METS awareness training seminar

MAT - METS Awareness Training Seminar
British Library, Boston Spa, Monday 18th September

The fourth seminar in the JISC-supported METS Awareness Training series will take place from 11am to 4pm on 18th September 2006 at the British Library, Boston Spa.

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 Andrea Stubbs on 01937 546582 or
email Andrea.stubbs@bl.uk . The seminar is free of charge.