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2nd Schemas Workshop: Publishing and sharing your metadata
application profile.
http://www.schemas-forum.org/
A two-day workshop, 23-24th November 2000, Bonn, Germany,
co-ordinated by UKOLN and GMD.
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Implementation projects generally find that no one metadata standard
will completely meet their descriptive needs. General standards such
as Dublin Core must often be used alongside domain- or sector-specific
standards such as MPEG-7 for multimedia and IEEE/LOM for educational
resources; and new elements may be needed for local needs not covered
by any of the existing standards. Recent practice distinguishes
between the definition of semantics in "namespaces" (i.e. official
standards) and the reuse and interpretation of those semantics in
"application profiles". Application profiles are schemas that combine
elements from multiple standards, perhaps with application-specific
constraints, such as the use of specific controlled vocabularies.
This workshop will present the state of the art in constructing and
publishing an application profile. It will look at how a profile may
be declared in XML or RDF, especially in light of new metadata
harvesters that support the indexing and browsing of standards and
application profiles located on multiple Web servers.
Participants in the workshop will gain an understanding of the
conceptual issues involved in ongoing debates about application
profiles and come away with concrete guidelines for creating and
publishing profiles for their own projects. The workshop will present
the SCHEMAS Project registry which enables implementers to share
information about their schema.
The workshop will conclude with a look at how schema harvesters may be
used to harmonize metadata usage within a particular field or within a
cluster of projects. Harmonisation of metadata usage is an essential
foundation for the construction of federated digital libraries and
portals.
Apart from the specific issues addressed in the workshop, this event is
an opportunity for metadata schema developers from a wide range of
domains to meet and discuss common problems and interoperable
solutions.
SCHEMAS is an accompanying measure under the European Commission's IST
programme, aiming to guide and educate metadata schema implementers about
the status and proper use of new and emerging metadata standards, and to
promote good-practice guidelines for adapting multiple standards or
metadata modules for local use in customised schemas. For further
information, see the SCHEMAS Web site at http://www.schemas-forum.org.
The 2nd Schemas workshop will be held at the Gustav-Stresemann Institute
in Bonn, Germany. Booking details for the workshop can be found at the
SCHEMAS web site, http://www.schemas-forum.org/.
*** Places are limited, and we would like to involve participants from
a range of countries and sectors. To facilitate this we will not confirm
bookings until mid-October. Please do not make travel arrangements before
you recieve confirmation of your booking ***
BOOKING DEADLINE: 1st November, 2000
Best wishes
Joy
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Joy Fraser, Events Manager
UKOLN,
The Library
University of Bath, BA2 7AY
Voice: +44 1225 826256 Fax: +44 1225 826838
http://ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/j.v.fraser.html
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