This may interest some MCG members.

Sue Gordon
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> From: Michael Popham <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: "Metadata Matters" BCS one-day seminar 10/03/99
> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 2:44 PM
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> 
> British Computer Society
> Electronic & Multimedia Publishing Specialist Group
> 
> 		================
> 		METADATA MATTERS 
> 		================
> 
> Wednesday 10 March 1999 (10.00-5.30)
> Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies 
> Russell Square, London WC1
> 
> Metadata plays a crucial role in the identification, retrieval, and
> management of all digital assets. Yet this vital feature of the emerging
> electronic information landscape - the virtual space that we will all
soon
> inhabit - has for a long time remained largely unknown, disregarded, and
> misunderstood. However, now there is a growing consensus amongst
> information professionals of all backgrounds that metadata matters.
> 
> Generations of librarians have used metadata to catalogue collections of
> non-electronic materials. It is thanks to the existence of such
catalogues
> that any of us can find a book, compact disk, or video in our local
public
> library in a matter of minutes rather than days, and with a minimum of
> foreknowledge or expertise. Although it is less clear if or how one
should
> catalogue a multimedia CD-ROM or database, let alone an interactive
> electronic journal, or even an entire web site, developments with Digital
> Object Identifiers (DOI) are beginning to make such an approach possible.
> 
> The growing ubiquity of the Internet is encouraging the creation and
> distribution of a range of new digital resources - electronic texts,
> images, audio, and video files - each of which presents new problems when
> considering the assertion of intellectual property rights, implementing
> charging models, access restrictions, and the like. Here again, metadata
> matters and DOI has a role to play.
> 
> This meeting is intended to look at as many aspects of this fundamental
> topic as possible - including DOI, the Dublin Core, RDF (Resource
> Description Framework) - bringing together expert speakers from a range
of
> disciplines and industries, to present their experiences of creating and
> exploiting electronic metadata. The meeting should be of interest to
> anyone concerned with the development and use of digital assets, and will

> provide a vital forum for the interchange of ideas and expertise.
> 
> 
> Speakers
> ======== 
> 
> * Mark Bide, Mark Bide and Associates, will give an 'Introduction to
>   Metadata' - What is metadata, why do we need it and why is it suddenly
>   important?.
> 
> * Dave Beckett, University of Kent, will discuss 'Metadata and the Web'.
> 
> * Carola Boehm, University of Glasgow, will talk on 'Metadata and the
>   Performing Arts'.
> 
> * Dan Greenstein, Arts and Humanities Data Service, will consider
>   'Metadata for Cross-Domain Resource Discovery'.
> 
> * Rachel Heery, UKOLN, will discuss 'Metadata in Libraries'.
> 
> * Ray Lester, Natural History Museum, will talk about 'Museums and
>   Metadata'.
> 
> * Cliff Morgan, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, will discuss 'Metadata in
>   Publishing: Implementing the Dublin Core and other Schemes'
> 
> * Sally Morris, Association of Learned and Professional Society
>   Publishers, will consider 'Metadata and Rights'.
> 
> * Godfrey Rust, Data Definitions, will talk about 'Metadata Convergence
>   and Standards'.
> 
> * David Thomas and Meg Sweet, Public Record Office, will talk about
>   'Metadata in Archives: the Experiences of the PRO.
> 
> 
> Registration
> ============
> 
> To register for the seminar, complete and return the registration form
> available for download from:
> 
> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cc/staff/malcolm/metadata.htm
> 
> (Any enquiries should be sent to: BCS Electronic & Multimedia Publishing
> Specialist Group 30 Edgerton Road, Huddersfield HD3 3AD. Tel: 01484
> 519462; Fax: 01484 451396; email: [log in to unmask])
> 
> The fees are given below and include refreshments and lunch. Seminar
fees,
> but not the membership fee, are subject to VAT at 17.5%. If you join the
> EMP Group using the attached form, then you may claim the members' rate
> for attending the meeting. A VAT receipt will be provided. Cancellations
> must be received in writing not less than 14 days before the seminar, but
> substitutions can be made at any time. If you wish to be invoiced, there
> will be an additional charge of 10pounds plus VAT to cover administrative
> costs.
> 
> The fees are:
> 
> 	50 + VAT for members of the group
> 	100 + VAT for non-members
> 	25 + VAT for student members
> 
> Membership fees (until April 2000 - no VAT):
> 
> 	BCS members 22
> 	Others 32
> 	Students 5 (need evidence of student status)
> 
> Hard copy leaflets will shortly be sent to Group members, but the above
> details and information about previous meetings can be found on the Group
> web site at:
> 
> 	http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cc/staff/malcolm/bcs-emp.html
> 
> 
> David Penfold (Administrator, BCS EMPSG)
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> David Penfold, Edgerton Publishing Services
> 30 Edgerton Road, Huddersfield HD3 3AD, UK
> Tel 01484 519462; Fax 01484 451396; Mobile 0850 058544
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]


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