(With apologies for any cross-posting, and please pass on to interested
colleagues...)
The deadline is now very close for submissions to the European Geosciences
Union General Assembly 2009, to be held in Vienna 19-24 April.
Please consider submitting an abstract to session ESSI9 "Data and Metadata Models &
Mark-up Languages". Submissions are invited on topics including (but not limited to) the
following:
* Data and Metadata schemas for the Geosciences
* Mark-up languages
* Conceptual models for scientific data types
* ISO coverages and features as different views onto data
* Multi-dimensional data modeling
* Observations and measurements models and schemas
* Harmonization of data and metadata models for Geospatial Information
and Earth and Space Sciences
* Integrating binary formats with conceptual schemas and mark-up languages
* Multilingualism
* Data and metadata granularity
* Discovery, evaluation and use metadata
* Exposing data models through web-based services
Please submit abstracts by this Tuesday 13 January 2009:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/session/410
Many thanks,
Andrew Woolf
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Dr Andrew Woolf (andrew.woolf@xxxxxxxxxx)
Environmental e-Science and Spatial Informatics
STFC e-Science Centre
Rutherford Appleton Lab
Chilton, Didcot, Oxon., OX11 0QX, UK
Ph: +44 (0)1235 778027
http://www.e-science.stfc.ac.uk/organisation/staff/andrew_woolf