Jerome,

Univ. of Pennsylavania Systems Staff would be interested in attending the METS training
event. I believe we would send 2-3 people.

We are a DSpace site and would also be interested in XSLT tools. An October meeting is
Wash.DC is fine.

Regards,

Roy


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Roy R. Heinz
Director, Information Systems
University of Pennsylvania Library
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Philadelphia, PA 19104
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http://www.library.upenn.edu


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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