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META-DATA '99
THIRD IEEE META-DATA CONFERENCE
APRIL 6-7, 1999
The technical program for the conference consists of papers, poster presentations and panels addressing (among others) the following topics:
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Tuesday 6 April 1999
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7:30 am - 7:30 pm Registration
8:30 am - 8:40 am Welcome
Bob Coyne, IBM
META-DATA 99 Conference Chair
8:40 am - 9:00 am Opening Remarks
Dr. Susan Zevin, NOAA
Deputy Assistant Administrator of
Environmental Information Services
9:00 am - 9:45 am Keynote Address
Semantic Interoperability and Information Brokering
in Global Information Systems
Amit Sheth, Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab,
Computer Sc., University of Georgia
9:45 am - 10:00 am Break
10:00 am - 11:40 am Paper Session - I: Catalogs & Interoperability
Chair: Sushma Singhal, Raytheon ITSS
Integrating Inventory-Level Meta-data into a Directory: An Implementation
for Data Collections
Ronald L. Vogel and Robert T. Northcutt
Raytheon Information Technology & Scientific Services (ITSS)
Generic Query Meta-data for Geospatial Digital Libraries
James Frew, Linda Hill, Greg Janee, Mary Larsgaard, Kevin Lovette,
Catherine Masi, Qi Zheng, University of California, Santa Barbara
CEOS Catalog Interoperability Protocol
George Percivall, NASA/Raytheon Systems Co.
Creating Meta-data for a Digital Library of the State of the Environment
Brand Niemann, U.S. EPA
11:40 am - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm - 8:00 pm Poster Session
1:00 pm - 3:05 pm Paper Session - II: Implemented Models & Systems
Chair: Anthony Elam, Rice University
The Isaac Network: LDAP and Distributed Meta-data for Resource Discovery
Susan Calcari, Michael Rozkowski, Christopher Lukas
Internet Scout Project, University of Wisconsin- Madison
The UDK Approach: the 4th Generation of an Environmental Data Catalogue
for Austrian and German Public Authorities
Walter Swoboda, Fred Kruse, Ralf Nikolai, Wassili Kazakos,
Detlev Nyhuis, Holger Rousselle
Ministry of Environment of Lower Saxony
Meta-data for the Unified Climate Access Network
Kevin Robbins, David Barthel, William Noon, Claudia Perot, Richard Reinhardt
Southern Regional Climate Center / Louisiana State University
Meta-data - The Key to Content Management Services
Katherine Curtis, Paul Foster and Fred Stentiford, BT Laboratories
Using a Meta-Model as the Basis for Enterprise-Wide Data Navigation
in a Scientific Environment
J. Draskic, J-M Le Goff, I. Willers, J-P Vialle, N. Baker, F. Estrella,
Z. Kovacs & R. McClatchey, UWE/CERN
3:05 pm - 3:20pm Break
3:20 pm - 4:35 pm Paper Session - III: Modeling Techniques
Chair: Matt Morgenstern, XEROX
An Approach for Meta-data Reconcilliation Among Models of Missile
Defense Domains
Terry Boschert, Robert Daniels, The Mitre Corporation
Bridging Geospatial Meta-data Standards towards Distributed Meta-data
Information Systems
Dirk Balfanz, Stefan Gvbel, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Data Models and Standards Requirements in the Department of Defense
Joint Technical Architecture
Ronald L. Fauquet, GDE Systems, Inc.
