SUO: Open Forum 2003 Conference Announcement
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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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