[Dspace-general] Fwd: Open Forum for Metadata Registries 2007 - Call for Participants

[Mark Diggory]

For anyone interested

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> From: "Gillman, Daniel - BLS" <Gillman.Daniel at bls.gov>
> Date: February 15, 2007 4:06:17 PM EST
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> Subject: Open Forum for Metadata Registries 2007 - Call for  
> Participants
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> Dear IASSIST'ers,
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> Attached below is the call for participation for a metadata conference
> in New York this summer.  I hope to see you there.
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> Regards,
> Dan
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> Dan Gillman
> OFMR 2007 Conference Chair
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> Bureau of Labor Statistics
> Office of Survey Methods Research
> 2 Massachusetts Ave, NE
> Washington, DC 20212 USA
> Tel     +1.202.691.7523
> FAX    +1.202.691.7426
> Email  Gillman_D at BLS.Gov
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> This announcement is being distributed to numerous lists. Apologies  
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> duplication. Please feel free to distribute this to others who  
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> interested.
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> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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> INTEGRATING STANDARDS IN PRACTICE:=20
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> 10th Open Forum on Metadata Registries
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> New York City, NY  USA
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> 9 - 11 July 2007
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> This Open Forum is the tenth annual forum in a series of international
> conferences about topics related to metadata, registries,
> interoperability, and semantics. It will focus on a series of core
> standards as well as on the selection, integration and use of multiple
> standards in actual systems.  The central goal of the Open Forum is to
> share and advance knowledge and experience about standards, the
> technologies that build upon them, and implementation experiences. =20
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> The following standards will be discussed:
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> Data Semantics:       ISO/IEC 11179 (Metadata Registries)
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> Terminology:             ISO 704 (Principles of Terminology)
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>                                      ISO 1087-1 (Vocabulary for
> terminology work)
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>                                      ISO/TC 37/SC 4 (Language  
> Resources
> Management)
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> Interoperability:         ISO/IEC 19763 (Framework for Metamodel
> Interoperability)
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>                                      ISO/IEC 20944  
> (Interoperability and
> bindings)
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> We will also discuss other standards from ISO such as Data Categories
> (12620), Geographic Metadata (19115), and Topic Maps (13250), and
> standards from other standards development organizations such as RDF,
> OWL, and SKOS from W3C; CWM, SBVR, and ODM from OMG; and ebXML from
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> Who Should Attend
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> The conference will gather together standards developers, software
> developers, academics, and practitioners from the public and private
> sectors to demonstrate accomplishments and to discuss current and  
> future
> efforts.  Attendees will have interests in metadata management and the
> use of international standards relating to data and terminology, with
> some having specialties in areas such as data search/retrieval, web
> search, and corporate data management.
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> Conference Web Site
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> Information about the Open Forum, directions, information about the
> venue, and the program will be available on the conference web site:
> http://metadataopenforum.org <http://metadataopenforum.org/> .
> Registration will be opening soon, so please consult the web site
> periodically for registration options and pricing.
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> Contact
> Conference Chair:
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> Daniel Gillman Gillman.Daniel at bls.gov  
> <mailto:Gillman.Daniel at bls.gov>=20
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> Bureau of Labor Statistics
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> +1-202-691-7523=20
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Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology