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Free at the SAA Annual Meeting: A 4-Hour Seminar on Current Met adata Initiatives



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Free Seminar on Current Metadata Initiatives Offered at SAA Annual Meeting
in Birmingham

The SAA Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama will present a free  four-hour
update on current metadata initiatives.  The update is organized and
presented by the Research Libraries Group (RLG).  Taking place from 1:00 -
5:00 pm on Wednesday, August 21, at the conference hotel, Sheraton
Birmingham,  participants will learn about and discuss the implications of a
number of new metadata initiatives that have special relevance to the
archival community.

Daniel Pitti (University of Virginia) will lead off with a report on the
Encoded Archival Context (EAC).  EAC is an ongoing initiative within the
international archival community to design and implement a prototype
standard for encoding descriptions of record creators.  Martin Halbert from
Emory University will give an update on the Open Archives Initiative, an
enabling framework for the development of innovative, networked information
services.  RLG Program Officer Tony Gill will speak about the CIDOC
Conceptual Reference Model (CRM).  Although the CRM originally developed for
museum applications, it is also highly relevant to libraries and archives,
and could potentially serve as a "semantic bridge," helping memory
institutions share knowledge with one another.  Merrilee Proffitt, also from
RLG, will give an overview of METS, a generalized metadata framework.
Finally, Anne Kenney from Cornell University will provide commentary on the
recently issued RLG/OCLC report, "Attributes of a Trusted Digital
Repository."

There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.  Join us for an
exciting tour of the emerging metadata landscape.  More information can be
found at www.rlg.org/primary/metadata_update02.html  Please RSVP to Fran
Devlin at fed@notes.rlg.org

More information on the SAA Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Alabama August
19-25 can be found at http://www.archivists.org/conference/birm2002prog.asp
and you can register at
http://www.archivists.org/conference/birm2002-regforms.pdf

Susan E. Fox, CAE
Executive Director
Society of American Archivists
527 S. Wells St., 5th Floor
Chicago, IL  60607
312-922-0140
fax:  312-347-1452
sfox@archivists.org
www.archivists.org

The mission of the Society of American Archivists is to serve the
educational and informational needs of our members and to provide leadership
to ensure the identification, preservation, and use of the nation's historic
record.

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