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Germany-based company CCS Content Conversion Specialists GmbH is offering a hands-on workshop introducing their product docWORKS, a content-conversion software solution. This workshop will benefit professionals interested in an integrated in-house solution for content-conversion projects focused on books and journals. CCS staff will coach participants through the content conversion process from image preprocessing, OCR, XML markup to METS/ALTO XML export, and are encouraged to bring a sample publication to the workshop to work with. Attendees will work with the software and leave the workshop with METS/ALTO XML data plus structured PDF files with hidden text of the submitted sample material, e.g., TIFF images of a book or journal, up to but not exceeding 400 pages. This interactive workshop is a great opportunity for those looking for content-conversion solutions and those who have already implemented docWORKS and are seeking additional training. To register for this event, contact Barrie Howard, [log in to unmask] Daniel Lanz from CCS will be conducting the workshop. He is the docWORKS project manager, and has worked withMore information regarding CCS is available from http://www.ccs-gmbh.de. If you have specific questions regarding the workshop, please contact Daniel by e-mail, [log in to unmask], or telephone, +49 (0) 40 227 130-18. CCS is engaged in the NDNP project and plans to offer docWORKS for NDNP compliant content conversion of newspapers, see http://www.loc.gov/ndnp. The agenda for this workshop is as follows: Sunday, November 6, 2004, Computer Classroom, Alderman Library, the University of Virginia 01:30 p.m.--03:00 p.m. General introduction, presentation with overview, use cases, introduction to the application, etc. 03:00 p.m.--03:30 p.m. Coffee break 03:30 p.m.--05:30 p.m. Interactive training module simultaneously with breakout sessions for individualized consultation Best regards, Barrie L. Howard Program Associate Digital Library Federation 1755 Mass. Ave., NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20036-2124 http://www.diglib.org V: (202) 939-4769 F: (202) 939-4765