(With apologies for any cross-posting, and please pass on to interested colleagues...)

The deadline is now very close for submissions to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, to be held in Vienna 19-24 April.

Please consider submitting an abstract to session ESSI9 “Data and Metadata Models & Mark-up Languages”. Submissions are invited on topics including (but not limited to) the following:

·       Data and Metadata schemas for the Geosciences

·       Mark-up languages

·       Conceptual models for scientific data types

·       ISO coverages and features as different views onto data

·       Multi-dimensional data modeling

·       Observations and measurements models and schemas

·       Harmonization of data and metadata models for Geospatial Information and Earth and Space Sciences

·       Integrating binary formats with conceptual schemas and mark-up languages

·       Multilingualism

·       Data and metadata granularity

·       Discovery, evaluation and use metadata

·       Exposing data models through web-based services

Please submit abstracts by this Tuesday 13 January 2009:

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/session/410

Many thanks,

Andrew Woolf

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Dr Andrew Woolf ([log in to unmask])
Environmental e-Science and Spatial Informatics
STFC e-Science Centre
Rutherford Appleton Lab
Chilton, Didcot, Oxon., OX11 0QX, UK
Ph: +44 (0)1235 778027
http://www.e-science.stfc.ac.uk/organisation/staff/andrew_woolf

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