METS News and Announcements
METS Board Solicitation and METS Board Meeting at DLF (April 23, 2008)
I have a couple of announcements regarding the METS Editorial Board that I'd
like to share with the METS community.
First, we once again find ourselves interested in soliciting people to join
the Board as two of our long time Board members have either resigned from
the Board, or moved into a different capacity, and we would like to find
other talented, committed people to join the Board in their stead.
Merrilee Proffitt, one of the original METS Board members who has been
invaluable to the METS community and to the Board by her in-depth knowledge
of TEI, EAD and other library standards as well as her consistent and
thoughtful contributions to Board discussions will change being an active
member of the Board to an ex-officio position as a liaison to the OCLC
organization. We are fortunate that both Merrilee and OCLC remain committed
to the use of METS within the OCLC digital library ventures, and will
continue to support us in a less active, but very aware capacity.
Cecilia Preston has also been a long term METS Board member and has recently
contributed significantly to the community by coordinating the writing and
editing of the extensive METS Primer and Reference Manual which can be now
found on the METS website. Cecilia's determined, yet cheerful shepherding
of this project as well as her level-headed contributions of good business
and standards practice will be missed by the Board. Fortunately, we suspect
she will be available for consultation if needed.
These two vacancies provide us both the opportunity and the challenge of
finding Board members who have the skills, experience, time, and commitment
to join the Board in its work monitoring and furthering the use of the METS
schema in the digital library world. Criteria and expectations for Board
members can be found on the METS website:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-boardcriteria.html. As well, the
Mission Statement of the METS Board can be found at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-board.html
while the Procedures for filling the vacancy can be found at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-boardprocedures.html.
The deadline for applications will be June 16, 2008. Questions and
applications about the Board can be addressed to any Board member (see
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-board.html) , or directly to me at:
nhoebel@stanford.edu.
Secondly, we have another face to face Board meeting scheduled at the
conclusion of the Digital Library Federation meeting next week on Wedneday
afternoon, 30 March, and Thursday morning, 1 April. The meetings are open
to the METS public and a draft agenda can be found on the METS wiki at:
http://www.socialtext.net/mim-2006/index.cgi?mets_board. We hope to see
you there!
Nancy
Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich
Metadata Coordinator
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford University Libraries / Academic InfoResources
Stanford, CA 94305-8408
nhoebel@stanford.edu
voice: 650-725-6843
fax: 650-725-0547
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