A final call for participation in the FREE SCHEMAS workshop
taking place next Friday (30th Nov) in The Hague.
Title: "Sharing schemas: progress and future plans"
The programme can be found at:
http://www.schemas-forum.org/workshops/ws4/programme.html
Best Wishes,
Manjula
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Manjula Patel PhD E-mail: [log in to unmask]
UKOLN Voice: (+44) 1225 826547
University of Bath, Claverton Down, Fax: (+44) 1225 826838
Bath, BANES, BA2 7AY URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
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4th SCHEMAS Workshop: Sharing schemas: progress and future plans
http://www.schemas-forum.org/workshops/ws4/
A one-day workshop, 30th November 2001, The Hague, The Netherlands
co-ordinated by UKOLN
Contact: Events Manager ([log in to unmask])
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The SCHEMAS Project is an accompanying measure under the European Commission's
IST programme. Our aim is to support metadata schema implementers and
designers by making available information about the proper use of new and
emerging metadata standards and by providing guidance on adapting multiple
standards for local use in customised schemas. For further information, see
the SCHEMAS Web site at http://www.schemas-forum.org/.
The SCHEMAS project is hosting a workshop to review means by
which projects can share information about metadata in use, and to
consider ways in which collaboration can be made more effective.
Participants will be updated on recent developments regarding use of
metadata schemas and application profiles. The role of registries in
providing access to information about schemas will be reviewed, and the
SCHEMAS registry will be demonstrated. A forum will be provided for
discussion of future requirements. This will also be an opportunity to
hear from a panel of experts about metadata related activity in their
domains and developments in metadata standards.
This workshop will take place in the context of increasing interest in the
infrastructure needed for the Semantic Web. The semantic coherence of
metadata is a key issue in relation to development of the Semantic Web.
Understanding metadata schemas in a distributed environment depends not
just on sharing vocabularies, but on sharing grammars, or data models.
The metadata schemas native to the tremendous diversity of services on the
Web are based on local data models that often do not readily make sense in
collaborative environments. The SCHEMAS Project has investigated using
RDF, the Resource Description Framework, for expressing the "profiles" of
local metadata models in terms that are mergible across applications. The
construction of environments for discovering metadata semantics in use
("registries"), and the standardisation of such models, or lack thereof,
will determine the semantic coherence and usefulness of metadata on the
Web over the longer term.
Target audience
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There is a common interest across sectors in learning about recent
developments which enable sharing of metadata schemas, and in
contributing to future plans.
This workshop is intended for those involved in building web based systems
whether as metadata creators, system implementers, software developers
within the educational, cultural heritage, government and industrial
sectors.
The workshop will be held at Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library),
The Hague, The Netherlands. Further information about the workshop programme
and costs will be released soon at http://www.schemas-forum.org/workshops/ws4/.
BOOKING DEADLINE: 16th November 2001
Events Manager ([log in to unmask])
UKOLN
University of Bath
BA2 7AY
(+44) (0)1225 826580
