Metadata for semantic and social applications

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Metadata is essential for our evolving information management, social computing, and scientific collaboration infrastructure. DC-2008 will address challenges, solutions, and innovations related to metadata in semantic and social applications. It plays a crucial role in social computing, which encompasses wikis, blogs, and tagging for enhanced collaboration. Additionally, metadata supports the development of semantic applications and the Semantic Web, which integrates multimedia knowledge structures through semantic models. These trends converge in platforms like Wikipedia, where collective author contributions create structured information that improves access to various information sources. Recent discussions have explored how bibliographic standards can be transformed into Semantic Web vocabularies, facilitating the integration of library and cultural heritage data with other data types. Engaging content providers and end-users to collaboratively link, tag, edit, and describe information in interoperable ways—termed "participatory metadata"—is crucial for creating scalable, self-correcting, and evolving knowledge environments. DC-2008 will delve into both conceptual and practical issues surrounding the development and deployment of semantic and social applications tailored to the needs of specific communities of practice.