Introduction to the Workshop

Paul Gherman, University Librarian, Vanderbilt
Terry Noreault, Director of the Office of Research, OCLC Inc.
Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, CNI

Plenary Session #1: Background and Context for the Workshop
Plenary Chair: Paul Evan Peters

Howard Besser, Visiting Associate Professor,
School of Information Management & Systems,
University of California, Berkeley.

Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist,
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

Clifford Lynch, Director, Library Automation,
University of California, Office of the President

Plenary Session #2: The Diversity of the Problem: Four Perspectives
Plenary Chair: Paul Evan Peters

David Bearman, President,
Archives & Museum Informatics

Mary Laarsgard, Alexandria Digital Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.

Earl Henderson, Deputy Director
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
National Library of Medicine

Eric Childress, Senior Product Support Specialist,
OCLC, Inc.

Breakout Groups (See Breakout Document For Group Assignments)

As with other types of data, no monolithic element set will serve the needs of all users, but establishing a set of descriptors common to a wide range of image subtypes will promote interoperability and consistency of description across disciplines.

The focus of the first breakout disccussions is to identify a candidate set of elements to enhance resource discovery that is common to a broad variety of image types as the basis for an Image-Core element set.

Plenary Session # 3
Plenary Chair: Stuart Weibel

Breakout leaders will summarize discussions, followed by open discussion.

Free Time

Workshop organizers and small group leaders convene for debriefing

Dinner

Reception and Dinner in the atrium, Kilgour Building