4:35 pm - 4:50 pm Break
4:50 pm - 5:40 pm Panel: Freedom's Just Another Word ... for Meta-data:
Knowledge Management and Discovery via DASL, Z39.50,
X.500, and the DMA
Chair: Owen Ambur, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Panelists: to be announced
5:40 pm - 8:00 pm Reception and Poster Presentations
Wednesday 7 April 1999
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7:30 am - 12:00 pm Registration
8:30 am - 2:00 pm Poster session continues
8:30 am - 9:25 am Keynote Address
Meta-data Jones and the Tower of Babel:
The Challenge of Large-Scale Semantic Heterogeneity
Stuart Madnick, John Norris Maguire Professor
of Information Technology & Leaders for
Manufacturing Professor of Management Science,
MIT Sloan School of Management
9:25 am - 12:10 pm Paper Session - IV: Data Warehousing & Integration
Chair: Len Seligman, The MITRE Corporation
Meta-data Use in the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) Model
Michael Nelson, Del Croom, Steve Robbins, NASA Langley Research Center
Meta-data for Multi-level Content-based Retrieval
Wendy Chang and Jia Wang Rochester Institute of Technology
Meta-data for Data Warehouses Using Extended Relational Models
O. Mangisengi, A M. Tjoa, R.R. Wagner, Technical University of Vienna
10:40 am - 10:55 am Break
Paper Session - IV (continued)
Meta-Data Components in Support of an Active Deductive Object-Oriented
Database System, T. Ben Abdellatif, H. W. R. Chan, S. W. Dietrich,
B. Siddabathuni, A. Sundermier, S. D. Urban
Arizona State University
The Effectiveness of Meta-data and other Content Descriptive Data
in Web Information Retrieval
M. Agosti, F. Crivellari, M. Melucci, Universita' di Padova
Building an Extensible Wrapper Repository: A Meta-data Approach
Ling Liu, Wei Han, Calton Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute
12:10 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:10 pm Paper Session - V: New Meta-data Approaches
Chair: Mark Whiting, Pacific Northwest Lab
Advanced Search Technologies for Unfamiliar Meta-data
Fredric Gey, Michael Buckland and Ray Larson
University of California, Berkeley
Indexing XML documents conceptually
Jacek R. Ambroziak, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
The Next Desktop Revolution: End-user Meta-data
Dr. Glenda Hayes and Dr. Robert M. Daniels, Jr., The MITRE Corporation
Constructing Multilevel Meta-data Networks
Shashi Phoha, Applied Research Lab at Penn State University
3:10 pm - 3:25 pm Break
3:25 pm - 4:15 pm Paper Session - VI: Quality & Limitations
Chair: Sushma Singhal, Raytheon ITSS
Querying Quality of Data Meta-data
George A. Mihaila and Louiqa Raschid, University of Toronto
E-mail Metadata In A Post-Armstrong World
Jason R. Baron, Department of Justoce
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Break
4:30 pm - 5:20 pm Panel: Collecting and Maintaining Meta-data for
Catalogue Systems
Chair: Ralf Kramer, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
Panelists: to be announced
5:20 pm - 5:30 pm Closing Remarks
POSTER TITLES
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A Review of EOSDIS QA Meta-data: Support for EOS Quality
Assessment (QA) and QA Meta-data Update Tools
Sushma Singhal (Raytheon ITSS) and Bob Lutz (Raytheon ITSS)
Meta-data and the Academic Library Community: An Update
Dr. Brad Eden, NHMCCD
MG-Tree: An Efficient Index for Fast Execution of Conjunctive Queries
Yuping Yang, Mukesh Singhal, CIS Department, The Ohio State University
Profiling the FGDC Geospatial Meta-data Content Standard to Link with the
Biological Sciences, Anne Frondorf (USGS, Reston, VA),
Matt Jones (NCEAS, Santa Barbara, CA), Maury Nyquist and
Susan Stitt (USGS, Denver, Co)
Interoperable Geospatial Objects
Jonathan Doughty, Steve Hirsch, Jim Nolan, Patrick Jones
The MITRE Corporation
CEN/ISSS Meta-data Framework Demonstration
Dr Stewart Granger, Vasari Enterprises
Meta-data Resolution for Document Retrieval
S. Coulondre, D. Genest and L. Spery, LIRMM
Meta-data and Biological Sequence Annotation
T. Libourel, I. Mougenot, J. Sallantin and L. Spery, LIRMM
Meta-data for a Content-based Search Prototype
Cris Koutsougeras, Bill P. Buckles, and Saud Amernd, Tulane University
GenThes: A General Thesaurus Browser for Web-based Catalogue Systems
Ralf Nikolai, Ralf Kramer, Marc Steinhaus, Bruno Felluga, Paolo Plini
Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
Meta Messages in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
C. Huemer & A M. Tjoa
Institute of Applied Computer Science, University of Vienna
Advancements in the Integrated Management of Site Meta-data for
Multi-agency Weather/Climate Data Networks, Anne Viront-Lazar
USDOC/NOAA/NESDIS/National Climatic Data Center
A Meta-Data Based Development Strategy for Evolutionary Information Systems,
Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, Asuman Sünbül
Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering, ISST, Berlin
Using XML-Structured Meta-data to Automate Quality Assurance Processing
for Ecological Data, Matthew B. Jones, Rudolf Nottrott, Mark Schildhauer
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
Validator - A Commercial Meta-data Standards Setting and Enforcement Tool
Richard J. Orli, Kismet Analytic Corp.
