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The University of Illinois intends to send at least two participants. Thanks for organizing this. Beth 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] > > -- Beth Sandore Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy 246 A Library 1408 W. Gregory Dr. University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois 61801 Tel. 217.333.2592 Fax 217.244.4358 Net [log in to unmask]