The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics and Assessment Program and the Digital Library Federation, a programme of the Council on Library and Information Resources, have announced the third, five-day 'METS Workshop: The Basics and Beyond', to be held with Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich of the METS Editorial Board. The workshop is aimed at people who work in digital and physical libraries and would like to gain knowledge and skills for organising the many and disparate component parts of individual digital resources. The workshop will be held from January 10-14, 2011, at San Diego, California.
Although continuous, this hands-on workshop consists of three modules, any of which may be taken independently. The first module offers a thorough introduction to METS, including an overview of all of its high level features. The second module delves deeply into the heart of METS - the flexible mechanisms it provides for encoding, organising, and representing digital content of various kinds and for different purposes. It will also look at tools that can facilitate the implementation of METS and how their use may affect encoding decisions. The third and final module explores strategies for implementing METS in a production environment. It provides participants with the opportunity to strategise about the implementation of METS within their own environments. Several in-depth case studies from institutions using METS in production environments will be presented.
Interested parties may register for the event at http://www.formstack.com/forms/?1011057-lHXuYlPAxR.
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