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2010-03-15, Please note that the deadline (2 April 2010) for the Call for Papers for DC-2010 , to be held 20-22October 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, is rapidly approaching. We arelooking forward to your submissions for full papers, projectreports and posters/demonstrations.

2010-03-15, A number of changes have taken place over the lastcouple of weeks in the leadership of three DCMI Communities: AndrewWilson of the Australian National Data Service was appointedco-moderator of the DCMI PreservationCommunity ; Sarah Hartmann of the German National Libraryreplaced Christine Frodl as co-moderator of the DCMI LibrariesCommunity ; and Muriel Foulonneau of Centre Henri Tudor inLuxembourg took over from Ann Apps as moderator of the DCMI CollectionDescription Community . Sarah Hartmann has joined the DCMI AdvisoryBoard .

I was recently on a panel at the South by South West interactive conference (SXSW) where we discussed multiple applications of the real-time Web and the things that might prevent us from seeing its true potential. I’ve found it interesting that the key take away from the panel is that privacy issues will be one of the biggest problems we will face as we move forward. You can see this perspective in CNN’s coverage of the panel in the story Privacy concerns hinder ‘real-time Web’ creation, developers say and GigaOm’s write-up SXSW: Is Privacy on the Social Web a Technical …

There was last week an invitation-based roundtable about semantic data management in Sofia, Bulgaria . Lots of smart people together. The meeting was hosted by Ontotext and chaired by Dieter Fensel . On the database side we had Ontotext, SYSTAP ( Bigdata ), CWI ( MonetDB ), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (YARS2/ SWSE ). LarKC was well represented, being our hosts, with STI, Ontotext, CYC, and VU Amsterdam . Notable absences were Oracle , Garlik , Franz , and Talis. Now of semantic data management… What is the difference between a relational database and a semantic repository, a triple/quad store, …

China’s national standards body CNIS has a draft document outGuide for the Implementation of the Inclusion of Patents inNational Standards. (For an English translation see the firstcolumn of this.) Wang Yiyi’s China’s Approach to Standards-relatedIntellectual…