2008 Wilshire Award for Metadata Best Practices

Co-Sponsored by TDAN.com

  Wilshire Conferences and TDAN.com are pleased to announce that submissions are invited for the 2008 "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/MD2008/submission_requirements
   * Nominations will be received until May 31, 2008. The first round of judging will be completed and the
     finalists will go through a second round of assessment. Results are expected by mid-July 2008.

   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
	Bonnie O'Neil Senior Technical Consultant Project Performance Corporation			Doug Stacey Senior Manager Allstate Insurance
	David Loshin President Knowledge Integrity, Inc.			Ron Klein Sr. Information Management Consultant BMO Financial Group

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