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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(With apologies for any cross-posting, and please pass on to interested colleagues...)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The deadline is now very close for submissions to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, to be held in Vienna 19-24 April.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Please consider submitting an abstract to session ESSI9 “</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Data and Metadata Models & Mark-up Languages</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”. Submissions are invited on topics including (but not limited to) the following:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Data and Metadata schemas for the Geosciences</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Mark-up languages</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Conceptual models for scientific data types</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">ISO coverages and features as different views onto data</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Multi-dimensional data modeling</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Observations and measurements models and schemas</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Harmonization of data and metadata models for Geospatial Information and Earth and Space Sciences</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Integrating binary formats with conceptual schemas and mark-up languages</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Multilingualism</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Data and metadata granularity</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Discovery, evaluation and use metadata</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Symbol">·<FONT FACE="Courier New"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Exposing data models through web-based services</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Please submit abstracts by this</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B> <FONT FACE="Calibri">Tuesday 13 January 2009</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/session/410"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/session/410</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Many thanks,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Andrew Woolf</FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Dr Andrew Woolf (andrew.woolf@stfc.ac.uk)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><BR>
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</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Rutherford Appleton Lab</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><BR>
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