Successful Bid to Host Metadata International Conference in Daegu... To Be Held at Kyungpook National University in November

200 Domestic and International Experts Participate

Daegu Convention Bureau and the National Debt Redemption Movement Memorial Project announced on the 27th that they have successfully attracted the ‘21st Dublin Core Metadata International Conference (DCMI 2023),’ the world’s only conference in the field of metadata, to Daegu.

Starting with the submission of a letter of intent in May last year, the ‘DCMI 2023,’ confirmed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative board, is expected to be attended by over 200 domestic and international experts, the highest authorities in the field of metadata. The event is co-hosted by the National Debt Redemption Movement Memorial Project and Kyungpook National University, and sponsored by the Daegu Convention Bureau.

Daegu Convention Bureau.

Held from November 6 to 11, 2023, at Kyungpook National University, this event commemorates the 6th anniversary of the inscription of the National Debt Redemption Movement records as a UNESCO Memory of the World. Led by Professor Emeritus Osamgyun (Sungkyunkwan University, Department of Library and Information Science), Professors Kim Heeseop (Kyungpook National University, Department of Library and Information Science), experts from libraries and related fields, university and research center specialists, as well as top domestic and international experts in metadata will participate as organizing committee members and keynote speakers.

Additionally, this conference will gather domestic and international experts interested in metadata, which includes access information to records such as titles, abstracts, and publication dates, to deeply discuss various topics and contents.

On the final day of DCMI 2023, the conference will review the exhibition and educational service directions for the records of the National Debt Redemption Movement, an economic sovereignty movement and one of Korea’s UNESCO Memory of the World heritage items. Through this, it is expected to establish an academic foundation that allows the value of the Memory of the World to be more easily understood and accessed by the public and people worldwide.

Lee Myungsik, Executive Director of the National Debt Redemption Movement Memorial Project, said, “With the help of Professor Emeritus Osamgyun of Sungkyunkwan University and several overseas scholars this year, we are very pleased to establish various academic infrastructure bases for the nationwide and global promotion of the spirit of the National Debt Redemption Movement in Daegu, the proud cradle of patriotic culture.” He added, “Based on this, we will develop the spirit of sharing and responsibility of the National Debt Redemption Movement into an international cultural heritage representing the Republic of Korea.”

Professor Osamgyun stated, “At DCMI 2023, metadata experts from diverse fields such as library and information science, computer engineering, humanities, and social sciences will participate to deeply discuss related topics, aiming to widely promote the spirit of ‘sharing and responsibility’ of the National Debt Redemption Movement worldwide and contribute to the revitalization of local archives.”

Baeyoungchul, CEO of Daegu Convention Bureau, said, “We are pleased to provide an opportunity for people worldwide to access the records of the National Debt Redemption Movement, which started in Daegu, through metadata, and we will spare no support to successfully hold the academic conference in Daegu.”

The National Debt Redemption Movement Memorial Project, the domestic host of this conference, is an organization established to commemorate the historical significance and spirit of the National Debt Redemption Movement initiated in February 1907 and to inherit its spirit. It continuously promotes various programs for the globalization of the spirit of the National Debt Redemption Movement, including academic conferences, educational programs, and monument construction related to the movement.

The Memorial Project and Professor Osamgyun have also been working on the ‘Globalization Project of the National Debt Redemption Movement Records Data,’ registered as a UNESCO Memory of the World. In 2022, they visited the National Library and Archives of Finland, the University of Edinburgh Library, the Hamburg State and University Library of Economics in Germany, the University of Helsinki Library, the Berlin State Library, the Free University of Berlin Library, and the National Library of France. They are making efforts to expose and link existing data held by these institutions with the National Debt Redemption Movement records data through metadata.

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