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:
- Electronic Information Management
- Technologies for Searching Better
- Technologies for Describing Better
- What is Metadata
- Benefits and Types of Metadata
- Metadata - Tools & Services
- Metadata on the Internet
- Case Study - Dublin Core
- Case Study - W3C Resource Description Framework
- Metadata Registries
- Metadata Repositories
- Architecture and Interoperability
- Future Directions
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.