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Please excuse the cross-posting. For those of you interested in the DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group’s work on a set of draft MODS Implementation Guidelines (http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/DLF_MODS_ImpGuidelines_ver4.pdf) and who are able to attend the DLF Spring Forum, I'd like to alert you to the Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions on April 11 at the Digital Library Federation Spring Forum (http://www.diglib.org/forums/spring2006/) where we'll discuss the comments we've received on the initial draft released, our subsequent revisions to the Guidelines, and solicit additional comments and feedback from the participants in the BOF. This BOF will span both BOF slots (4:15-5:15 and 5:25-6:25) at the forum; attendees should feel free to drop in at any time. Although there may be some overlap between the two sessions, the first session will focus on an overview of the comments received and a discussion of the changes made to the guidelines. The second session will largely be devoted to an open discussion of the best approach to a central question raised by the guidelines and comments received: how and where to describe the original analog object and its digital surrogate. The Metadata Working Group has worked through examples of several different approaches to this question and will present these at the BOF. Example documents are also available for review prior to the BOF at: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/sshreeve/www/MWGSummaryforBOF.htm The DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group is: Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Chair) Laura Akerman, Emory University John Chapman, University of Minnesota Melanie Feltner-Reicher, University of Tennessee Bill Landis, California Digital Library David Reynolds, Johns Hopkins University Jenn Riley, Indiana University Gary Shawver, New York University -------------------------------------------------------- Sarah L. Shreeves Coordinator, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign Phone: 217-244-3877 or 217-244-7809 Email: [log in to unmask]