Past Events

The symposium is aimed at promoting a fluid exchange between specialists of different disciplines and from both hemispheres, working on estuarine and coastal issues. It will provide a stimulating frame for comparing results, and for discussing the ongoing scientific and management challenges, highlighting similarities and differences between northern and southern coasts and estuaries.

Conference Themes

The International Conference sponsored by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) brings together representatives from science, technology, and library. This year's focus, "Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications," will explore the deployment of interoperable metadata technologies and best practices to informational networks in a variety of fields.

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Theme: Towards the European Digital Library

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ECDL2008 will provide an opportunity to present and discuss new research and development in areas supporting an ambition of the Ubiquitous Digital Library, a vision where information can be easily accessed in the user environment and where new objects can be produced by analyzing, processing and combining existing information.

Topics of contributions include:

This is the first meeting of a two-meeting series to advance ocean systems semantic interoperability. (You may also wish to visit Part 2 of the Workshop Series.) In this meeting, we will do the planning and introductions to set the stage for the second, much larger meeting.

Background

Currently, there are many vocabularies in use by different data systems in the IOOS community. This cacophony of vocabularies inhibits interoperability between data systems, as well as the ability of IOOS to operate as a whole, integrated system.

Conference theme: Our Changing World

GIS tools provide a mechanism to access, analyze and display distributed data sets. Much of the functionality built into GIS programs, like ESRI tools, are dependant on accurate and interoperable metadata. In the GIS world, geospatial metadata is particularly important.

To see more about accessing and using data sets using metadata, see the pre-conference workshops:

We are all lobbying for an operational and global spatial data infrastructure. The term “GeoWeb” refers to an immediate solution to redundant data, expensive data integration, and expensive or inefficient data distribution capabilities. More importantly, the “GeoWeb” unlocks a world of new technologies, markets and improved decision-making. This is a pivotal technological shift that will not only change the industry however the way we use geospatial information in our everyday lives.

Provenance (also referred to as
audit trail, lineage, and pedigree) captures information about the
steps used to generate a given data product. Such information provides
important documentation that is key to preserve data, to determine the
data's quality and authorship, to understand, reproduce, as well as
validate results.