[Asis-l] FYI: OpenForum on Metadata Registries to Focus on Semantic Web Interoperability

[Gailhodge at aol.com]

I thought ASIST members might be interested in the following conference which 
will focus on metadata and semantic web interoperability -- Gail Hodge
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Dear NKOS Members,

I thought you might be interested in the following call for participation. -- 
Gail

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Here is the call for participation for Open Forum 2005. Please forward it to 
anyone or any list that you think may be interested. 

[ My apologies to anyone who receives multiple copies of this message due to 
multiple postings.]



Gail Hodge

 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


Eighth International Open Forum on Metadata Registries (Open Forum 2005)

www.berlinopenforum.de


The theme for Open Forum 2005 will be: Semantic Interoperability: Where 
Meaning Meets Metadata.


You are invited to participate. The Open Forum will be held in Berlin, 
Germany, April 11 - 14, 2005. This is the eighth in a series of international 
conferences about topics related to metadata registries. Participants will explore 
the capabilities, uses, content, development, and operation of registries and 
related technologies. Semantics management - for data, concepts and terminology 
- is becoming especially important, so the emphasis for Open Forum 2005 is on 
the confluence of terminology and metadata registry standards.

This Open Forum will concentrate on Metadata Registry and Terminology 
standards and their associated technologies and issues: 


ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registries 
ISO 704 Terminology work - Principles and methods 
ISO 12620 Computer applications in terminology - Data categories 
International Standards on language resource management covering for instance 
feature structure representation, morphosyntactic annotation framework, 
linguistic Annotation Framework, lexical markup framework, etc. 
Other types of metadata registries such as XML registries, business object 
registries, etc. 
Extensions to metadata registries to enable registration of complex semantic 
structures such as ontologies 
Use of metadata registries as semantic resources for semantics-based 
computing 
Provision of semantic services for data grids and the semantic web, and 
Questions of the granularity and composition of metadata into core components 
/elements (and their possible de-composition) These technologies help 
enterprise managers to manage their data, information systems, and information 
services. They lead the way toward semantics management and knowledge management. 
The technologies are important not only for managing the content of databases 
and XML data transfers, but also lay the foundation for a coming wave of 
semantics-based computing. Semantic interoperability is essential for a very broad 
range of capabilities from traditional applications to the semantic web. The 
conference will gather standards developers, software developers, and 
practitioners together to demonstrate accomplishments and to discuss current and future 
efforts.

 

To see the agenda, click: www.berlinopenforum.de/tracks.html

 


Tutorials
On the first day, tutorials will be given on standards and associated 
technologies, with a focus on cooperation and interoperation of these standards and 
technologies. The following days will present case studies, implementation 
experiences, practical applications, research projects and advanced development 
activities. The level of the presentations will vary from high-level 
descriptions to technical-level specifics.

Open Forum 2005 Goals:
The central goal of this Open Forum is to share knowledge and experience 
about standards and implementation experiences. The Open Forum sessions will 
examine emerging technologies and describe what people are doing and planning in 
their implementation efforts. The sessions will also explore the fundamental 
concepts and the direction of research and development efforts.

Organized by:

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)/

Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1)/

Subcommittee 32 – Data Management and Interchange/ WG 2 – Metadata

And

ISO Technical Committee 37 – Terminology and Related Language Resources 
standards. 


Please mark your calendars for this event in Berlin, 11 to 14 April, 2005
contact: 

Concerning the scientific programme: 
Christian Galinski cgalinski at infoterm.org & Gerhard Budin 
gerhard.budin at univie.ac.at
Concerning the organization: Bruce Bargmeyer bebargmeyer at lbl.gov
Local Organizer: Fabienne Nawrat Info at Allround-Team.com

 


Gail Hodge
Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa)
312 Walnut Pl.
Havertown, PA  19083
610-789-6769 (v)
865-742-5430 (m)
865-481-0390 (f)
gailhodge at aol.com
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