Metadata2012 Workshop

Programme

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The final proceedings of the workshop will be available on the LREC 2012 website soon.

Tuesday May 22, 2012

09:00 - 09:10	Welcome and Introduction Victoria Arranz and Thorsten Trippel
09:10 - 10:40	Overview Session
09:10 - 09:40	CMDI: a Component Metadata Infrastructure Daan Broeder, Menzo Windhouwer, Dieter van Uytvanck, Thorsten Trippel and Twan Goosen
09:40 - 10:10	The META-SHARE Metadata Schema: Principles, Features, Implementation and Conversion from other Schemas Maria Gavrilidou, Penny Labropoulou, Elina Desipri, Ioanna Giannopoulou, Olivier Hamon and Victoria Arranz
10:10 - 10:40	Applying Current Metadata Initiatives: The META-NORD Experience Gunn Inger Lyse, Carla Parra Escartín and Koenraad De Smedt
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 13:00	Working and Experiencing the Component Model
11:00 - 11:30	Building up a CLARIN resource center – Step 1: Providing metadata Volker Boehlke, Torsten Compart and Thomas Eckart
11:30 - 12:00	Infrastructure (CMDI) in a Project on Sustainable Linguistic Resources Thorsten Trippel, Christina Hoppermann and Griet Depoorter
12:00 - 12:30	Experiences and Problems creating a CMDI profile from an existing Metadata Schema Hanna Hedeland and Kai Wörner
12:30 - 13:00	A CMD Core Model for CLARIN Web Services Menzo Windhouwer, Daan Broeder and Dieter van Uytvanck
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 16:00	General Impulses and Test Cases
14:00 - 14:30	Towards an ontology of categories for multimodal annotation Peter Menke and Philipp Cimiano
14:30 - 15:00	User Activity Metadata for Reading, Writing and Translation Research Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund and Michael Carl
15:00 - 15:30	Metadata for a Mocoví - Quechua - Spanish parallel corpus Paula Estrella
15:30 - 16:00	Publishing and Exploiting Vocabularies using the OpenSKOS Repository Service Hennie Brugman and Mark Lindeman
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:45	Metadata Applications: Overview Presentations and Demos
16:30 - 16:45	Metadata Management with Arbil Peter Withers
16:45 - 17:00	SMC4LRT - groundwork for query expansion and semantic search Matej Durco, Daan Broeder and Menzo Windhouwer
17:00 - 17:15	Applying CMDI in real life: the Meertens case Martine de Bruin, Marc Kemps-Snijders, Jan Pieter Kunst, Maarten van der Peet, Rob Zeeman and Junte Zhang
17:15 - 17:45	Demos
17:45 - 18:30	Final Discussion and Wrap-up

Submissions

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Authors should use the START system accessible from https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/Metadata2012 and the LREC author's kit for submitting a two-column article of 4 to 8 pages.

For further queries, please contact Victoria Arranz at arranz [a] elda [dot] org or Thorsten Trippel at thorsten.trippel [at] uni-tuebingen [dot]de.

When submitting a paper through START, authors will be kindly asked to provide relevant information about the resources that have been used for the work described in their paper or that are the outcome of their research. For further information on this initiative, please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012. Authors will also be asked to contribute to the Language Library, the new initiative of LREC2012.

Main Conference

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The Workshop on Describing Language Resources with Metadata: Towards Flexibility and Interoperability in the Documentation of Language Resources is held in conjunction with the LREC 2012 conference organised by ELRA. - Main Conference / ouvert_rubrique

Important Dates

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Submission of full papers: Friday 24 February 2012 Notification of acceptance of papers and demonstrations: Thursday 22 March 2012 Submission of final version: Saturday 31 March 2012 Final programme available: Friday 13 April 2012 Workshop: Tuesday 22 May 2012 - Important Dates / ouvert_rubrique

Contact

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For further queries, please contact Victoria Arranz at arranz [at] elda [dot] org or Thorsten Trippel at thorsten.trippel [at] uni-tuebingen [dot] de. - Contact / ouvert_rubrique

Committees

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Organising Committee

Victoria Arranz (ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France)
Daan Broeder (MPI, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Bertrand Gaiffe (ATILF, Nancy, France)
Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP/Athena R.C., Athens, Greece)
Monica Monachini, (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy)
Thorsten Trippel (Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany)

