[Ref-Links] MICI: Metadata Information Clearinghouse (Interactive)

[dsidman@wiley.com]

To:		People interested in Metadata projects, standards, and 
other initiatives
  
From:		Association of American Publishers (AAP)
  
Date:		July 12, 1999
  
The Metadata Subcommittee of the AAP Enabling Technologies Committee is 
announcing the launch of a new web site:  MICI - "Metadata Information 
Clearinghouse (Interactive)."
  
This site was initiated by the Metadata Subcommittee to serve as a 
clearinghouse of information about Metadata projects, standards, and 
initiatives worldwide.  It allows the reader to look up projects from 
whatever perspective the reader may have:  e.g. by "Type of Application" 
(Sales, Rights Management, Archive/Reuse, Content Management), by "Type of 
Publisher" (Books, Journals, etc.), by "Subject" (Chemistry, Accounting, 
Earth Science), etc. - and of course, by "Project Name."
  
MICI is also designed to be interactive.  You can post questions or comments 
about the projects listed, and conduct threaded discussions with other 
readers.  If you know of any project which is not yet in the database but 
should be, please create a record for it yourself.  (We will make best 
efforts to edit these for quality assurance purposes.)  If you are involved 
in any of the projects already listed and feel that the existing description 
should be changed in any way, please post a comment in response to that 
project description.  If you have any general suggestions about the website 
itself, please post a response to the placeholder "project" entitled 
"Feedback to this Website."
  
MICI can be accessed via http://www.publishers.org/mici.htm or via  
http://www.wileynpt.com/mici.  I hope you will take a moment to look through 
this database, and to pass this announcement on to others you think might be 
interested. 
  
Sincerely,
  
  
David Sidman
Chair, AAP Metadata Subcommittee
  



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