Subject: Call for Participation -- Open Forum on Metadata Registries, January 2000
Gagnon.Stuart@epamail.epa.gov
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:49:59 -0400
From: Gagnon.Stuart@epamail.epa.gov Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:49:59 -0400 Subject: Call for Participation -- Open Forum on Metadata Registries, January 2000 To: arl-ejournal@cni.org Message-Id: <852567EB.00511445.00@EPAHUB2.RTP.EPA.GOV>
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Dear ARL-EJOURNAL readers and contributors:
Members of Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1) of the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) would like to invite all interested
library and information science professionals to attend the Open
Forum on Metadata Registries (details below).
For librarians, the concept of metadata is not new, since nearly all
catalog information could be considered some form of metadata. And,
just as catalog cards are representative of some other information
source, metadata represents and identifies information in a similar
way. The library community's organizational perspective and experience
with metadata concepts has a great deal to offer to standards work on
metadata registries.
The metadata registries standards community seeks dialogue on
library organizational functions and strategies and library reference
perspectives, especially in areas akin to indexing (subject assignment)
and abstracting and information retrieval.
If you are interested in these subject areas, please consider
representing the library community in this standards effort by
attending the Open Forum on Metadata Registries.
To learn more about JTC1 and it's subordinate organizations, see:
Thank you for your consideration and participation.
Sincerely,
--Stu Gagnon, Internet Librarian for Terminology Projects
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Headquarters Information Resources Center
(operated by GCI Information Services)
401 M Street, NW (3404)
Washington, DC 20460
202.260.5928 (voice)
202.260.6257 (fax)
gagnon.stuart@epa.gov
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SC 32 members an liaisons --
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
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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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