SECOND IEEE METADATA CONFERENCE September 16-17, 1997 NOAA Auditorium, NOAA Complex Silver Spring Metro Center 1301 East-West Highway Silver Spring, Maryland Final Program for Metadata '97 SECOND IEEE METADATA CONFERENCE Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Mass Storage Systems and Technology Technical Committee, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Hughes Information Technology Systems, and National Imagery and Mapping Agency. In cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Digital Libraries Task Force. The objectives of this conference are to (1) provide a forum to address metadata issues faced by the various communities including mass storage, data management, image and multimedia processing, and distributed computing, as well as managers of networked heterogeneous information servers, (2) bring the different communities together for technical interchange of ideas on common technologies and standards related to metadata; (3) hear the various perspectives from the users as well as from the producers of metadata; and (4) facilitate the development and usage of metadata. We invite participants from academia, government, and industry to share ideas and experiences. The technical program for the conference consists of papers, poster presentations and panels addressing (among others) the following topics: Metadata for: - Management & modeling - Semantic representation of the WWW - Mass storage and warehousing Metadata mining & extraction Metadata catalogs Systems for managing metadata Application-specific metadata Digital library metadata issues Standards Working systems The technical program and registration information can be found at: http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/md97.html ------------------------- Tuesday 16 September 1997 ------------------------- 7:30 am - 7:30 pm Registration 8:30 am - 9:45 am Plenary session: 8:30 am - 8:40 am Welcome Bob Coyne, IBM METADATA 97 Conference Chair 8:40 am - 9:00 am Opening Remarks Greg Withee, Deputy Assistant Administrator of NOAA's Satellite and Information Service 9:00 am - 9:45 am Keynote Address "An Architecture for Metadata: The Dublin Core, and why you don't have to like it" Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. 9:45 am - 10:00 am Break 10:00 am - 11:15 am Paper Session - I: Catalogs & Interoperability Chair: Barbara Bicking, Environmental Systems Research Institute New Approaches to Cataloguing, Querying and Browsing Geospatial Metadata L. Shklar, Pencom Systems, Inc. C. Behrens, C. Basu, K. Wittenburg, E. Sigman, Bellcore Interoperability Issues of the European Catalogue of Data Sources (CDS) R. Kramer, R. Nikolai, C. Rolker, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) S. Bjarnason, European Environment Agency S. Jensen, Niedersaechsisches Umweltministerium Metadata to Support Information Based Computing Environments C. Baru, R. Frost, R. Marciano, R. Moore, A. Rajasekar, M. Wan, San Diego Supercomputer Center 11:15 am - 11:30 am Joint Workshop on Metadata Registries Update 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm - end Poster & Demo booths open 1:00 pm - 3:05 pm Paper Session - II: Implemented Models & Systems Chair: Dave Johnson, EarthWare Systems (Australia) Pty. Ltd. Research Metadata in Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) J. Porter, University of Virginia D. Henshaw, USDA Forest Service S. Stafford, Oregon State University NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System Implementation of Extra- and Inter- File Metadata: Application to Data Services L. Klein, J. Gales, S.J. Khalsa, D. Wynne, Applied Research Corp. D. Ilg, Hughes STX Corp B. Fortner, Fortner Research LLC Multimedia Metadata - our 70 year experience C. Wilkie, A. Lee, British Broadcasting Corporation Building A Statistical Metadata Repository D. Gillman, M. Appel, S. Highsmith, Bureau of the Census Institutions, Languages, Content Standards, Record Syntaxes, and Protocols: Fitting It All Together R. Bourdeau, C. Burley, K. Sullivan, G. Roseberry, Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network 3:05 pm - 3:20 pm Break 3:20 pm - 4:35 pm Paper Session - III: Modeling Techniques Chair: Matt Morgenstern, Xerox Distributed Active Relationships in the Warwick Framework C. Lagoze, Cornell University R. Daniel Jr., Los Alamos National Laboratory Meta-Information Models for Georeferenced Digital Library Collections K. Beard, Universiy of Maine T. Smith, L. Hill, University of California Santa Barbara Meta-Modeling for Hypermedia Design P. Frohlich, N. Henze, W. Nejdl, University of Hannover 4:35 pm - 4:50 pm Break 4:50 pm - 5:40 pm Panel: Metadata or Malfeasance: AIIM to Meet the Critical Factors for Success. Chair: Owen Ambur, US Fish & Wildlife Service Panelists: T. Dale, CADscan, Inc. D. Entner, Eastman Software B. Kobler, National Aeronautics and Space Administration F. Podio, National Institute of Standards and Technology D. Schneider, Department of Justice 5:40 pm - 8:00 pm Reception and Poster Presentations Chairs: Gerry Barton, Dian Gaffen National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Development