EC Metadata Workshop

DGXIII/E-4 organised a concertation meeting and workshop for projects and other interested people involved in developing and applying metadata for the classification of content relevant to libraries, museums and archives. The libraries sector took this initiative because of the original and innovative work carried out in the area instigated by the libraries community worldwide (such as the Dublin Core).

A first workshop of 1½ days was held in Luxembourg on 1 and 2 December, and contained a tutorial, project presentations and breakout sessions discussing various aspects. The specific objectives were to establish a platform for co-ordination between projects concerned with metadata in a broad sense, to raise awareness of developments in the standards arena and to stimulate feedback from the projects to the standards. We plan to hold a second workshop six months later to contain an update from the standards and reports from projects leading into discussion on solution scenarios.

Workshop Report

• Executive summary
• Full report

Tutorial

Organised by the UK Office for Library and Information Networking. Topics covered included:

• The metadata landscape
• Review of Dublin Core
• Data creation and harvesting
• Interoperability and the Future of metadata.

[Outline] [Full Tutorial]

Project Presentations

• Hyperborea: Nordic Metadata and other Nordic Dublin Core initiatives
  
  
• Metadata in CIMI and Aquarelle - to be supplied
  
  
• Towards interoperability: enabling resource discovery across the arts and humanities

Breakout Sessions

• Metadata creation and maintenance
  
  
• Harvesting
  
  
• Retrieval

Supporting material

For general information about Metadata:  http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/