FW: Call for participation - Open Forum on Metadata Registries - April 2005

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- Open Forum on Metadata Registries - April 2005

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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 relevant. 

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Bruce Bargmeyer

 

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  & Gerhard 
Budin 
Concerning 
the organization: Bruce Bargmeyer 
Local Organizer: 
Fabienne Nawrat 

 

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