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>Dear LIS-ELIB 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 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)
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>From: [log in to unmask]
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>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
>
>
Elizabeth Graham
Development Co-ordinator: eLib Programme Office
University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
Tel: 01203 572521 Fax: 01203 524981
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