SZTAKI - Department of Distributed Systems

The workshop examined what steps were necessary in the process of introducing e-administration in the Hungary. It did research in the chances of distributing e-democracy as widely as possible. It presents today's achievements and experiences through national and foreign (EUTIST-AMI) projects. It aimed at bringing the administrative people, sociologists, informatics together for a discussion to help them cooperate in solving the problems of introducing e-democracy. 

This international workshop was devoted to issues and applications in agent and middleware technologies. Some of the most interesting projects from the EUTIST-AMI (EUropean Take-up of essential Information Society Tecnologies - Agents and MIddleware) project-cluster was presented, particularly in the textile/clothing, training and radios sector, as well as in the area of system monitoring and avatars.

The W3C Hungarian Office and the Department of Distributed Systems organized this conference, which was opened by Béla Mohácsi, the Deputy Secretary for Information Societies. The conference examined the present and the near future of the infrastructural systems of Hungary's digital world, having a look at the current social practice, the available network systems and the institutes. According to Dr.

The workshop provided an introduction to the use of RDF to describe metadata vocabularies in the form of machine-understandable schemas. It focused on the publication of these schemas in the CORES Schema Registry. Practical sessions helped participants to learn to use the CORES Schema Creation Tool to prepare schemas and submit them to the Registry, and to navigate the schemas submitted via the Registry's Web interface.