The 2023 NKOS Consolidated Workshop will be held as part of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications on November 9 from 9:00 AM-8:00 PM KST at the Kyungpook National University, in Daegu, South Korea. To enable wide global participation, the consolidated workshop will be scheduled as a series of 3-hour sections, each containing two 90-minute sessions to accommodate Asian, American, and European time zones. Participation in the in-person workshop will require registration included with the rest of the Dublin Core conference. (Those only participating in the in-person workshop will pay a small fee to cover lunch and refreshments). Participation in the virtual workshop will require pre-registration to get access to the online sessions but will be free. 

The data behind the whizzy new AI technology is no older than the World Wide Web—barely 25 years old. It’s important to acknowledge what type of data a pre-trained machine learning algorithm like ChatGPT has been trained on to understand its limitations and potential biases. For example, scholarly and historical content is often not available in consumable, homogenized, and interoperable formats at the large volume that is required for machine learning. Based on a panel I organized for the 2021 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, MIT Press just published this paper that presents the current state of automated metadata annotation in cultural heritage and research data: M. Wu, H. Brandhorst, M. Marinescu, J. Lopez, M. Hlava, and J. Busch. “Automated metadata annotation: What is and is not possible with machine learning.” 5:1 Data Intelligence (2023) 122–138. https://doi.org/10.1162/dint_a_00162.

Taxonomy Strategies is providing Business Classification Scheme consultant services for the African Development Bank (AfDB), a multilateral development finance institution. Our focus is to help the Bank implement a document and records management solution. One of the critical bottlenecks in international development is the appraisal and approval of projects. This involves the formation of teams and documentation of project development activities such as alignment with the Paris Climate Accords, gender equality and other Sustainable Development Goals. In developing countries, the size of projects varies widely, but the project budget is often smaller than in developed countries while the needs are greater. This adds up to more projects with smaller budgets that need to be on-boarded and managed. This results in the major documentation and disclosure challenge.