[galeon] Invitation to submit an abstract to the EGU - ESSI

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• Subject: [galeon] Invitation to submit an abstract to the EGU - ESSI
• From: Stefano Nativi <nativi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:41:15 +0100

Dear colleague,

I am writing to invite you to submit an abstract to the forthcoming Earth and 
Space Sciences Informatics sessions in the European Geosciences Union General 
Assembly in Vienna, 19-24 April 2009. See  
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/sessionprogramme/ESSI

Authors are invited to submit abstracts by Tuesday 13 January 2009.  However, 
authors who also wish to apply for financial support must submit abstracts by 7 
December 2008.

There will be presentations on the OGC WCS standard specification; with the OGC we are 
discussing about a Splinter Meeting on "International geospatial standards for Earth 
and Space Sciences".

I would like to draw your attention to the following sessions:

ESSI10: "The SOA approach for Earth and Space Sciences" (to submit an abstract: 
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/abstractsubmission/411) The session is to 
be focused on relevant topics and open issues dealing with SOA for the Earth and Space 
Sciences; including, the SOA aspects related to SDI and 
cyber-infrastructures/e-infrastructures for Earth and Space Sciences. Presentations may 
address theoretical aspects as well as real-world projects that make use of SOA.

ESSI1:  "International Informatics Collaborations and Projects" (to submit an 
abstract: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/abstractsubmission/351) The 
session is to be focused on relevant collaborations and projects at the international 
level, dealing with informatics applied to Earth and Space Science.

ESSI8: "Data Preservation and Long Term Access" (to submit an abstract: 
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/abstractsubmission/408) The session is to 
be focused on relevant developments in the areas of data access, annotation and curation.

ESSI9: "Data and Metadata Models & Mark-up Languages" (to submit an abstract: 
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/abstractsubmission/410) The session is to be 
focused on relevant topics and open issues dealing with Data & Metadata Models and encoding 
languages (e.g. Mark-up languages) for the Earth and Space Sciences.

Please do not hesitate to contact me or one of the other conveners of the 
sessions should you have any questions, and please feel free to forward this 
message to others who may be interested.

Best regards,

Stefano Nativi

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Dr Stefano Nativi
Coordinator of the Earth and Space Science Informatics Laboratory
Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale of the
Italian National  Research Council (CNR-IMAA)

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