Yale would be interested in sending three or four people also,
please.  This course will be very useful.

Alice



At 07:55 AM 5/30/2003 -0700, Lizabeth Wilson wrote:


>The University of Washington is interested in sending 3-4 individuals to
>the METS meeting.  The topics outlined are right on target for our needs.
>
>Betsy
>
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>Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson
>Director of University Libraries
>University of Washington
>Box 352900
>Seattle, Washington 98195-2900, USA
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>On Mon, 26 May 2003, 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
> > [log in to unmask]
> >