Commercial In Confidence
	CERIF/ 01 /03
CERIF COURSE
Proposed Schedule and Topics for 17. – 18. February2003	Keith G Jeffery 7. February 2003

DAY	TIME	TOPIC	CONTENT	Lead
		SESSION 1
17th	1030	INTRODUCTION	Introductions of people; objectives of course	Kj
	1045		What is CERIF	Aa
			Why CERIF 91	Aa
			Why CERIF 2000	Aa
			CERIF Today	Kj
	1100
		SESSION 2
17th	1100	USE OF CERIF	CRIS and their usage	Kj
	1110		Database, data and metadata	Kj
	1120		Data Exchange	Kj
	1130		Data Access over Heterogeneous Sources	Kj
	1140		Data Model for an ‘ideal’ CRIS	Kj
	1150		CERIF systems	Kj
	1200
		SESSION 3
	1300	DATA MODEL 1	Full, exchange and metadata models	Aa
	1310	(overview level)	Full model – overview (nutshell)	Aa
	1330		The concept of binary relations, recursion – linking relations	Aa
	1340		The concept of character / language variants	Aa
	1350		The concept of enumerated lists – dictionaries, thesauri, ontologies	Aa
	1400
		SESSION 4
	1430	DATA MODEL 2	Full model – primary base entities	Aa
	1445	(detailed diagrams)	Full model – secondary base entities	Aa
	1500		Full model – Language-base entities	Aa
	1515		Full model – Lookup tables	Aa
	1530		Full model – linking relations: at one level, recursion, at different levels	Aa
	1545		Exchange Model and Metadata Model	Aa
	1600
		SESSION 5
18th	0900	IMPLEMENTATION	Language handling	Kj
	0915		Classification schemes and enumerated lists, dictonaries, thesauri	Kj
	0930		Domain ontologies	Kj
	1000		Versions for Relational DBMS	Kj
	1015		Mapping CERIF to RDBMS	Kj
	1045		OODBMS and IR systems	Kj
	1100		Keys	Kj
	1115		Surrogate keys in linking relations	Kj
	1130
		SESSION 6
	1200	EVOLUTION	How to propose changes	Aa
			Proposed changes	Aa
	1210		Dublin Core	Aa
	1220		Results/publications	Aa
	1230		Beat’s classification scheme	Aa
	1240		How to go forward	Kj
	1300