Welcome to the Web site for the Open Forum 2003 on Metadata Registries.
You are invited to participate. The Open Forum will be held
This is the sixth in a series of international conferences. 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
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Tutorials will be given on these technologies and on the relevant standards. A theme will be cooperation and interoperation of these technologies.
These technologies help enterprise managers in managing their data, reports, data integrity, data reliability, and data collections, while opening new capabilities for web services. The practical use of the technologies, metadata management techniques, data standards/harmonization, and concept/terminology structures will be described and demonstrated in application “tracks”. 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 hosts (providing funding) for the meetings are the
Paladin Integration
Engineering, Federal CIO
Council's XML Working Group, The Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, and the US
Environmental Protection Agency.
The Open Forum is Sponsored by the:
Environmental
Council of the States
Federal CIO Council's XML Working Group,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Object Management Group
Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
Paladin Integration Engineering
US Environmental Protection Agency,
and the
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)