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Subject: METS awareness training seminar
MAT - METS Awareness Training Seminar
Oxford University Library Services, Oxford Monday 25th September 2006
The fifth seminar in the JISC-supported METS Awareness Training series will
take place from 11am to 4pm on 25th September 2006 at Oxford University
Library Services, Oxford.
METS is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural
metadata for objects within a digital library: written in XML, it aims to
provide a single framework within which all this metadata can be integrated,
so allowing its easy maintenance and interchangeability.
The primary aims of the seminar are to raise general awareness of METS and
other closely related emerging standards, and to provide participants with
information to allow them to assess how METS (and related standards) might
contribute to their institution's current and planned digital preservation
and asset management activities. This does not aim to provide hands-on
training on METS, but rather a general introduction to the standard and an
awareness of the key decision processes necessary to implement METS for a
given project. The seminar will involve presentations, exercises for
participants based on case studies, and plenty of discussion. Participants
are asked to bring to the seminar any ideas they currently have for digital
library projects in their institutions and to be prepared to share them with
the other attendees.
The final seminar will take place at Edinburgh University on 3rd
November: further details to be announced.
Further details about the project are available at
http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/projects/projects_mets.htm. For further details on
METS, see the METS home page at http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets.
To register, please please contact Andrea Stubbs on 01937 546582 or email
[log in to unmask] . The seminar is free of charge.
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