[Sigia-l] Forward Open Forum Metadata Registries 2005 Call for Participation

[Richard Hill]

Forwarded by request.  Dick Hill


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