[apologies for cross-postings]

CIMI and CHIN are pleased to announce a 1 day workshop on the ABCs of
Metadata to be held in Ottawa, Canada May 3 1999.

This workshop is specially focused on metadata issues facing libraries,
archives, museums, digital library projects and other cultural information
organizations.

Topics to be covered include:

* Metadata: Promise and Problems
* The Dublin Core Initiative
* Expressing metadata in HTML,XML,& RDF
* Tools for creating and using metadata
* Metadata in musems, libraries, and archives

Presenters:

        Carl Lagoze, Cornell University Digital Library Scientist
        John Perkins, CIMI Executive Director
        Lyn Elliot Sherwood, Director General CHIN
        Stu Weibel, Director Dublin Core Initiative


The full program announcement and registration information can be found at:

http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute

***Space is limited *** Simultaneous French/English translation is
available***