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SUO: Open Forum 2003 Conference Announcement




[I am forwarding this conference announcement because I believe it might be of interest to you.  Sorry if you have received this more than once. -FF]


Open Forum 2003
2003-01-20 / 2003-01-24
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
URL: http://metadata-stds.org/open-forum-2003

This is the sixth in a series of  international conferences on this topic. Participants will explore the capabilities, uses, content, development, and operation of registries and related technologies. Emphasis is on managing the semantics (meaning) of data that is shared within and between organizations or disseminated via the World Wide Web.

This Open Forum will concentrate on the following technologies:

     ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registries 
     Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) 
     XML Registries/Repositories 
     Database Catalogs (e.g., relational DBMS/SQL) 
     CASE Tool Repositories 
     Software Component Registries 
     Ontological Registries 
     Dublin Core Registries 

Tutorials will be given on these technologies and on the relevant standards. A theme will be cooperation and interoperation of these technologies.

This Open Forum will highlight ongoing efforts with "tracks" that describe and demonstrate the practical use of the technologies. The tracks are:

     Standards, Technologies, and Tutorials 
     Bioinformatics & Genomics 
     Defense 
     E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Government 
     Environment 
     Healthcare 
     Knowledge Management & Learning Technology 
     Statistics 
     Terminology and Ontologies 
     Transportation, Aviation, and Aerospace. 

The tracks will gather standards developers, software developers, and practitioners in these fields to demonstrate accomplishments and to discuss experiences.

The level of the presentations will vary from a high-level descriptions to technical-level specifics. Presentations and discussions will cover tutorials, implementation plans & experiences, and software capabilities.

The Open Forum Organizing Committee members:

The Open Forum is being organized by leaders from standards bodies, government, private enterprise, and academe. See the Call for Participation menu item on the left for a complete list.

The Open Forum is Sponsored by the:

        - Environmental Council of the States
        - Federal CIO Council's XML Working Group
        - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
        - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
        - US Environmental Protection Agency
        - International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1) Subcommittee 32 - Data Management and Interchange (SC32) Working Group 2 - Metadata (WG2)


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