DCMI 2003 Pre-Conference Workshop:
Metadata Primer
   Sunday, September 28, 2003
Sponsor: The Information School of the University of Washington Venue: Mary Gates Hall, Room 430, University of Washington, Seattle,
   WA, USA   [ Online Campus Map ]
Workshop Fee: $100.00 USD (Workshop participation limited to 40)
   Online Registration (DC-2003 Conference & Workshop)

In this workshop, you will learn–

• what metadata is and what metadata does
• metadata's role in the lifecycle of digital objects and representations
• how to make metadata human and machine readable
• how to make your metadata understandable to others in the networked environment
• how discourse and practice communities, including libraries, can customize metadata to fit their needs and still facilitate interoperability

This all day workshop will introduce you to the basics of metadata. In this primer you will learn metadata's role in resource discovery, management, and interoperability. We will cover the basics questions. “What is metadata?” “What can metadata do?” “How does XML figure into this?” These questions and more will be covered through interactive lectures and hands on computer lab-based mini-projects. The primer will be team-taught by members of the community of the Information School of the University of Washington and other select instructors who actively work with metadata.

Plan to stay on for the Dublin Core 2003 Conference & Workshop at which researchers, system implementers, metadata practitioners, administrators, and others wanting to engage in a dialog to advance the discourse and practice of metadata research and applicationson share information related to implementing metadata in libraries, large organizations, personalization and portals, and metadata creation tools.