Proposed SAINT2004 Workshop 4 : Metadata Applications on the Broadband Network Metadata is a key technology to support effective information distribution on the broadband network. Metadata has been applying to content management, knowledge description, distribution management, and network node control, based on the technologies for advanced resource discovery. The explosive development of XML technologies as a syntax requires metadata and related technologies as a semantics for description of resource and policy. The purpose of this workshop is exploring the effective information distribution based on the basic studies in many fields such as library, broadcast, network, model, semantics, Frameworks. We discuss metadata interoperability, application for the broadband network, and standardization in order to discover new possibilities and applications. The papers of the following fields and integrated some fields, framework, model, case studies, and prospects are invited. - Metadata Interoperability - Broadcast metadata - Content Management - Metadata in Digital Libraries, e-Government, and e-Learning - MPEG-7 - Semantic Web - RDF - Topic Map - Metadata for Network Control - Content ID & RFID Papers should be sent via e-mail to the Organizers no later than October 1. Please not that, according to the SAINT2004 Organizing Committee, the Workshop is subject to cancel when paper presentations will not be enough. We could be consider to collaborate with Workshop 9: "Ubiquitous Services and Networking" to create good opportunities. Important Date: Workshop Paper Submission Due: Oct. 1, 2003 Workshop Final Manuscript Due: Nov. 1, 2003 + Coordinator(s): Ray Atarashi, IIJ, Japan Junichi Kishigami, NTT, Japan Shigeo Sugimoto, Tsukuba Univ., Japan Hiroshi Yasuda, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Please send your paper to ray@iijlab.net