USC will want to send 2-3 individuals.  The timing of the training seems
fine in October.

Lynn O'Leary-Archer

Jerome McDonough wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>The METS Editorial Board is considering holding a 1-2 day training event
>on implementing METS.  We would like to request some feedback from
>the digital library community to determine whether we should go ahead with
>this event, and to shape it to people's needs .  We have tentatively scheduled
>it for October 27-28 of this year, to be held in Washington, DC, and we
>are assuming that the event would either be free or have a minimal (<$100)
>registration cost.  Attendees would have to fund their own travel and
>hotel costs.  Some presentations we are considering including in this event are:
>
>* an in-depth introduction to METS, including hands-on production of a METS example
>* case studies of implementation of METS at various institutions
>* using METS with existing software systems such as DSpace & Fedora
>* developing software tools to work with METS, including RDBM systems and XSLT tools
>
>The questions we have for the METS community are:
>
>1. Would you be interested in attending such an event?  Do you believe
>your institution would be interested in sending people to such an event?
>Can you estimate how many people your institution might wish to send?
>
>2. Do any of the named topics have particular interest for you/your institution?
>Are there other topics you would like to see presented at a training event on METS?
>
>3. Would you be more likely to attend such an event at a different time?  A different
>location?  Are there other factors which might make you more likely to attend?
>
>Please send your responses directly to [log in to unmask] and I will
>compile your answers for the board.  We should have a decision on whether to
>go ahead with this event shortly.   Thanks for your help!
>
>Jerome McDonough
>METS Editorial Board
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