From ofgraf@stormy.clearlake.ibm.com Wed Apr 6 16:29:17 1994 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["7513" "Wed" " 6" "April" "1994" "14:50:46" "-0500" "Otis Graf" "ofgraf@stormy.clearlake.ibm.com" nil "203" "Metadata Workshop" "^From:" nil nil "4" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from cv3.cv.nrao.edu by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA22667; Wed, 6 Apr 94 16:29:14 EDT Received: from ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov by cv3.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.13) id AA26138; Wed, 6 Apr 94 16:29:11 EDT Received: from pierce.llnl.gov by ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA16711; Wed, 6 Apr 94 12:56:26 PDT Received: by pierce.llnl.gov (4.1/LLNL-1.18/llnl.gov-05.92) id AA09840; Wed, 6 Apr 94 12:57:46 PDT Return-Path: Received: from stormy.clearlake.ibm.com by pierce.llnl.gov (4.1/LLNL-1.18/llnl.gov-05.92) id AA09831; Wed, 6 Apr 94 12:57:40 PDT Received: by stormy.clearlake.ibm.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA21321; Wed, 6 Apr 1994 14:50:46 -0500 Message-Id: <9404061950.AA21321@stormy.clearlake.ibm.com> From: ofgraf@stormy.clearlake.ibm.com (Otis Graf) To: metadata@llnl.gov Subject: Metadata Workshop Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 14:50:46 -0500 *********************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************** Workshop on Metadata for Scientific and Technical Data Management ================================================================= IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Mass Storage Systems Specialist Workshop Chair: Francis Bretherton, Vice-Chair: Otis Graf May 16-18, 1994 National Archives, Archives II Washington, D.C. Increasingly large amounts of scientific and technical data are being created and saved in digital data storage systems. There is a need to expedite the access and use of this data, and to promote interdisciplinary sharing of the data. A variety of different data types and formats need to be addressed, such as: images, audio, video, tables, arrays, graphics, algorithms and procedures, and documents. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together individuals with a common interest in managing and using large stores of scientific and technical data. The focus will be on defining a framework for metadata (data describing the stored data). It is a particular goal of the specialist workshop series to produce a metadata reference model for scientific and technical data management. It is expected that the workshop will be of interest to the following groups: o Users and managers of scientific & technical databases - Astrophysics and astronomy - Biochemistry - Biological - Earth Science - Environmental - Geographical Information Systems - Geophysics and Exploration - High Energy Physics - Intelligence and surveillance - Process Control Systems - Visualization o Computer scientists o Hardware and software vendors o Data system integrators WORKSHOP SPONSOR: IEEE Mass Storage Systems & Technology Technical Committee Bob Coyne, coyne@vnet.ibm.com, (713) 282-7274 WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES (1) Create an intellectual framework and guide for metadata. This can be called a "Metadata Reference Model" for scientific and technical data management. (2) Begin a development effort for the Reference Model. Identify the need for such a model and necessary participants in its development. Begin to define some of the elements of the Reference Model. (3) Identify data providers and data consumers. Determine how they should influence the Reference Model. (4) Determine the technology required to implement an application of the Reference Model. (5) Identify work in progress and describe how that work relates the draft Reference Model. WORKSHOP STRUCTURE The workshop will begin with a series of keynote speakers to set the direction for the following days work. Then the workshop chair and organizing committee will present the scope and objectives, as well as draft versions of the reference model and definitions of terms. The heart of the workshop will be four work groups meeting separately. Prior to breaking into separate groups, the chair will give specific topics and directions to each group. The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion session and a summary session. PARTICIPATION Workshop participation will be limited to 50 persons. It is expected that all participants are active researchers or developers, and have an interest in the management of large stores of scientific or technical data. Participants should submit position papers through electronic mail (preferred), regular mail or FAX by no later than April 20, 1994. Position papers can be a review, original research contributions, extensions of previous work, or application