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The University of Washington would probably send 2-3 people to the meeting. Joyce L. Ogburn, Associate Director of the Libraries Resources and Collection Management Services University of Washington [log in to unmask] 206-685-2889 ___________________________________ "The future is not something that happens to us. The future is something we do." (www.futurist.com/our_core_beliefs.htm) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerome McDonough" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:50 PM Subject: METS Request for Expressions of Interest > > > 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] >