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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:50:14 -0800
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Subject: Open Forum on Metadata Registries (Open Forum 2006) Call for
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Ninth International Open Forum on Metadata Registries (Open Forum 2006)

http://www.tiu.ac.jp/org/openforum2006

You are invited to participate. The Open Forum will be held in Kobe, Japan
March 20 - 22, 2006. This is the ninth forum in a series of international
conferences about topics related to metadata registries.

You are receiving this message because you participated in a previous Open
Forum.

[Apologies to anyone who receives multiple copies of this message due to
multiple postings.]

The Main theme for Open Forum 2006 is
Harmonization of Terminology, Ontology and Metadata.

Participants will explore the capabilities, uses, content, development, and
operation of registries and related technologies. Semantics management - for
concepts and terminology - is becoming especially important, so the emphasis
for Open Forum 2006 is on the confluence of terminology and metadata
registry standards.

This Open Forum will concentrate on the following 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.

Metamodel framework which enables the registration of models and
metamodels
Metamodel which describes Ontologies
Metamodels or Catalogues for Production Parts

Extensions to metadata registries to enable registration of complex
semantic structures such as ontologies

Ontology Lifecycle Management

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

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 2006 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
(http://metadata-standards.org/)

And

ISO Technical Committee 37 - Terminology and Related Language Resources
standards.


Please mark your calendars for this event in Kobe, Japan - 20 to 22 March,
2006.