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The following meeting announcement may be of interest. Clifford
Call for Participation
Open Forum on Metadata Registries
January 2000
This is a call for participation in the SC 32/WG 2 Open Forum on
Metadata Registries, which will be held January 17-21, 2000 in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, USA. You are invited to register to attend. You may also
participate by contributing relevant papers or web links. This is the fourth in a series of international conferences on this
topic. Participants from private enterprise, government, academe and
standards organizations will explore the capabilities, uses, content,
development and operation of metadata registries, particularly those
based on ISO/IEC 11179. Emphasis is on managing the content (semantics)
of data that is shared within and between organizations or disseminated
via the World Wide Web
This Open Forum will highlight ongoing metadata registry efforts with
"tracks" that describe metadata management activities in the fields of
health care, environmental protection/cleanup, statistics & demographics
(e.g., census and labor/economic statistics), transportation,
aeronautics & space, geographic information, electronic commerce and
emerging technologies (e.g., XML, common business objects and object
query interfaces). In addition to a focus on managing metadata about data elements and
structures containing data elements (e.g., data models, data bases, EDI
messages, queries, reports, regulations, standards, etc.), special
attention will be given to managing basic semantics -- concepts and
concept structures: controlled vocabularies, dictionaries, thesauri,
ontologies and data element components such as value domains. Presentations will range from use of metadata registries for data
standardization/data documentation to advanced uses including a
demonstration of Intelligent Information Services--an ontology-based
agent system for accessing environmental data in systems dispersed
between US and European organizations. For complete information, see:
http://www.nist.gov/openforum2000
The Open Forum is Organized by:
International Organization for Standardization / International
Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC)
Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1)
Subcommittee 32 - Data Management and Interchange (SC 32)
Working Group 2 - Metadata (WG 2)
Please feel free to circulate this call for participation to any
distribution lists that you think appropriate.
Bruce Bargmeyer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
401 "M" Street, S.W., Mail Code 3408
Washington, DC 20460
Tel:202-260-5306, FAX: 202-401-8390
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