Dates: September 20 & 21, 2001
Location: National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland
Theme: Metatopia - The Best Data For All Possible Worlds
Metatopia is the ideal world where all data are well managed. Standards are the foundation stones of Metatopia, a place where data managers store their metadata treasures in distributed registries for all to use. Strong data structures of reusable materials are constructed, efficiently built using shared expertise and information. Metatopia is impervious to woodpeckers, for the materials are as strong as the design is elegant. Roadmaps are freely available, making navigation through the environment easy. The inhabitants have the advantage of using the latest data management tools. The quality of life in Metatopia is high! Come join us!
You are invited to participate by attending the conference or by contributing a presentation. The symposium will bring together persons implementing, intending to implement, or otherwise interested in Metadata Registries to:
- Provide a forum for information exchange,
- Encourage collaboration in the development and exchange of metadata content between registries,
- Encourage standards development and other activities extending the state-of the art of this technology.
Tracks: We anticipate topics that will fit into one or more of these tracks:
- Metatopia Foundations: tutorials in metadata standards
- On the Road to Metatopia: implementations of metadata registry standards
- Metatopia Issues: extensions to standards, terminology, classification, XML,...
- Living in Metatopia: benefits of data management (e.g., data quality, data exchange/sharing, data reuse, cost savings, risk management, ...)
- Beyond Metatopia: release 2.0 - bold ideas for the future.
Topics: Some suggested topics covered by this conference include:
- Metadata and related standards - covering fundamental notions of data elements, metadata framework, models of metadata attributes, naming and identification issues, classification schemes, value domains, and data administration
- Implementations - sharing experiences with your operational or planned registries
- Interoperability - exchanging metadata between registries and clients
- Terminology - managing thousands of concepts and linguistic expressions denoting semantic content
- Semantic structures - organizing the concepts/terms into structured sets that can be deployed in software.
- Context - accommodating the diversity of languages, naming schemes, and discipline specific terminology
- Object data - extending metadata registries to better handle object data, such as the active attributes (behaviors, methods)
- Object technologies - integrating metadata registries into CORBA, COM/DCOM, SOAP, ...
- IT enabled data standards - improving the design of data and enabling data standards from international, national, government and private sources
- Assemble-to-order data specifications - assembling the components in metadata registries into a variety of products: database designs, reports, EDI transactions sets, regulations, legislation, ...
- Interchange - facilitating all types of electronic data communication including EDI, web enabled forms, HTML/XML documents, ...
- XML - relating XML standards and Metadata standards
- Intelligent information integration - combining data from different sources
- Understanding - helping to make specialized knowledge available to others
- Discovery - helping humans and software to find the data they need
- Access - querying data in databases and non-standard repositories
- Complex data - supporting derived, aggregate and structured data
Submit your proposal (deadline April 30, 2001)
Questions:
- check www.dama-ncr.org for updates
- email to metatopia2001@dama-ncr.org
- call Dr. Jerry Rosenbaum at (410) 764-1843