Agenda as of January 19, 2003

DAY 4 -- Thursday, January 23, 2003

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Defense Track

10:30 - Noon

10:30 - 10:40 AM, Welcome to Track
Jim Pipher
Department of Defense,
Defense Information Systems Agency
NCES Data Engineering

10:40 - Noon, Market-Driven & Metadata Registries
Diann McCoy
Department of Defense,
Defense Information Systems Agency
Principal Director for Application Engineering

This strategy represents a major shift in approach to metadata management. It focuses on visibility to existing data resources (bottom-up) versus normative (top-down) development.

Noon - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 PM

DOD XML Registry
Glenda Hayes
MITRE
W900 - Information Systems & Tech

The technical and programmatic Infrastructure that DoD, based on the Market-driven Data Strategy, is using to manage XML resources.

3:30 - 4:00 PM

Break

4:00- 5:30 PM

Data Element Registries and DOD Communities of Interest
Jacqueline Knudson
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Defense
C4ISR Engineer

Jay Scarano
MITRE
MITRE D500 - Information Technologies

Mark Kelly
Department of Defense
Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group

The speakers will describe the application of metadata registries within defense communities that require the exchange of information. They will focus on the contribution of metadata registration to facilitate the coordination of these exchanges.

DAY 5 - Friday, January 25, 2003

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Defense Track

8:30 - 10:00 AM

Information Discovery and Access
Rob Walker
Department of Defense
DISA Technical Manager, Center for Net-Centric Services

Chuck Heazel
Open GIS Consortium

This presentation describes strategies to use metadata to effect smart search (or precision browsing), information fusion, mediation, and brokering

10:00 - 10:30

Break

10:30 - Noon

Panel Discussion: Federating Registries
Stan Davis
Titan Corporation

Glenda Hayes
MITRE
W900 - Information Systems & Tech

Jim Pipher
Department of Defense,
Defense Information Systems Agency
NCES Data Engineering

Mark Kelly
Department of Defense
Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group

 Jacqueline Knudson
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Defense
C4ISR Engineer

This addresses challenges (technologies, techniques, policy) for cooperation among metadata resources

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