[CONF] Managing Metadata for The Digital Library: Crosswalks or Chaos (1998.05.04-05: Washington, D.C.)

[Terry Kuny]

ALCTS and LITA to hold institute on Metadata

"Managing Metadata for The Digital Library: Crosswalks or Chaos," an
institute cosponsored by the Association for Library Collections &
Technical Services (ALCTS) and the Library and Information Technology
Association  (LITA), will be held on May 4-5, 1998, in Washington, D.C.,
at the Georgetown University Conference Center.  The registration
deadline is April 17, 1998. ALCTS and LITA are divisions of the American
Library Association.

Part of the challenge of building digital libraries is developing the metadata
infrastructure needed to manage, maintain, and deliver digital materials.
Metadata for the digital library encompasses not only traditional
cataloging information, but also all of the information necessary to
construct, preserve, and control the access to and presentation of digital
content.  This institute brings together experts in the metadata and digital
library fields to present the latest developments, standards, and tools,
and to explore the impact of digital library development on our existing
catalogs and processes.

Through presentations and discussions, library managers and staff who
are or will be involved in planning the control of digital library materials.
will address the classes of metadata in the digital library, their functions,
and relationships between them.  They will become familiar with
prominent metadata standards, their development and applications, to
gain a context for local decisions about digital library development.

To date, faculty includes:

William Y. Arms, Corporation for National Research Initiatives; Priscilla
Caplan, Assistant Director for Systems in the University of Chicago
Library; Co-chair NISO Standards Development Committee; Rebecca
Guenther, MARC Standards Specialist, Network Development & MARC
Standards Office, Library of  Congress; Ben Kessler, Director, Slide and
Photograph Collections, Princeton University; Carl Lagoze, Project
Leader, Digital Library Research Group, Computer  Science Department,
Cornell University; Clifford Lynch, Director, Coalition for Networked
Information; Carol Mandel, Deputy University Librarian, Columbia
University ; Douglas Nebert, National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
Coordinator, Federal Geographic Data Committee;  Daniel Pitti, Project
Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University
of Virginia;  David Seaman, Director of Electronic Texts, University of
Virginia; Donald J. Waters, Director, Digital Library Federation, Council on
Library   and Information Resources; Stuart Weibel, Senior Research
Scientist, Office of Research and Special  Projects, OCLC.

Registration fees: are $220 for ALCTS/LITA personal members, $275 for
American Library Association personal members, and $320 for
non-members. For additional information or to register, visit the Web site
at http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/institutes/metadata.html, or contact
Valerie Edmonds at vedmonds at ala.org or call 312 280-4269.