METS Opening Day West (U.S.) Draft Program

April 8 -9, 2004, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Thursday, April 8th

METS Overview

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.       Registration, Coffee & Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.       Welcoming Remarks
   Kevin Roebuck, Sun Microsystems

9:15 - 10:15 a.m.       Introduction to METS
   Jerome McDonough, New York University

10:15 - 10:30 a.m.       Break

10:30 - 11:30 noon       Building METS by Hand
   Jerome McDonough, New York University
      I. Build a structural map.
      II. Build a file group for master image files.
      III. Link structural map and file group.
      IV. Add a Dublin Core Record for whole work.
      V. Add single technical metadata record for master files.

11:30 - 12:00 noon       Introduction to METS Profiles
   Morgan Cundiff, Library of Congress

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.       Lunch Break (lunch provided)

1:30 - 3:00 p.m       Case Studies In Implementing METS
   Rick Beaubien, University of California, Berkeley
         METS at UCB: Themes in the Implementation of METS
   Fae Hamilton & Bruce Washburn, Research Libraries Group

3:00 - 3:15 p.m.       Break

3:15 - 4:45 p.m.       Case Studies In Implementing METS
   Jerry Persons, Stanford University Libraries
   MacKenzie Smith, MIT / DSpace

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.       Reception
   Stanford Faculty Club

Friday, April 9th

Developer's Forum

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.       Registration, Coffee & Continental Breakfast (separate registration for developer's forum)

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.       Technical Breakout Sessions

Plan is to have at least one presenter and moderator for each breakout session.

    2. METS Creation / Ingestion tools and tool development
           - Examples of working tools
           - Shared Development
      Giulia Hill, University of California, Berkeley
      Claus Gravenhorst, Compact Computer Systems, GmbH, creators of docWORKS/METAe
         docWORKS/METAe: Automated Conversion Of Printed Documents
         Into Fully Tagged METS Objects
      Mike Sanderson, Research Libraries Group
      Moderator: Rick Beaubien, University of California, Berkeley
         METS at UC Berkeley: Generating METS Objects

    3. METS Dissemination tools & tool development / TEI & METS
           - Examples of working dissemination tools
           - Shared tool development
           - Examples of TEI & METS workflow
           - TEI & METS Problems and potential solutions
      Corey Keith, Library of Congress
      Jay Goodkin, OCLC Digital Archive
         OCLC’s Digital Archive - Disseminating with METS
      Kirk Hastings, California Digital Library
         TEI & METS at the California Digital Library
      Moderator, Merrilee Proffitt, RLG

    4. Applying Extension Schemas to METS
           - Status, development and examples of workflow for Descriptive schemas
                (i.e., Dublin Core, MODS, MARC)
           - Status, development and examples of workflow for Administrative schemas
                (i.e., Technical, Rights, Digital Provenance / Preservation)
           - Need for others, new? (e.g., IEEE-LOM)
      Paul Fogel, California Digital Library
      Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Stanford University Libraries
      Susan Dahl, University of Alberta

11:00 - 11:30 a.m.       Break

11:30 - 1:00 pm       Report back from Technical Breakout Sessions by Moderators & General Discussion Session
      Moderator: Jerry McDonough, New York University

    Report: METS Creation / Ingestion tools and tool development
      Moderator: Rick Beaubien, University of California, Berkeley
         METS Creation Tools Comparison

1:00 pm - 2 pm       Lunch provided

END OF PROGRAM

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