ANNOUNCEMENT: Metadata Workshop at ALA

[Jul,Erik]

[Cross-posted to INTERCAT, AUTOCAT, and WEB4LIB.  Please redistribute as
appropriate.  --Erik]

Dear Readers:

The OCLC Institute is pleased to invite your registration for a one-day
Metadata Workshop 
on Friday, June 26, 1998, in Washington, D.C.  (Exact meeting location
to be determined.)

This workshop aims to provide you with the most you can learn in a
single day about:

* The state of metadata today
* Future directions 
* Whether you should use metadata 
* How you could start using metadata in your own applications 

Based on an in-depth examination of real-world applications, you will
learn: 

* The role of metadata in resource description systems 
* The details of metadata description, with an emphasis on the Dublin
Core 
* How to analyze your data and user needs 
* System design basics 
* Application of metadata for description, storage, retrieval and
display 
* Evaluation models 

Early registration price: $125.00 (good through Friday, June 19)

Refreshments, lunch, and course materials included with registration.

For more information and to register online, please see
http://www.oclc.org/institute/ala_workshop_metadata.htm

or contact Erik Jul at jul at oclc.org, (614) 764-4364, or (614) 718-7132
Fax.

Please consider this opportunity when you are making your ALA travel
plans!

--Erik

Erik Jul
Associate Director
OCLC Institute
jul at oclc.org