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The Metadata Enhancement and OAI Workshop will be held on July 24 - 25 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. This one and a half day workshop will bring together digital library professionals to examine automated and semi-automated strategies for metadata enhancement and remediation scenarios involving the OAI protocol. Some of the scenarios being considered include normalization of date and format fields, and taxonomy generation / assignment (through both clustering and classification techniques). The workshop will result in an agenda for specific experiments to assess various scenarios collaboratively in coming months, especially as part of the DLF Aquifer project. Workshop website: http://www.metascholar.org/events/2006/meow/ The workshop will include presentations and interactive discussions by the California Digital Library on date normalization, Emory University and UC Irvine on subject taxonomy generation and assignment, Illinois on automated asset action operations, Johns Hopkins University on authority remediation, Indiana University on evaluation of metadata remediation systems, and other institutions and topics. Registration for non-presenters is $50 to cover event meals. Seats are limited, so interested parties should register soon. Workshop details (presentation titles, times, etc.) will be updated on the website as details are finalized. This workshop is held with support from the Digital Library Federation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Best regards, Martin Halbert, PhD, MLIS Director for Digital Programs and Systems Robert W. Woodruff Library 540 Asbury Circle Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 (ph) 404-727-2204 (fax) 404-727-0827 (web) http://martin.library.emory.edu "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws!" - Alan Kay, 1971