[sc34wg3] Open Forum on Metadata Registries 2004--Call for Participation

[Mary Nishikawa]

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From: Bargmeyer [mailto:bebargmeyer@lbl.gov]
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Subject: Open Forum on Metadata Registries 2004--Call for Participation

Organizing Committee members the 2003 Open Forum on Metadata Registries,

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You are invited to participate in the International Open Forum on Metadata 
Registries, this year titled: The Open Forum for eBusiness and Metadata 
Technology Standardization, to be held May 17-10, 2004 in Xian, China.

This is the seventh in a series of international conferences about topics 
related to metadata registries. (Last year the Open Forum was held in Santa 
Fe, New Mexico, USA.) Participants will explore the capabilities, uses, 
content, development, and operation of registries and related technologies. 
Emphasis is on the management of metadata for eBusiness and eGovernment.

This Open Forum will concentrate on the following technologies:
ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registries
Model Driven Architecture
ebXML
MetaModel Facilities
Case studies
Terminology/Ontology/Concept Structures



These technologies help enterprise managers to manage their data, 
information systems and information services. The conference will gather 
standards developers, software developers, and practitioners in these 
fields to demonstrate accomplishments and to discuss current and future 
efforts.

An initial web site is available at www.metadata-standards.org/OpenForum2004

An official web site will be opened soon by the host in China.

The Open Forum is being organized by leaders from standards bodies, 
government, private enterprise, and academe. See the Call for Participation 
menu item on the web site for a complete list.

The host for the meetings is the China National Institute of Standardization

The sponsors are:

ebXML Asia

and the

International Organization for Standardization / International 
Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC)
          Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC 1)
          Subcommittee 32 - Data Management and Interchange (SC32)
          Working Group 2 - Metadata (WG2)

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