of a 3-Tier Metadata Documentation Scheme: Examining Level I as an Internet Access Metadata Input and Search Tool K. Kuhlman, A. Soffer, University of Maryland Baltimore County Advantages of a Compact Semantic Meta Model J. ter Bekke, Delft University of Technology A Query And Analysis Tool For Use With Metadata M. Tindall, M. Haines, University Of Wyoming A Taxonomy for Retrieval of Standards Information on the World Wide Web J. Newton, E. Fong, T. Rhodes, National Institute of Standards and Technology The MetaStar Suite of Metadata Tools M. St. Pierre, J. Restivo, Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. HDF Configuration Records -- A Metadata Description Language for HDF A. Cheng, M. Folk, W. Whitehouse, National Center for Supercomputing Applications P. Harten, Scalable Software, Inc. Status of the Revision of the FGDC's Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata D. Nebert, Federal Geographic Data Committee Clearinghouse AIIM: Document and Mass Storage Metadata O. Ambur, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service T. Dale, CADscan, Inc. D. Entner, Eastman Software B. Kobler, National Aeronautics and Space Administration D. Schneider, Department of Justice F. Podio, National Institute of Standards and Technology Mining Data for Hotline Support to Field Users V. Mansur, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Metadata-Enhanced Electronic Records M. Giguere, City of Philadelphia U.S. Geological Survey Metadata Management, Integration, and Visualization J. Faundeen, K. Zanter, Hughes STX Automated Association of Data Source Information With Derived Objects B. Ramsay, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Spatial Metadata in Australia - a learning experience P. Shelley, P. Golding, National Resource Information Centre D. Johnson, EarthWare Systems (Australia) Pty Ltd M. Taylor, Western Australian Land Information System --------------------------- Wednesday 17 September 1997 --------------------------- 7:30 am - 12:00 pm Registration 8:30 am - 2:00 pm Poster session continues 8:30 am - 9:45 am Plenary session: 8:30 am - 9:45 am Keynote Address: "The Microsoft Repository" Philip A. Bernstein, Repository Architect, Microsoft Corporation 9:45 am - 10:00 am Break 10:00 am - 12:05 pm Paper Session - IV: Data Warehousing & Integration Chair: Len Seligman, The MITRE Corporation Toward Unified Metadata for the Department of Defense A. Rosenthal, E. Sciore, S. Renner, The MITRE Corporation A Metadata Based Approach to Improving Query Responsiveness L. Liu, University of Alberta C. Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute Metadata for Heterogeneous Databases M. Morgenstern, Xerox Corporation Organizing Metadata Using Datalog Rules S. Mazumdar, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Models for Metadata or Metamodels for Data? B. Kerherve, Universite du Quebec at Montreal O. Gerbe, Universite de Montreal 12:05 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Paper Session - V: New Metadata & Novel Approaches Chair: Nabil Adams, Rutgers Metadata for Distributed Visual Database Access W. Chang, A. Zhang, State University of New York Blackbox Approach to Image Feature Manipulation used by Visual Information Retrieval (VIR) Engines K. Shah, A. Sheth, S. Mudumbai, University of Georgia Handling Constantly Changing Metadata A. Gal, University of Toronto 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Break 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Paper Session - VI: Quality & Limitations Chair: Kshitij Shah, University of Georgia The Role of Content Analysis in Evaluating Metadata for the U.S. Government Information Locator Service (GILS) W. Moen, University of North Texas Extensible Metadata at Work: A Common Interchange Format for Governmental Units P. Daisey, Jr., Bureau of the Census Metadata: Quality vs. Quantity M. Drewry, H. Conover, S. McCoy, S. Graves, University of Alabama in Huntsville 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Break 4:30 pm - 5:20 pm Panel: GILS and FGDC -- Dual or Dueling Standards for Content and Retrieval?" Chair: Steve Hufford, US Environmental Protection Agency Panelists: P. Coombs, Washington State Library K. Kuhlman, University of Maryland Baltimore County R. Pearsall, US Geological Survey J. Restivo, Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. 5:20 pm - 5:30 pm Closing Remarks ------------------- ON-LINE INFORMATION ------------------- www: http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/md97.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- METADATA '97 REGISTRATION FORM The Second IEEE Metadata Conference September 16-17, 1997 NOAA Auditorium, NOAA Complex Silver Spring Metro Center 1301 East-West Highway Silver Spring, Maryland For information about on-line registration via credit card, please visit: http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/md97.html For registration by mail, return this registration form to: Metadata'97 Registration IEEE Computer Society 1730 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. 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