CFP Metadata 97

[djohnson@w3c2.com.au (Dave Johnson)]

OZMETA People - here is the Call for Papers for the second IEEE Metadata
Conference - please forgive me if you have already seen this - Dave Johnson

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Second IEEE Metadata Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

* Location: NOAA Auditorium, Silver Spring, Maryland
* Dates: 16 - 17 September 1997
* For more information: http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/md97.html

Sponsored by:

IEEE Mass Storage Systems and Technology Technical Committee
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Hughes Information Technology Systems
IEEE Digital Libraries Task Force

The IEEE Metadata Conference goal is to encourage discussion of metadata
issues. Metadata is loosely defined as "data about data", or "additional
information that is necessary for data to be useful". Papers that
contribute to practical understanding are strongly encouraged. Survey
papers, short tutorial papers, and product or project experiences are
welcome. Previously published papers will not be considered. Panel
proposals should describe the topic, intended audience, and list the likely
participants. Panels should discuss topics that can involve the audience
rather than being mini-paper sessions. Proposals for poster displays and/or
demonstrations should focus on presenting novel and interesting technical
aspects of metadata research or development. Soon-to-be products that
emphasize substantial technical support for metadata are also welcome.

We are soliciting abstracts of 500 to 1000 words for potential papers and
panel proposals, along with abstracts of poster and/or demo presentations
of up to 500 words of text.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Metadata Management:
        o modeling and representation of metadata, including
                + impact of modeling choices (oo, relational, ..) on
extensibility of metadata
                + impact of metadata on storage, retrievability and use of data
                + metadata for logical/semantic representation of the WWW
        o metadata mining/extraction
        o metadata for mass storage and warehousing
        o integrating multi-level metadata
        o metadata repository architecture
        o systems for managing metadata
                + recording/providing/accessing/utilizing
                + WWW-based metadata management
* Application-specific issues of metadata:
        o earth sciences (weather/climate, ecosystems)
        o resource management (mining, agriculture)
        o other data-intensive application areas (census, film/video
archives, etc.)
* Emerging applications in Global Information Infrastructure, including
        o Digital library metadata issues:
                + search through multimedia documents
                + metadata for multimedia and heterogeneous digital data
                + metadata for mass storage
        o metadata for managing WWW-based information resources
        o information/electronic commerce
* Standards:
        o government "documents" (email, voicemail, ..),
        o tape format and file metadata,
        o self-describing data formats (such as netcdf)
        o survey of existing standards
        o bridging multiple overlapping metadata 'standards'
        o standards for information interchange and stewardship
* Working Systems demonstrating any aspects related to metadata

Please file your submissions electronically at
http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/md97.html.

For further information on submission, please contact:

Margie Templeton
margie@dii.com

For further information on the conference, please contact:

Ron Musick
rmusick@llnl.gov
Phone: 510-424-5015
Fax: 510-423-2993

or

Chris Miller
miller@esdim.noaa.gov
Phone:301-713-1264
Fax: 301-713-1249

Important Dates

* Deadline for paper abstract, poster-demo abstract, panel proposal
submission: March 15, 1997
* Acceptance/rejection notification: April 20, 1997
* Full hard copies of the papers (8-10 pages suggested) due: July 20, 1997
* Final cooperative review for full papers ends 8/15

Proceedings will be published electronically, as were last year's (see
Metadata-96). There will be low cost hardcopy proceedings available for
conference participants.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Robert Coyne    IBM, USA        - Chair
Joy Colucci     Hughes Information Technology Sys, USA  - Vice Chair
Merritt Jones MITRE, USA
Ben Kobler      NASA, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nabil Adams     Rutgers, USA
Al Aho  Columbia U., USA
Owen Ambur      Fish & Wildlife, USA
Gerald Barton   NOAA, USA
Barbara Bicking Environmental Sys. Research Institute, USA
Dian Gaffen     NOAA, USA
Sara Graves     U. of Alabama, Huntsville, USA
Dave Johnson    EarthWare Systems, Australia            djohnson@w3c2.com.au
Chris Miller    NOAA, USA       - Vice Chair
Matt Morgenstern Xerox, USA
Ron Musick      Lawrence Livermore National Labs, USA - Chair
Amit Sheth      U. of Georgia, USA
Jamie Shiers    CERN, Switzerland
Terry Smith     UCSB, USA
Margie Templeton Data Integration Inc., USA Volker Vent-Schmidt Deutscher
Wetterdienst, Germany Mark Whiting    Pacific Northwest Lab, USA
Matthias Zingler European Space Agency, Italy