briefs. The position papers will be made available to all workshop attendees. Participants should also read the three reference papers listed below. Copies of the first two items can be downloaded from the anonymous FTP server ftp.clearlake.ibm.com in the directory pub/IEEE_Metadata. The third item can be requested in printed form from the Workshop Coordinator. Participants will be selected by the workshop organizers based on the position papers. Please e-mail or send position papers to the workshop coordinator (Otis Graf) at the address below. The registration fee for the 2 1/2 day workshop is $300.00, which includes breaks and continental breakfasts. Checks or money orders should be made payable to Jorge Scientific Corporation. Registration fees will be collected at the workshop. WORKSHOP CHAIR Francis Bretherton Univ. of Wisconsin, Space Science and Engineering Center E-mail: fbretherton@ssec.wisc.edu VICE-CHAIR & WORKSHOP COORDINATOR Otis Graf IBM U.S. - Federal 3700 Bay Area Blvd. Houston, Texas 77058 FAX: (713) 282-7439 Phone: (713) 282-8216 E-mail: ofgraf@clearlake.ibm.com ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Francis Bretherton, Univ. of Wisconsin SSEC Charles Dollar, National Archives Dave Fulker, Unidata Program Center Otis Graf, IBM U.S. - Federal Paul Kanciruk, Oak Ridge National Lab Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Dave Sebring, IBM U.S. - Federal Paul Singley, Oak Ridge National Lab Steve Worley, National Center for Atmospheric Research ADVISORY COMMITTEE Jim Almond, Univ. of Texas CHPC John Davis, DOD Ft. George Meade (IEEE MSS&TC EC) Tom Karl, NOAA NCDC Bernard T. O'Lear, NCAR (IEEE MSS&TC EC) Ron Pfaff, LANL Tom Pyke, NOAA HPCC Dick Watson, LLNL (IEEE MSS&TC EC) Greg Withee, NOAA ESDIM WORKSHOP AGENDA Monday, May 16, 1994 8:00 Registration 8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:45 Welcome and Introductions 9:00 Keynote Speaker #1: Greg Withee, NOAA 9:30 Keynote Speaker #2 10:00 Break 10:30 Discussion of Workshop and Objectives 11:00 Metadata Definition and System Assumptions 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Discussion on Reaction to Draft Metadata Reference Model 2:00 Specific Guidance to Work Groups 3:00 Breakout into four Work Groups 5:30 Adjourn for the day Tuesday, May 17, 1994 8:30 Continental Breakfast 9:00 Breakout into four Work Groups 10:30 Break 10:50 Breakout into four Work Groups 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Breakout into four Work Groups 3:00 Break 3:20 Breakout into four Work Groups 5:30 Adjourn for the day Wednesday, May 18, 1994 8:30 Continental Breakfast 9:00 Reports from the four Work Groups 10:00 Break 10:30 Panel session with audience discussion 12:00 Workshop summary, recommendations and forward plans 1:00 Adjourn the workshop REFERENCE MATERIAL (1) F. Bretherton, Draft of the Metadata Reference Model (2) B. Gritton, "Metadata Definitions" (3) C. Hsu, M. Bouziane and L. Yee, "Information Resources Management in Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments: A Metadatabase Approach", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 6, June 1991. From msiegel@mit.edu Thu Apr 7 13:34:44 1994 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["608" "Thu" " 7" "April" "1994" "13:22:48" "" "Michael Siegel" "msiegel@mit.edu" nil "11" "Papers on Context available (ftp site)" "^From:" nil nil "4" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from cv3.cv.nrao.edu by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA24845; Thu, 7 Apr 94 13:34:43 EDT Received: from ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov by cv3.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.13) id AA29415; Thu, 7 Apr 94 13:34:40 EDT Received: from pierce.llnl.gov by ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA29977; Thu, 7 Apr 94 10:22:00 PDT Received: by pierce.llnl.gov (4.1/LLNL-1.18/llnl.gov-05.92) id AA13866; Thu, 7 Apr 94 10:23:21 PDT Return-Path: Received: from MIT.EDU (MIT.MIT.EDU) by pierce.llnl.gov (4.1/LLNL-1.18/llnl.gov-05.92) id AA13794; Thu, 7 Apr 94 10:23:06 PDT Received: from CCS-MAC-2.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10983; Thu, 7 Apr 94 13:21:41 EDT Message-Id: <9404071721.AA10983@MIT.EDU> From: msiegel@mit.edu (Michael Siegel) To: metadata@llnl.gov Cc: smadnick@mit.edu, sciore@gc63.bc.edu, arnie@mitre.org Subject: Papers on Context available (ftp site) Date: Thu, 07 Apr 94 13:22:48 As an interested party in metadata research our group at the MIT Sloan School of Management is working in semantic representation and integration for heterogenous information systems. Issues like the theory of context (i.e., metadata) definition, use of context mediators, use of ontologies in resolving semantic conflicts and other issues we believe are important to the metadata community have been researched. A growing number of our papers are avaiable in postscript form via anonymous ftp at context.mit.edu in the directory /pub/papers. We look forward to any comments regarding these works. From sumpter@llnl.gov Thu Apr 7 18:38:24 1994 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1407" "Thu" " 7" "April" "1994" "15:25:54" "PDT" "Robyne Sumpter" "sumpter@llnl.gov" nil "39" "List name changing" "^From:" nil nil "4" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from cv3.cv.nrao.edu by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA25438; Thu, 7 Apr 94 18:38:23 EDT Received: from ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov by cv3.