2007 Wilshire Award for Metadata Best Practices

BMO FINANCIAL GROUP ANNOUNCED AS WINNER!

Co-Sponsored by TDAN.com

   Wilshire Conferences and TDAN.com are pleased to announce that submissions have been received and are currently being evaluated for the 2007 "Wilshire Award" honoring best practices in metadata management. The award is given to the practitioners within a customer organization (ie. corporation, government agency or non-profit, as opposed to a product or service vendor) in recognition of the business value and technical excellence they have achieved in the design and implementation of an outstanding metadata program.

   Each submission is judged on the following criteria:

1. Sponsorship, planning and framework
2. Business requirements and meta-data selection/taxonomy
3. Architecture-integration and change management
4. People-program team and meta-data users
5. Measurements-program and success stories

   * Complete details and nomination requirements are set forth in the "Call for Submissions" (CFS) available at       http://www.wilshireconferences.com/submission_requirements
   * Nominations were received by September 22, 2006. The first round of judging has been completed and the finalists are now going through a second round of assessment. Results are expected by mid-December 2006.

   This year's judges are:

	Chairman of Judges Panel Robert S. Seiner, President, KIK Consulting & Education Services and Publisher, TDAN.com			Karen Lopez Principal Consultant InfoAdvisors / ITBoards.com
	Brian Winters Chief Information Architect Intel Corporation			Peter Aiken President, Data Blueprint and Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
	R. Todd Stephens Director of Metadata Services Group, BellSouth			Bonnie O'Neil Senior Technical Consultant Project Performance Corporation
	Doug Stacey Senior Manager Allstate Insurance			David Loshin President Knowledge Integrity, Inc.

   Questions may be directed to Tony Shaw of Wilshire Conferences at 310-477-4475 ext 102 or at    tony@wilshireconferences.com