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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.
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