The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is offering a five day workshop entitled METS: The Basics and Beyond. To be held in partnership with Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich and Rick Beaubien of the METS Editorial Board, this workshop is scheduled from January 18-22, 2010 in Boston. It is aimed at people who work in digital and physical libraries. Participants can gain knowledge and skills for organising the many and disparate component parts of individual digital resources.
The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is a data encoding and transmission specification expressed in XML. It provides a means for conveying the structural, descriptive, and administrative metadata necessary for both the management of digital objects within a repository and the exchange of such objects between repositories or between repositories and their users. This common digital object format was designed to facilitate both the exchange of digital materials among institutions and vendors, and the shared development of supporting tools.
Although continuous, this workshop consists of three modules, any of which may be taken independently. The first module assumes some familiarity with XML, but no prior experience with METS. The second and third modules build on and deepen a basic understanding of METS. More details on the workshop modules is available online at http://www.arl.org/stats/statsevents/METS-workshop.shtml.
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