Commercial In Confidence
	CERIF/ 01 /02
CERIF COURSE
Proposed Schedule and Topics for 4-5 December	Keith G Jeffery 01 November 2002

DAY	TIME	TOPIC	CONTENT	Lead
		SESSION 1
5th	1400	INTRODUCTION	Introductions of people; objectives of course	Kj
	1430		What is CERIF	Aa
			Why CERIF 91	Aa
			Why CERIF 2000	Aa
	1500		CERIF Today – implementations, plans	Kj
	1530
		SESSION 2
5th	1600	USE OF CERIF	CRIS and their usage	Kj
	1615		Database, data and metadata	Kj
	1645		Data Exchange	Kj
	1700		Data Access over Heterogeneous Sources	Kj
	1715		Data Model for an ‘ideal’ CRIS	Kj
	1730		CERIF in Use - demos	Kj
	1800
		SESSION 3
6th	0900	DATA MODEL 1	Full, exchange and metadata models	Aa
	0915	(overview level)	Full model – overview (nutshell)	Aa
	0945		The concept of binary relations, recursion – linking relations	Aa
	1000		The concept of character / language variants	Aa
	1015		The concept of enumerated lists – dictionaries, thesauri, ontologies	Aa
	1030
		SESSION 4
	1100	DATA MODEL 2	Full model – primary base entities	Aa
	1115	(detailed diagrams)	Full model – secondary base entities	Aa
	1130		Full model – Language-base entities	Aa
	1145		Full model – Lookup tables	Aa
	1200		Full model – linking relations: at one level, recursion, at different levels	Aa
	1215		Exchange Model and Metadata Model
	1230
		SESSION 5
	1400	IMPLEMENTATION	Language handling	Kj
	1415		Classification schemes and enumerated lists, dictonaries, thesauri	Kj
	1430		Domain ontologies	Kj
	1500		Versions for Relational DBMS	Kj
	1515		Mapping CERIF to RDBMS	Kj
	1545		OODBMS and IR systems	Kj
	1600		Keys	Kj
	1615		Surrogate keys in linking relations	Kj
	1630
		SESSION 6
	1700	EVOLUTION	How to propose changes	Aa
			Proposed changes	Aa
	1715		Dublin Core	Aa
	1730		Results/publications	Aa
	1745		Beat’s classification scheme	Aa
	1800		How to go forward	Kj
	1830