Programme Committee

Helen Aristar-Dry (Michigan State University, USA)
Núria Bel (UPF, Barcelona, Spain)
Antonio Branco, (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Lars Borin (Språkbanken, Göteborg, Sweden)
Khalid Choukri (ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France)
Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany)
Matej Durco (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria)
Gil Francopoulo (CNRS-LIMSI-IMMI + TAGMATICA, Paris, France)
Francesca Frontini (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy)
Olivier Hamon (ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France)
Erhard Hinrichs (Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany)
Penny Labropoulou (ILSP/Athena R.C., Athens, Greece)
Jan Odijk (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Elena Pierazzo (Kings' College, London, UK)
Laurent Romary (INRIA, Nancy, France)
Andreas Witt (IDS, Mannheim, Germany)
Peter Wittenburg (MPI, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Tamás Varadi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
Marta Villegas (UPF, Barcelona, Spain)
Sue Ellen Wright (Kent State University, USA)

Call for Papers

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The description of Language Resources (LRs) continues to be a crucial point in the life cycle of LRs, and more particularly, in their sustainable exchange. This has been so for a number of repositories or LR distribution centres in place (ELRA, GSK, LDC, OLAC, TST-Centrale, BAS, among others), who house LR catalogues following some proprietary metadata schema. A number of projects and initiatives have also focused these past few years in the sharing of LRs (ENABLER, CLARIN, FLaReNet, PANACEA, META-SHARE), for example for Language Technology (LT)

Based on these initiatives a consensus emerges that shows a number of requirements for standardized metadata:

There should be a common publication channel for the LR descriptions in the world.
This channel allows users to carry out easy and efficient LR data discovery and possible subsequent retrieval of LRs.
Expert knowledge is required to create the data model for the metadata description.
Subject matter experts (both researchers and LR/LT providers and developers) are required to provide the content for the data model.
The data model needs to be clear, expressive, flexible, customizable and interoperable.
Metadata have to provide for different user groups, ranging from providers to consumers (both individuals and organisations). This applies both to the information contained in the metadata and the supporting tool infrastructure for creating, maintaining, distributing, harvesting and searching the metadata.

Currently several initiatives focus on metadata. From the realm of work done within initiatives like ENABLER and CLARIN descended the Component MetaData Infrastructure (CMDI, ISO TC 37 SC 4 work item for ISO 24622), which allows the combination of standard data categories (for example from ISO 12620, isocat.org) to components, which are combined into metadata profiles. Early versions of this model have been operational in repositories such as ELRA's, which complied with the work done within INTERA. FLaReNet, as the result of a permanent and cyclical consultation, has issued a set of main recommendations where a global infrastructure of uniform and interoperable metadata sets appear among the Top Priorities for the field of LRs. For use within HLT, META-SHARE provides a fully-fledged schema for the description of LRs, in the framework of the component model, covering all the current resource types and media types of use, in all the stages of a resource's life-cycle. Our aim is to learn from one another's experiences and plans in this area.

Making resources available for others and putting this to a second use in other projects has never been more widely accepted as a sensible efficient way to avoid a waste of efforts and resources. However, when it comes to the details, there is still a vast number of problems. This workshop will be a forum to address issues and challenges in the concrete work with metadata for LRs, not restricted to a single initiative for archiving LRs.

The current state of the art for metadata provision allows for a very flexible approach, catering for the needs of different archives and communities, referring to common data category registries that describe the meaning of a data category at least to authors of metadata. Component models for metadata provisions are for example used by CLARIN and META-SHARE, but there is also an increased flexibility in other metadata schemas such as Dublin Core, which is usually not seen as appropriate for meaningful description of language resources.

Topics of interest are:

Infrastructures for creating components and profiles for metadata
Editing and creating metadata
Porting legacy metadata
Metadata as a resource
Maintenance of metadata
Classification of language resources
Providing metadata concepts
Creating components and profiles
Services harvesting and interpreting metadata
Experience from the large LR data center catalogues: LDC, ELRA, BAS, and how to interoperate with them
Controlled vocabularies, terminology and metadata description
Formal models for metadata representation and standardized models of serialisation
Customization and reuse of metadata schemas
Plans or experiences with emerging metadata infrastructures as for example from CLARIN & META-SHARE
Experiences with the Component based metadata infrastructures
Integration and conversion of multiple repositories: experiences from META-SHARE, CESAR, METANET4U and META-NORD, etc.
Standardization issues for metadata

We invite submissions for full papers and system demonstrations that address these questions and other related issues relevant to the workshop.