METS Implementors' Meeting 2006 (MIM 2006)
June 15, 2006

Held as a post-conference Workshop of the
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006)
June 11-15, 2006 - Chapel Hill, NC, USA

For meeting information, see the MIM 2006 Wiki
http://www.socialtext.net/mim-2006/

Registration will be through the JCDL website http://www.jcdl2006.org/

The METS Implementors' Meeting will be an opportunity for the community that is using the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard to meet and talk about how they have implemented METS systems, share profiles for METS XML Documents, and organize to work on the future development of METS as a standard.

It will serve, in short, as a kind of town hall meeting for the METS community. METS is a standard that is maintained by an informal editorial board. The Board wants to be responsive to the needs of the METS community. And the Board can't make METS successful on its own.

Multiple projects have found METS has provided them some benefit in varied implementations. However, there is an implicit vision in METS of digital object interoperability. The interoperability of current METS implementations is largely untested. METS can not fulfill its potential without participation and effective organization of the METS implementors community.

Specific areas the METS Editorial Board is interested in exploring are:

• A METS reference implementation or API
• Sharing XSLT viewers and other applications
• METS as a data structure
• Creation and maintenance tools
• PROFILE development and registration
• Explore digital information artifact lifecycle issues
• Other topics suggested by participants

Expected audience:
People who are implementing systems that use METS.