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NISO Metadata Workshop May 20, 2004
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cynthia Hodgson)
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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:18:39 -0500
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Save the Date: Thursday, May 20, 2004
NISO Workshop: Metadata Practices on the Cutting Edge
Information professionals: Get the guidance you need on
the growing variety of metadata standards and explore
issues of interoperability. The NISO one-day workshop,
Metadata Practices on the Cutting Edge, will be held in
Washington, DC on Thursday, May 20, 2004. Topics in the
spotlight--from both theoretical and practical
perspectives--include: metadata syndication, digital
archiving, metadata quality assurance, the Joint Working
Party initiative on serials and subscription metadata,
METS, MODS, and more.
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC, will keynote. Confirmed speakers
include: Howard Ratner, Nature Publishing Group; Rebecca
Guenther, Library of Congress; Chuck Koscher, CrossRef;
Evan Owens, JSTOR; Morgan Cundiff, Library of Congress,
MacKenzie Smith, MIT Libraries, and Bruce Rosenblum,
Inera, Inc.
In addition, Jenny Walker, ExLibris, a member of the NISO
Standards Development Committee will discuss plans to
support metadata interoperability through the development
and coordination of standards and will share information
about NISO's strategic planning initiative.
Please check the NISO website (www.niso.org) after March
12 for program and registration details.
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Cynthia Hodgson
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 300
Bethesda, MD 20814-5248
T. 301-654-2512, F. 301-654-1721
www.niso.org
