3rd Schemas Workshop (Managing schemas in a mulitlingual Semantic Web) MTA SZTAKI, Majus 10-11, Budapest

[Kovacs Laszlo]

Kedves Kollega,

Az Europai Kozosseg Schemas nemzetkozi projektje szervezeseben a harmadik
Schemas Workshopra hivom fel szives figyelmet. A workshop a metaadat-tervezok
es implementorok legnagyobb europai foruma. Az idei workshopot az MTA SZTAKI
szervezi Kende utcai alagsori nagytanacs termeben (2001, majus 10-11-en). A
magyar es altalaban kelet-europai resztvevok szamanak novelese erdekeben
kerem, hogy a mellekelt felhivast juttassa el metaadat temakkal foglalkozo es
erdeklodo kollegainak is.

Koszonettel:
-- Kovacs Laszlo


Managing schemas in a mulitlingual Semantic Web

A two-day workshop, 10-11th May 2001, Budapest, Hungary

The SCHEMAS Project is an accompanying measure under the European Commission's
IST programme. Our aim is to support metadata schema implementers and
designers by making available information about the proper use of new and
emerging metadata standards and by providing guidance on adapting multiple
standards for local use in customised schemas. For further information, see
the SCHEMAS Web site (http://www.schemas-forum.org/).

One of the major goals of the SCHEMAS Project is to promote harmonisation and
coordination among designers and implementers of services and projects. To
this end SCHEMAS is encouraging projects to publish their metadata
vocabularies through a SCHEMAS Forum Registry which will be presented at the
workshop.

Publication of standards-conformant metadata in an open and distributed Web
environment is a key aspect of the Semantic Web. As of 2001, it seems likely
that the infrastructure of the Semantic Web will build on the enabling
technologies Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Resource Description
Framework (RDF).

This, the third SCHEMAS workshop, aims to examine how projects can publish and
manage their vocabularies using RDF schemas in a form that is readily
harvestible and searchable. Participants will gain an understanding of how to
go about creating and publishing application profiles for their own projects,
as well as how these may be publicised and shared through the SCHEMAS Forum
Registry.

The Web, by its very nature, is an international arena, requiring a
publication environment that supports multiple languages. The workshop will
therefore also explore issues relating to the internationalisation of schemas.

The SCHEMAS project provides a forum for those working in the area of metadata
schemas and the workshop will draw upon the experiences of experts working in
various domains. Ample opportunity will be provided for the exchange of ideas
and discussion of issues through breakout sessions.

We encourage participation from implementers who are using metadata in varying
domains such as digital preservation, rights management, e-commerce,
collection description. Participants should be familiar with the concept of
metadata and have an interest in the technologies related to management and
use of metadata.

In addition to the particular issues covered by the workshop, this is an
opportunity for metadata schema developers from a wide range of domains to
meet and discuss common problems and interoperable solutions.

The workshop will be held at the Kende and La'gyma'nyosi buildings of the
Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (www.sztaki.hu) in Budapest, Hungary. Please use the form below to
register your interest in participating in the workshop.

Please note, places are limited, and we would like to involve participants
from a range of countries and sectors. Please do not make travel arrangements
before you have received confirmation of your booking

BOOKING DEADLINE: Thursday 26th April, 2001

If you would like to be informed of future events please register on the
schemas-forum mailing list: schemas-forum
(http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/schemas-forum/join.html)


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Laszlo KOVACS                   Head of Department of Distributed Systems
Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Address:   MTA SZTAKI, DSD H-1111 Budapest XI. Lagymanyosi u. 11. HUNGARY
Phone:     +36 (1) 209-5286
Fax:       +36 (1) 209-5288
E-mail:    laszlo.kovacs at sztaki.hu
URL:       http://www.sztaki.hu/sztaki/aszi/dsd/kovacs.html
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