Ontologies - Tools - Web Services. Alone, each is powerful. Combine them into a system, and you have the beginnings of a Semantic Framework. MMI, in collaboration with our partners, has developed a Semantic Framework which can leverage these tools into a user-friendly system for data providers and users.  The Semantic Interoperability workshop is your opportunity to learn from our experience! 

The Marine Metadata Interoperability project, the QARTOD-to-OGC project, and the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System are excited to announce that registration is now open for the Ocean Observing Systems Semantic Interoperability workshop, to be held November 17-20, 2008 in Boulder, CO!

The workshop registrations at RegOnline have been opened for the 2008 Ocean Observing Systems Semantic Interoperability! workshop.

All interested attendees may register at the workshop's RegOnline site. 

Registration will be limited to 60 people. 

Stephanie has put together a draft of the Participants Lists for the 2 meetings in August. I've updated it using material from Janet Fredericks' spreadsheet.

This page should be religiously updated as new information is received.

We have set a date and place for the MMI planning meeting: August 25, 2008, in Huntsville, Alabama. This immediate precedes, and leads into, the MMI Interoperability Planning meeting later that week.

Contact John Graybeal if you wish to go, and have not otherwise received information.

An overview for the semantic interoperability series has been written up at http://marinemetadata.org/workshops/oosinterop2008 (I consider this the 'front page for the workshop series'), and the agenda for the first meeting has been aliased to http://marinemetadata.org/workshops/agenda2008interopp.
A certain amount of superficial mods were made to the two meeting announcements (http://marinemetadata.org/events/oosip and http://marinemetadata.org/events/oossi) to try to align them with the vision in the front page for the workshop.