Sharing schemas: progress and future plans

A one-day workshop, 30th November 2001, The Hague, The Netherlands

Purpose:

The SCHEMAS project is hosting a workshop to review means by which projects can share information about metadata in use, and to consider ways in which collaboration can be made more effective.

Participants will be updated on recent developments regarding use of metadata schemas and application profiles. The role of registries in providing access to information about schemas will be reviewed, and the SCHEMAS registry will be demonstrated. A forum will be provided for discussion of future requirements. This will also be an opportunity to hear from a panel of experts about metadata related activity in their domains and developments in metadata standards.

This workshop will take place in the context of increasing interest in the infrastructure needed for the semantic web. The semantic coherence of metadata is a key issue in relation to development of the semantic web. Understanding metadata schemas in a distributed environment depends not just on sharing vocabularies, but on sharing grammars, or data models. The metadata schemas native to the tremendous diversity of services on the Web are based on local data models that often do not readily make sense in collaborative environments. The SCHEMAS Project has investigated using RDF, the Resource Description Framework, for expressing the "profiles" of local metadata models in terms that are mergible across applications. The construction of environments for discovering metadata semantics in use ("registries"), and the standardisation of such models, or lack thereof, will determine the semantic coherence and usefulness of metadata on the Web over the longer term.

Target audience

There is a common interest across sectors in learning about recent developments which enable sharing of metadata schemas, and in contributing to future plans.

This workshop is intended for those involved in building web based systems whether as metadata creators, system implementers, software developers within the educational, cultural heritage, government and industrial sectors.

The workshop will be held at Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library), The Hague, The Netherlands.

Programme Bookings Accommodation Directions

Any questions about this event should be sent to events@ukoln.ac.uk

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