workshop as part of the conference or for the single day, please follow the link.
 * Fees: Workshop only (includes lunch): $AUD130, as part of conference, $AUD115.

The Workshop, to be led by Mirna Willer and Gordon Dunsire, will provide participants with the knowledge and skills to gain a deep understanding of RDF. It will focus on addressing the following challenge: Can RDF sufficiently express or capture the contingencies and nuances arising from a glocal and pluralized framing of archival access?

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Dr. Mirna Willer has been Professor at the University of Zadar, Department of Information Sciences, Croatia, since 2007. She teaches courses in theory and practice of information organisation at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels. She worked from 1980 to 2007 as systems librarian, standards officer and senior researcher at the National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia, responsible for implementing UNIMARC bibliographic and authority formats on the library’s library management software, and for incorporating national cataloguing rules into the formats. Among other international body memberships, she was a chair of the Advisory Task Group of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (1999-2007) responsible for the development of the Heritage of Printed Book Database, a standing member of the IFLA Permanent UNIMARC Committee from its establishment in 1991 until 2005 (chair of Committee from 1997 to 2005), since then she has been its consultant and honorary member. She was also a member of the IFLA Working Group on FRANAR, the group responsible for the conceptual model FRAD, as well as the ISBD Review Group, and ISBD Future Directions Working Group. She was a chair of the ISBD/XML Study Group (2008-2011), and since 2011 its member (in 2013 renamed to ISBD Linked Data Study Group). Since 2011 she is a chair of the ISBD Review Group. She has written more than 100 articles and is a member of the editorial board of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.

Gordon Dunsire has been engaged in the research and application of metadata for cultural heritage resources since 1980. He is Chair of the Joint Steering Committee for RDA: Resource Description and Access, and Chair of the IFLA Namespaces Technical Group (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions). He is also a member of the FRBR Review Group (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and a consultant to the ISBD Review Group (International Standard Bibliographic Description). He was formerly Head of the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde, and was a member of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group. His current research interests are the representation and interoperability of metadata in the Semantic Web and linked data applications. He is widely published, and is the co-author, with Dr. Mirna Willer, of the book //Bibliographic information organization in the Semantic Web.//


 * For more information about the Workshop, contact Tom.Denison AT monash.edu