eScience Seminar 2009

MPG eScience Seminar 2009

Programm 2009

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Seminare 2007-2008

Metadaten Infrastrukturen
Harnack Haus Berlin, 14./15. Oktober 2008 Anreise/Directions

Inhaltliche Gestaltung:
Peter Wittenburg (MPI PL),
Traugott Koch (MPDL)

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
11:00 - 11:45	Introduction. All participants present themselves
11:45 - 13:00	MPI Presentations
	The CERA-2 meta database and needs for a common information model	Frank Toussaint (MPI Meteorology, Hamburg; World Data Center for Climate)
	Law-related MPIs: CMS project	Sylvia Kortüm (MPI for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich)
	Metadata in the case of an astronomical RoR [Registry of Registries]	Wolfgang Voges (MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching; MPDL)
	ISOCat. Component model	Peter Wittenburg, Daan Broeder (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30	Practical experiences from e-science applications and related metadata solutions	Brian Matthews (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30	Metadata standard and best practice developments: Dublin Core Abstract Model, SWAP, OAI-ORE, etc.	Pete Johnston (Eduserv Foundation, UK)
17:40 - 18:15	Metadata engineering methodology	Thomas Baker (DCMI)

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
09:00 - 10:30	Semantic interoperability of data values, use and matching of ontologies and unstructured vocabularies	Jacco van Ossenbruggen (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Breakout groups (w. Introduction to tasks and presentation of a MPG-wide metadata registry project). Topics: Enumeration of metadata-related problems; cooperation options, MPG-wide projects, potential support needed; necessity of common policies and standards
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch break
13:30 - 14:10	Reports from breakout groups
14:10 - 14:40	Developing an ontology for academic disciplines	Martin Stricker (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
14:40 - 15:10	Coffee break
15:10 - 15:45	Recent developments reg. web-enabled vocabularies. SKOS, tagging, microformats, etc.	Thomas Baker (DCMI)
15:45 - 16:00	Conclusion
All time-slots cover both the presentation and questions/discussion. Exact times may be adapted, the sequence of events will be kept, however.

Speakers

Four external speakers so far have accepted the invitation to present at and participate in our seminar:

1) Brian Matthews from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot UK. Brian has been involved in exploring and developing tools to support scientific infrastructure, including metadata for data management and digital libraries. He has been involved in a number of JISC and European projects such as the JISC Claddier projects. He works in Scientific and Technical Facilities Council e-Science Center, leading the Information Management Group.

Brian will be the main speaker on Metadata in e-Science applications, being in a position to know the leading e-Science projects in the UK and abroad and having detailed experience of several advanced project implementations in the UK and their metadata solutions. He will concentrate on the motivations and design of scientific metadata as developed and deployed on scientific facilities within STFC.

2) Pete Johnston is a Technical Researcher at Eduserv Foundation in Bath, UK. He is a member of the OAI-ORE (Object Reuse and Exchange, an OAI initiative) Technical Committee, a co-developer of SWAP (Scholarly Works Application Profile), Collection Description Metadata Solutions, the Dublin Core Abstract Model and related stuff, one of the leading metadata experts on the technical, encoding and standards side. His blog, presented together with Andy Powell, provides many details and insights relevant to our seminar theme.

Pete will present about relevant developments in the mentioned contexts with a certain e-science application perspective.

3) Thomas Baker, having a great general overview in the fields of Metadata and Semantic Web applications, will present on a metadata engineering methodology and provide an overview on recent developments reg. web-enabled vocabularies. He is Director Specifications and Documentation of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, Chair of KIM-AG (Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten) and a Co-chair of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group.

4) Jacco van Ossenbruggen is a senior researcher with the Semantic Media Interfaces group at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), and affiliated as an assistant professor with the Intelligent systems and services research group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests include semantic web interfaces (/facet browser), multimedia on the Semantic Web (SMIL), and the automatic generation of user-tailored hypermedia presentations. Jacco is currently active in the MultimediaN E-Culture project and the K-Space European Network of Excellence.

For details, please visit the seminar preparation page on CoLab, the MPDL Wiki.

Verantwortliche Organisation:
Max Planck Digital Library

Koordination:
Andreas Gros
Amalienstr. 33
80799 München
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Tel.: +49 (0) 89 38602 242
Fax.: +49 (0) 89 38602 280

Assistenz:
Katrin Gashi
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 38602 226
Email: mpg-escience[at]mpdl.mpg.de
www.escience.mpg.de