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Apologies for cross-posting. -----Original Message----- From: Information, document distrubution and announcements for JISC 4/04 projects [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Gartner Sent: 28 September 2006 14:17 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: METS awareness training seminar MAT - METS Awareness Training Seminar Edinburgh University, November 3rd, 2006 The final seminar in the JISC-supported METS Awareness Training series will take place from 11am to 4pm on 3rd November 2006 at Edinburgh University. 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. Further details about the project are available at http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/projects/projects_mets.htm: future seminars will be announced here. For further details on METS, see the METS home page at http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets. To register, please please contact Elize Rowan, email:[log in to unmask] The seminar is free of charge.