Tutorial: Metadata for Networked Resources (fwd)

[Debra Hiom]

Metadata for Networked Resources: a one day tutorial at the University
of Bristol, UK, to coincide with ALT-C 99.
 
Presenters:

Carl Lagoze, Cornell University
Eric Miller, OCLC 
Dan Brickley, ILRT
Rachel Heery, UKOLN 
Andy Powell, UKOLN 

Cost: 	55.00 UK Pounds
Date:	20 September 1999, 9.30 am - 4.30 pm 

Organised by the Institute for Learning and Research Technology.

This is a rare opportunity to hear authorities from the USA and Europe
speak simply but in detail about Metadata.  The tutorial will be
suitable for librarians, learning technologists, Web authors, Webmasters
and anyone else who wants to hear some answers to questions like:

Why is Metadata important?
What should I be doing about it?
What is RDF and how does it relate to Dublin Core?
How will my Metadata be used in the future?

The presenters have been key figures in the development of Dublin Core
(DC) and Resource Description Framework (RDF) and are actively involved in
the development of standards and solutions in the area.

Early booking is recommended as demand is expected to be high.

Further details of the day, the tutorial content and speaker biographies
together with an online booking form are available at:

http://www.desire.org/html/subjectgateways/workshops/metadataworkshop.html


****Want to know more about ALT-C?****

This workshop is being held immediately before ALT-C99 see:

http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/alt-c99/

BOOK NOW for the conference as the early-bird rate ends on FRIDAY 31 JULY.

THEME: The Learning Technology Life-Cycle: 'Design, Practice, Outcomes'
DATE:  21 to 23 September 1999
WHERE: University of Bristol, UK
KEYNOTES: Barry Harper - award-winning interactive software producer
from the University of Wollongong, Australia
Tom Reeves - leading American authority on evaluation of learning
technologies
Carmel McNaught - senior staff developer from the Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology 
NEW IDEAS - More opportunities to listen and discuss in small groups in
our Interactive Presentations; and for the first time at ALT-C, there
will be subject-specific strands on Day 2; 
SOCIALS: Conference reception in the eighteenth century Roman Baths and
Pump Room at complex at Bath followed by dinner in the elegant Assembly
Rooms.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: HE/FE teachers; staff developers/IT trainers; senior
managers with teaching/ICT brief; IT project managers;
usability/evaluation experts; LIS staff; software developers/website
designers.

FOR MORE INFORMATION and the ONLINE BOOKING FORM go to
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/alt-c99/


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Tracey Hooper - Project Manager (DESIRE) 
Institute for Learning and Research Technology, 
University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, BRISTOL, BS8 1HH, 
UK.  Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7197,Fax: +44(0)117 928 7112 
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