Report on the Second IEEE Metadata Conference (Metadata'97)
Ron Musick
Center for Applied Scientific Computing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808, L-561, Livermore, CA 94551
rmusick@llnl.gov
and
Chris Miller
NOAA - NESDIS - Environmental Info. Services
1315 East-West Highway, Room 15531
Silver Spring, MD 20910
miller@esdim.noaa.gov
Abstract
On September 15th and 16th, 1997 the Second IEEE Metadata Conference was
held at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
complex in Silver Spring, Maryland. The main objectives of this
conference series are to provide a forum to address metadata issues
faced by various communities, promote the interchange of ideas
on common technologies and standards related to metadata, and facilitate
the development and usage of metadata. Metadata'97 met these objectives,
drawing about 280 registered attendees from ten different countries and
over one hundred different institutions. The audience included
scientists, information technology specialists, and librarians from
communities as widespread as finance, climatology, and mass storage.
The technical program included two keynote addresses, two panel
presentations, as well as twenty-three papers and thirteen posters
selected from over one hundred abstracts. We provide highlights of the
conference below. For more details, the proceedings are available
electronically from the conference homepage at:
http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/md97.html.
Appeared in
SIGMOD Record, 1998.