2nd Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2008)
October 30th 2008
in conjunction with 17th ACM CIKM 2008
Napa Valley, California
http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wicow2
The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion about issues related to information credibility and its evaluation. As computers and computer networks become more sophisticated, a hug... [More]

Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age
October 29th 2008
Montreal, Canada
http://www.docam.ca/en
The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together graduate students across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in order to explore the many facets of media art preservation. [More]

Copyright for Repositories - Staff Training Workshop
October 28th 2008 - October 28th 2008
Repositories Support Project
University of Northampton (UK)
http://www.rsp.ac.uk...2008-10-28/index.php
Contact:
Copyright for Repositories Staff Training Workshop is held by Repositories Support Project and SUETr (Start-up and Enhancement Projects Training). The purpose of this event is to help repository ma... [More]

The 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008)
October 26th 2008 - October 30th 2008
Karlsruhe, Germany
http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/
The Web continues to grow and new technologies, modes of interactions, and applications are being developed. Building on this growth, Semantic Web technologies aim at providing a shared semantic infor... [More]

OAEI-2008 - Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative
October 26th 2008
Karlsruhe, Germany
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/
OAEI-2008 is the fifth OAEI campaign. It will consist of four tracks gathering eight data sets and different evaluation modalities. The tracks cover: (i) comparison track (systematic benchmark ser... [More]

ACM Seventeenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM 2008
October 26th 2008 - October 30th 2008
Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa, California, USA
http://cikm2008.org/registration.php
CONFERENCE THEMES Since 1992, the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from the database, information re... [More]

VSMM 2008 "Digital Heritage: Our Hi-tech-STORY for the Future"
October 20th 2008 - October 26th 2008
Limassol, Cyprus
http://www.vsmm2008.org/
The VSMM 2008 joint event will focus on interdisciplinary and multi- disciplinary research concerning both cutting edge Cultural Heritage Informatics and use of technology for the representation, d... [More]

Digital Preservation Training Programme
October 20th 2008 - October 22nd 2008
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK
http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/dptp/
Contact:
The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is predicated on the need for institutions to combine organisational and technological perspectives to devise an appropriate response to the challeng... [More]

Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions for Long-Term Problems
October 19th 2008 - October 24th 2008
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
http://www.icpsr.umi...rkshops/fiveday.html
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), at the University of Michigan is offering a digital preservation training program based on and continuing the curriculum deve... [More]

The Frankfurt Book Fair
October 15th 2008 - October 19th 2008
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
http://www.frankfurt...ir.com/en/portal.php
Everyone who is anyone in the industry will be there: authors and publishers, booksellers and librarians, art dealers and illustrators, agents and journalists, information brokers and readers. Not on... [More]

Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
October 14th 2008 - October 17th 2008
London, UK
http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/
The availability of information across media and genres, across languages, and across modalities constantly increases. How people access this information is highly dependent on the context of their in... [More]

Workshop: Stewardship of Digital Assets
October 14th 2008 - October 15th 2008
The Northeast Document Conservation Center
Tacoma, Washington
http://www.nedcc.org...ps/soda/sodadesc.php
Through a combination of lecture, case studies, and interactive sessions, a faculty of digital experts will lead an interactive, hands-on workshop. You will learn about the long-term needs of the digi... [More]

IADIS international conference WWW/Internet 2008
October 13th 2008 - October 15th 2008
Freiburg, Germany
http://www.internet-conf.org/
The IADIS WWW/Internet 2008 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet. WWW and Internet had a huge development in recent years. Aspects of concern are no longer just te... [More]

DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop
October 6th 2008 - October 10th 2008
Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
Edinburgh (Scotland)
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/904/
Contact:
To assist researchers in developing sound data management and curation plans, the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has developed the Digital Curation 101 course to provide an introduction to digital c... [More]