Spring 2002

This Workshop Is For You Learn about collecting metadata from many servers, then aggregate it and making it available to many new services. The Northern New York Library Network will present OCLC’s "Steering by Standards - A New Harvest: Revealing Hidden Resources with the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol" videoconference from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on March 26, 2002 in our Conference Room. Universities and other organizations can disclose the existence of their informational assets - e-prints, technical reports, learning materials, image collections, etc. - in a consistent way. With this new metadata approach, light can be shown on the "dark" or "hidden" web, which is not visible to today’s search engines. The teleconference will address questions such as: How will the mechanism work to reveal the existence of valuable institutional materials? What impact will the initiative have on user scholarship, learning, and personal fulfillment by connecting users with previously hidden resources? How will reference professionals and other information seekers harness the power of metadata harvesting? The key speaker will be Herbert Van de Sompel, director, e-Strategy & Programmes, The British Library. The Open Archives Initiative, guided by a team at Cornell and sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information and the Digital Library Federation, is overseeing creation of the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol. To register or to find out more about this event, contact the NNYLN at 315-265-1119, toll- free at 877-833-1674, or email cont-ed@northnet.org The deadline for registration is March 22.