- The CIMI Institute and Australian Museums On-Line (AMOL) are pleased
to present:
- Helping People Find What They Want: Implementing the Dublin Core in
Museums
- K-Mart Learning Centre
- Powerhouse Museum
- 500 Harris Street
- Sydney, Australia
- November 29-30, 1999
- A two day workshop that focuses on information access and management
issues in museums and cultural heritage organizations through the use of
the CIMI recommendations for the Dublin Core metadata standard.
This workshop is designed for museum and cultural heritage professionals,
information managers, systems staff, and administrators looking for ways
to better manage information resources and make them available to the
broad World Wide Web audience. Technical expertise is not
required.
- The workshop offers participants the opportunity to learn about and
gain insight into this resource discovery standard. Issues and
concepts covered include:
- Integrated Information Management
- Resource Discovery
- Metadata
- Making the business case - when to implement the standard
- What is the Dublin Core? What isn't it?
- Syntax
- Structure
- Semantics
To find out more about the workshop and register, visit the CIMI web
site at