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Metadata Workshop II

April 1 - 3, 1996
University of Warwick, UK

The Second Invitational Metadata Workshop is intended to broaden the scope of the effort begun in March of 1995 at the OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop. The first meeting convened a mix of computer science, text markup, and library professionals who achieved consensus concerning a simple resource description record that may serve as a foundation for unifying various network resource description models.

Substantial interest in this approach has developed in digital library efforts around the world, including the US Digital Library Initiative projects, JISC's Electronic Libraries Programme in the UK, an emerging digital library initiative under the auspices of the ERCIM consortium of European National Laboratories, and in related efforts by the national libraries of Australia and New Zealand.

The second workshop is intended to explore deployment strategies that will improve prospects for semantic interoperability on a global basis and across discipline boundaries.

The first workshop targeted the semantic content of a simple description record. The focus of the second workshop will be to build upon this foundation to identify implementation strategies that will serve two main purposes:

• promote semantic interoperability across disciplines and languages, and
• define mechanisms for extensibility to support richer description and linkages to other description models.

When: April 1 - 3, 1996

Location: University of Warwick, UK

Venue: The workshop will take place from 1st to 3rd April 1996 inclusive at Radcliffe House, University of Warwick. Designed in 1986, at the edge of the University of Warwick campus, Radcliffe House blends the comfort and services of a quality hotel with modern conference facilities. The Centre has a large lounge and bar area and there is an exercise room. Delegates may also use the university sports facilities and will find excellent walks in the campus grounds.

The campus is situated in Warwickshire countryside approximately 5 miles from Coventry, 8 miles from Warwick, 12 miles from Birmingham and 25 miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. Birmingham International Airport is about 12 miles from the campus and the train journey from Birmingham New Street station to Coventry takes approximately 30 minutes. The journey time from London Euston to Coventry station is approximately 75 minutes. Taxis from Coventry station (which is the nearest for the campus) take about 15 minutes.

If delegates wish to extend their stay after the conference, suitable hotels will be found nearby in Warwick, Coventry or Stratford-upon Avon.