[ANNOUNCEMENT] Metadata Workshop at ALA

[Jul,Erik]

The OCLC Institute announces a one-day Metadata Workshop, 8:00 a.m.-4:00
p.m., Friday, June 26, Renaissance Washington Hotel, Renaissance East
Room, 999 Ninth Street, Washington D.C. (conveniently located near the
ALA convention center).
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 
Registration fee includes all course materials and instruction,
refreshments, and lunch.  Special early-bird pricing available.  Also,
we will apply $50 of your registration fee toward your registration for
a fall 1998 OCLC Institute Seminar, "Understanding and Using Metadata."
For more information and to register online, please see
http://purl.org/oclc.institute.

Yours truly,

--Erik

Erik Jul
Associate Director
OCLC Institute
jul at oclc.org