Metadata Workshop,
Luxembourg - 1-2 December 1997

Outline

Much of the current work with 'metadata' is geared towards servicing the needs of experts WITHIN individual disciplinary communities. The problems faced in such work are multiplied when attempts are made to encompass the requirements of expert and non-expert across a range of loosely related disciplines, such as those comprising the arts and humanities.

This paper reports upon the results of a workshop series jointly conceived by the UK's Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN), in which users' requirements for resource discovery metadata were evaluated, and compared with the developing Dublin Core initiative. The lessons learned by AHDS in actually implementing these findings within a working spatially, conceptually and disciplinarily distributed system will also be addressed.

Presentation

The powerpoint presentation given at the seminar is available as:

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