[Sigia-l] Of interest to European Subscribers: CEN Metadata andContentManagement Workshop

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded for Joseph Busch.  Dick Hill]

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CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND METADATA WORKSHOP TO BE HELD IN BRUSSELS, 13 JANUARY
2005

 

Content Management and Metadata is the subject of a free workshop to be held
in Brussels at the CEN Meeting Centre on 13 January 2005. Registration is
now open, but limited to the first 60 people. 

 

The workshop will focus on metadata and enterprise content management
systems (ECMS). There will be presentations by experts, implementation case
studies, demonstrations by ECMS vendors, and Q&A with the speakers. 

 

Some important questions that will be addressed include: 

- How do ECMS automate the process of applying metadata to content? 

- What metadata tools are being used to create and maintain metadata in
ECMS? 

- How can metadata values be controlled using standard vocabularies in ECMS?


- How can the Dublin Core metadata schema be extended in ECMS? 

 

Workshop speakers will include:

 

EXPERTS:

Gerry McGovern, Author of "Content Critical" and the "Web Content Style
Guide" (http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/about.htm)

Janne Saarela, CEO, Profium and RDF standard developer
(http://www.profium.com/company/team.html)

Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus
(http://www.intranetfocus.com/about/martinwhite.html) 

 

CASE STUDIES: 

BBC Media Industry Asset Management Application, Arthur Haynes, Principal
Data Architect, and Astrid Horgen, Data Analyst, Siemens Business Services

AstraZeneca R&D, Kerstin Forsberg, Senior Information Architect, Medical
Informatics

Dublin Core Workshop on Metadata for Multimedia Information, Joseph Busch,
Principal, Taxonomy Strategies

 

VENDORS: 

Entopia, Igor Perisic, Chief Scientist 

Documentum - Cornelia Davis, Solutions Architect 

FileNET - Nick Tuson, Director, World Wide Product Management

Interse, Dan Thomsen, Information Architect

Stellent - Simon Shah, European Marketing Director

 

The workshop is organised by: CEN/ISSS WS/MMI-DC

CEN - the European Committee for Standardization

CEN/ISSS - Information Society Standardization System
(http://www.cenorm.be/isss/)

WS/MMI-DC - Workshop on Metadata for Multimedia Information - Dublin Core

 

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DATE AND VENUE

 

Date: 13 January 2005, 10:00-18:00 followed by reception until 19:00

Location: CEN/CENELEC Meeting Centre, Rue de Stassart 36, B-1050 Brussels 

 

Please see
http://www.cenorm.be/cenorm/aboutus/information/visiting+us/index.asp for
directions and hotel information.

 

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REGISTRATION

 

Please return this form to Leif Andresen (mailto:mmi-dc at ofir.dk) as soon as
possible and no later than 31 December 2004, registering your interest to
participate in the CEN/ISSS MMI-DC Workshop on Content Management and
Metadata in Brussels on 13 January 2005. As meeting space is limited to 60
people, registration is on a first-come-first-serve basis. Participation in
the workshop is free of charge.

 

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Please forward this message to other people in your organisation or to other
organisations that you think may be interested in these issues.

 

For any additional questions, please contact Makx Dekkers
(mailto:mail at makxdekkers.com).

 

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Joseph A. Busch

+415-377-7912

fax +415-643-7398

jbusch at taxonomystrategies.com

www.taxonomystrategies.com

 

Taxonomy Strategies:

the business of organized information

 

 

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Richard B. Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
Silver Spring, MD  20910
Fax: (301) 495-0810
Voice: (301) 495-0900