10th Annual Open Forum for Metadata Registries
Participants will hear a mix of plenaries, case studies, implementation experiences, practical applications, research projects, and advanced development activities. The main theme of the meeting is the value added by using several standards together in applications. Too often, people become adherents to a standard, and start to believe it can solve all the world's problems. The purpose of the conference is to show that the opposite is true. Using standards for the purpose for which they were designed and using multiple ones in appropriate ways is a more effective approach.
The following standards will be discussed:
- Data Semantics: ISO/IEC 11179 (Metadata Registries)
- Terminology: ISO 704 (Principles of Terminology)
- ISO 1087-1 (Vocabulary for terminology work)
- ISO/TC 37/SC 4 (Language Resources Management)
- Interoperability: ISO/IEC 19763 (Framework for Metamodel Interoperability)
- ISO/IEC 20944 (Interoperability and bindings)
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 OASIS.
Who Should Attend
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.
