SIGIR'98 Tutorial T3
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21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Melbourne, Australia

August 24 - 28, 1998

TUTORIAL T3

Metadata on the Internet



Presenters

Renato Iannella
Leader, Resource Discovery Unit
DSTC Pty Ltd, Australia
renato@dstc.edu.au

Time

Monday 24 August, 9:00am--12:30am.

Location

Melbourne Town Hall, Swanston Street, Melbourne.

Description

Metadata is defined as structured information about resources and enables the user to not only describe resources (documents, images, databases, etc) that they publish on the Internet, but to also how to effectively manage and organise these electronic resources. The aim of this tutorial is to provide a coverage of the issues and technologies that are relevant for an organisation faced with publishing and accessing information on the Internet/Intranet with Metadata.

Contents Include:

Audience

The intended audience is for information professionals who are interested in the benefits of metadata and technical professionals who are interested in the deployment of metadata systems.

Biographies of presenters

Dr Renato Iannella is a Senior Research Scientist at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) based in Brisbane, and is Leader of the Resource Discovery Unit which investigates technologies used in the discovery, access, and retrieval of electronic resources on the Internet. Renato is an active contributor to World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working group on Metadata (the Resource Description Framework) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group on Uniform Resources Identifiers. Renato also consults to Government agencies on Whole-of-Government search architectures and strategies. Renato has authored many papers on Internet resource discovery architecture and issues - including Dublin Core, metadata registries and repositories, digital libraries, and persistent naming.

More information

The following links provide some background material:

Cost

The charge for registration is $A150 per tutorial. Registrants will receive a copy of the notes for the tutorial, and morning/afternoon tea. All tutorials are offered on an only-if-demand-warrants basis; and full refunds will be given for tutorials that are cancelled because of low enrolments. Tutorial notes will also be available for sale on an individual basis at the conference registration desk.
sigir98@cs.mu.oz.au,
10 April 1998.