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.13) id AA00767; Thu, 7 Apr 94 18:38:20 EDT Received: from pierce.llnl.gov by ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA06442; Thu, 7 Apr 94 15:26:03 PDT Received: by pierce.llnl.gov (4.1/LLNL-1.18/llnl.gov-05.92) id AA11878; Thu, 7 Apr 94 15:27:24 PDT Return-Path: Received: from ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov by pierce.llnl.gov (4.1/LLNL-1.18/llnl.gov-05.92) id AA11866; Thu, 7 Apr 94 15:27:20 PDT Received: from [134.9.50.11] (sumpter-mac.ocf.llnl.gov) by ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA06438; Thu, 7 Apr 94 15:25:55 PDT Message-Id: <9404072225.AA06438@ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov> X-Sender: sumpter@ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov From: sumpter@llnl.gov (Robyne Sumpter) To: ieee-metadata@llnl.gov Subject: List name changing Date: Thu, 7 Apr 94 15:25:54 PDT The metadata mail list was formed to facilitate information sharing between participants of the IEEE sponsored Metadata and Data management workshops and other interested parties. To reflect the IEEE Mass Storage Systems and Technology Technical Committee's involvement in this activity and their sponsorship of the metadata and data management workshops, the NAME of the metadata MAILLIST IS CHANGING. The old and new names follow. Both names will continue to work for a while, but please change them as soon as possible. If you have any trouble with the new addresses, please send mail to me. OLD NEW metadata-request@llnl.gov ieee-metadata-request@llnl.gov metadata@llnl.gov ieee-metadata@llnl.gov Use ieee-metadata-request@llnl.gov to report problems, subscribe, or unsubscribe to the list. Messages intended for general distribution to the list should be sent to: ieee-metadata@llnl.gov. Thanks for your cooperation. Robyne =========================================================== Robyne M. Sumpter sumpter@llnl.gov Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Phone: (510) 423-5054 P.O. Box 808 L-60 Fax: (510) 423-8715 Livermore, CA 94550 =========================================================== From sumpter@llnl.gov Mon Apr 11 12:43:12 1994 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["705" "Mon" "11" "April" "1994" "09:22:49" "PDT" "Robyne Sumpter" "sumpter@llnl.gov" nil "19" "Metadata Web Page Online" "^From:" nil nil "4" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from cv3.cv.nrao.edu by fits.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.5) id AA02777; Mon, 11 Apr 94 12:43:10 EDT Received: from ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov by cv3.cv.nrao.edu (4.1/DDN-DLB/1.13) id AA12356; Mon, 11 Apr 94 12:43:08 EDT Received: from pierce.llnl.gov by ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA19414; Mon, 11 Apr 94 09:22:58 PDT Received: by pierce.llnl.gov (4.1/LLNL-1.18/llnl.gov-05.92) id AA25827; Mon, 11 Apr 94 09:24:20 PDT Return-Path: Received: from ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov by pierce.llnl.gov (4.1/LLNL-1.18/llnl.gov-05.92) id AA25810; Mon, 11 Apr 94 09:24:15 PDT Received: from [134.9.50.11] (sumpter-mac.ocf.llnl.gov) by ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA19409; Mon, 11 Apr 94 09:22:49 PDT Message-Id: <9404111622.AA19409@ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov> X-Sender: sumpter@ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov From: sumpter@llnl.gov (Robyne Sumpter) To: ieee-metadata@llnl.gov Subject: Metadata Web Page Online Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 09:22:49 PDT The metadata web page is now available for your enjoyment. The URL is: http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/metadata.html I have included many of the items that were discussed at the last metadata workshop. If you have any problems/concerns or suggested additions to the page, let me know. Robyne =========================================================== Robyne M. Sumpter sumpter@llnl.gov Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Phone: (510) 423-5054 P.O. Box 808 L-60 Fax: (510) 423-8715 Livermore, CA 94550 ===========================================================