Call for Participation -- Open Forum on Metadata Registries, January 2000 (fwd)

[Roy Tennant]

Forwarded by request, please do not reply to me.
Roy

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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:39:42 -0400
From: Gagnon.Stuart at epamail.epa.gov

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[Apologies for CROSS-POSTING.]

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 and information scientists, the concept of metadata is not new,
since nearly all catalog and database components 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 and information science 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 organizational
functions and strategies and 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 and information science community in this standards effort by attending
the Open Forum on Metadata Registries.

To learn more about JTC1 and it's subordinate organizations, see:

http://www.jtc1.org/

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 at epa.gov

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From: Bargmeyer.Bruce at epa.gov
To: sc32-news at nist.gov

Subject:  Call for Participation -- Open Forum on Metadata Registries, January
2000

SC 32 members, liaisons and prospective participants --

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
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
401 M Street, S.W., Mail Code 3408
Washington, DC 20460
Tel:202-260-5306, FAX: 202-401-8390