An Information System for Global Climatic Change Research
Using MARC/FGDC Meta-data Standards
(An Interinstitutional Project in Mexico)
Enedina Ortega, Jose Torres, Sergio Arregumn, Luis Ruiz-Suarez,
Ivan Delgado, Huberto Batiz, Alejandro Palacios, Salvador Montufar
ITESM CAMPUS MORELOS
Extending the Meta-data Capabilities of a Non-Extensible DBMS
J-C Pazzaglia, Mediatech S.R.L.
S.M. Embury, Cardiff University
NSBRI Data Archive: Promise and Challenges
Dr. Ross Reedstrom, Research Scientist
Rice University, Computer and Information Technology Institute
A Metadata Architecture for Representing Electronic Documents on the Web
Ana Maria de Carvalho Moura, Maria Luiza Machado Campos, Cassia Maria Barreto
Instituto Militar de Engenharia
LODGING
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Lodging information is available at the conference Web site.
MEALS
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Beverages and snacks will be offered during the morning and afternoon
breaks. During the conference, lunch is on your own. Tuesday night
there is a catered reception held together with the poster session.
VENUE
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This program is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests
for sign interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Keisha
Sanders at 301-713-0573 (voice or Relay) or 301-713-0982 (TDD only).
Detailed location and transportation information is at the conference Web site
REGISTRATION
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Early, on-line registration is strongly encouraged (deadline: March
16).
*** On-site registration can only be accomplished with a credit card. ***
ON-LINE INFORMATION
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www: http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/md99/md99.html
PROCEEDINGS
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Proceedings will be published electronically, as were the proceedings of the
Second IEEE Meta-Data Conference at
(http://computer.org/conferen/proceed/meta97/).
There will be low cost hardcopy proceedings available for conference
participants.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Robert Coyne IBM - Chair
Merritt Jones MITRE
Ben Kobler NASA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Nabil Adam Rutgers University/ NASA
Al Aho Columbia University
Owen Ambur Fish & Wildlife Service
Anne O'Donnell Ball NOAA
Gerald Barton NOAA
Barbara Bicking Environmental Sys. Research Institute
Terence Critchlow Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Sara Graves U. of Alabama, Huntsville
Dave Johnson Earthware Systems, Australia
Hermann Maurer Technical University Graz, Austria
Chris Miller NOAA - chair
Matt Morgenstern Xerox
Ron Musick Lawrence Livermore National Labs - vice chair
Doug Nebert United States Geological Survey
Len Seligman MITRE
Sushma Singhal Raytheon ITSS
Kshitij Shah SoftPlus
Terry Smith UCSB
Mark Whiting Pacific Northwest Lab
Matthias Zingler European Space Agency, Italy
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact:
Ron Musick Christopher Miller
Program Vice Chair Program Chair
Lawrence Livermore National Lab NOAA/Environmental Info. Services
P.O. Box 808, L-561 1315 East-West Highway, Room 15531
Livermore, CA 94551 Silver Spring, MD 20910
rmusick@llnl.gov miller@esdim.noaa.gov
Phone: 925-424-5015 Phone: 301-713-1264
Fax: 925-423-2993 Fax: 301-713-1249
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IEEE Meta-Data
6 - 7 April 1999
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