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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@infoterm.org & Gerhard
Budin gerhard.budin@univie.ac.at
Concerning
the organization: Bruce Bargmeyer bebargmeyer@lbl.gov
Local Organizer:
Fabienne Nawrat Info@Allround-Team.com
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email: BEBargmeyer@lbl.gov