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Standards Interoperability Forum One of the main objectives of the CORES project is the organisation of a Standards Interoperability Forum, bringing together major metadata standardisation activities to discuss practicalities of cross-standard interoperability. In preparation for the summit a survey was undertaken to gather the opinions of key people from various metadata standardisation initiatives, as well as from umbrella organisations (OASIS and W3C). The questionnaire covered various issues relevant to seeking a common approach to declaring and sharing semantics, including opinions on the diversity of standards, modelling issues, publication and maintenance issues, and registry issues. Survey results have been used to frame a discussion paper that seeks to establish common ground between the variety of approaches. The meeting of the CORES Interoperability Forum took place as planned on 18 November 2002 in Brussels. The event attracted participation from high-level actors from a wide range of metadata activities. The meeting was attended by representatives of the following standards: CERIF
(http://www.eurocris.org/taskgroups/cerif/) ... while others had contributed opinions and position statements:
DOI (http://www.doi.org/) Material distributed prior to the meeting included the Agenda (PDF Format), CORES Introduction (Powerpoint format), Survey report (PDF Format) and Discussion paper (PDF Format). The result of the meeting was a resolution on a common approach toward unique and persistent identification of metadata elements, an approach that will be extremely important for interoperability between metadata standards in the future and for any vision related to the Semantic Web that the Commission may want to pursue with projects in this area. For the full text of the Resolution see: (HTML) | MS Word) | (PDF) After the meeting, a mailing list has been established for the participants in the Interoperability Forum to discuss issues of interest and consider areas for future co-operation. News The DOI is progressing its commitment to the CORES resolution: http://www.doi.org/news/030415dictionarynews.pdf Maintained and hosted by: UKOLN |