Information for Authors
Full papers, project reports and posters are accepted for the DC-2009 Conference Proceedings. Word templates correctly formatted for each category of submission are available:
- Full papers and project reports
- Posters
Content & Assessment Criteria
- Full Papers. Research and practice papers that advance our knowledge of metadata in operation. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length and should address challenging areas of metadata theory or application.
Full papers will be assessed using the following criteria:
- Originality of the approach to implementation
- Generalizability of the methods and results described
- Quality of the contribution to the implementation community
- Significance of the results presented
- Clarity of presentation
- Project Reports. Project reports are no more than 5 pages in length and have the potential to inform “best practices” and provide solutions to seemingly intractable and commonly experienced metadata problems. Project reports should include at a minimum: (1) a short introduction characterizing the problem addressed by the project or implementation; (2) a description of the project including: (a) an example showing how metadata is used or implemented; and (b) a diagram of the application architecture; (3) a brief description of planned next steps; and (4) a full set of URLs to the project.
Project reports will be assessed using the following criteria:
- Conciseness and completeness of technical description
- Usability of the technical description by other potential implementers
- Clarity of presentation
- Posters. Posters are for the presentation of extended abstracts no more than 2 pages in length for projects or research under development or late-breaking results.
Posters will be assessed using the following criteria:
- Concise statement of research or project goals and milestones
- Significance of the research or project
- Framing of key barriers and future research
- Statement of results and accomplishments
- Clarity of presentation