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"Recent Developments in Standards for Electronic Publishing" Conference

21 - 22 January 1999
Paris, France

Organised by the GISEDI and IESERV2 projects

Aims of the meeting

Standards play a critical role in the emerging electronic publishing market. Many EU funded projects and industry groups have been actively developing and promoting standards. The workshop aims to provide a forum for presentations of the key issues covering in particular Metadata for Context, Content, and Commerce. This event will assist developers of electronic publishing products and services to address specific business objectives related to standards.

Day one provides presentations on context and content issues with case studies and discussions of language and discovery issues. The focus of the conference on day two is on standards related to commerce and covers aspects of ownership and transactions. The day also includes a presentation by the European Commission of developments in the workplan for the 5th Framework Programme and the focus of forthcoming Calls for proposals.

AGENDA

21 January 1999

09.30 - 10.30	Registration & Coffee
10:30 - 11:00	*Introduction & welcome*	Roberto Minio, PIRA International, Chairman
	Welcome addresses	Bernard Smith, European Commission Pierre Georget, Chair of EDIFRANCE
11:00 - 12:30	Metadata - languages and the problems
	Online mediation of European research results - the vision and the reality	Bill Whyte, University of Leeds (ADVISER II project)
	XML for information exchange	Peter Kibby, TFPL
12:30 - 14.00	Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30	Metadata for discovery
	Semantic annotation of documents for intelligent and knowledge-based retrieval	Gian Piero Zarri, CAMS CONCERTO / ESPRIT project)
	CEN ISSS - multimedia metadata information (1)	Speaker to be confirmed AFNOR
	CEN ISSS - multimedia metadata information (2)	Speaker to be confirmed AFNOR
	Metadata for knowledge-based publishing	Lothar Rostek, GMD
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee
16:00 -17.30	Geo info. metadata - state of the art and strategies in progress
	Core metadata sets for geographic information	Claude LUZET, MEGRIN
	Needs of metadata in a GI brokerage service	Joaquin Fernandez Gonzalez, INDRA (GISEDI project)

22 January 1999

09:15 - 10:45	Metadata for ownership
	Basic Semantic Register - tools for federation	Alain Chapdaniel, EDIFRANCE
	Rights metadata, recent developments on models and standards	Godfrey Rust, Data Definitions, (INDECS project)
	XML as a resource description language, software engineering tool and interchange format	Pasqualino Assini, UK Data Archive, Univ. of Essex, (NESSTAR project)
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30	Metadata for transactions 1
	The European accountancy profession experiment the NGCSF nomenclature in the TELER project	Robert Lemense, Edificas, (TELER project)
	NGCSF - nomenclature suited to classification of financial, accounting and social data	Stephane Gasch, Edificas (TELER project)
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Metadata for transactions 2
	XML for interface specification in supply chain applications	Francis Cave, Pira / IPAPI
	EDI and XML - recent developments in standards for electronic publishing	Philippe Vijghen, ACSE
15:00 - 15:15	Coffee
15:15 - 16:15	5th Framework Programme
	Developments in the 5FP workplan	Bernard Smith, European Commission
16:15 - 16:30	*Questions and closing remarks*
16:30	Close of conference

VENUE

AFNOR Building
Salle des Nations 33,
place des Corolles
Paris
La Défense 2
France

REGISTRATION

To register your interest in attending please copy and complete the following registration form and submit it by email to the organisers at: IESERV@mva.co.uk

Registration form
Information Engineering
"Recent developments in standards for electronic publishing"
21-22 January 1999

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