[apologies for cross-postings] CIMI and CHIN are pleased to announce a 1 day workshop on the FFFF,0000,0000ABCs 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***