Helping People Find What They Want: Implementing the Dublin Core in Museums


Places and Dates:

March 29-30, 2000
Vancouver, BC, Canada
hosted by: Canadian Heritage Information Network

April 27-28, 2000
Amstelveen, the Netherlands
hosted by: ADLIB Information Systems

May 31-June 1, 2000
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
hosted by: Walker Art Center


This two day workshop focuses on information access and management issues in museums and cultural heritage organizations through the use of the CIMI recommendations for the Dublin Core metadata standard. This workshop is designed for museum and cultural heritage professionals, information managers, systems staff, and administrators looking for ways to better manage information resources and make them available to the broad World Wide Web audience. Technical expertise is not required.

Concepts covered by this workshop include:
- Integrated Information Management
- Metadata
- Syntax
- Structure
- Semantics
- Consistent Vocabulary
- Resource Discovery

To find out more about the workshop and to register, click here
http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute/index.html


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Angela Spinazze
Programs Manager
CIMI Consortium
http://www.cimi.org/

+1.312.944.6820 (voice)
+1.312.944.6821 (fax)
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