From yesterday, and during 3 days, Alcala de Henares is hosting the 4th Metadata and semantics research conference, MTSR 2010. This conference aims at becoming the main event for researchers in the area of metadata and semantics with an inter-disciplinary focus.
Partial view of the room where Ferdinando Villa gave his keynote talk
This years’ edition includes interesting keynote talks by international experts such as Christian M. Stracke, an expert and senior consultant with international reputation and numerous references within his main working fields policies and quality for learning, quality management, E-Learning, competence modelling and standardization; Dave Roberts, from the National History Museum, London, well known after his contribution to the EDIT project (in particular his work on Scratchpads); Ferdinando Villa, a renowned researcher on high-performance computer simulation, ecological modeling, and artificial intelligence applied to environmental data and model integration; and Brigitte Joerg, an elected CERIF taskgroup leader at euroCRIS -a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of Research Information Systems and their interoperability- and member of the euroCRIS Board.
The conference can be followed in Twitter searching for the tag #mtsr2010 and also through the Facebook MTSR (MeTadata and Semantics Research conference) open group.
