Metadata Workshop, Luxembourg - 1-2 December 1997

Workshop Report - 10. Recommendations for further work

The workshop identified a number of actions that could be taken to promote the use of Dublin Core, including the following:

There needs to be clarity about the version control and the maintenance of Dublin Core. The Dublin Core group, addressed through the mailing list META2, will be asked to give a clear statement about this.
Further pilot projects should be started to further develop experience, test out the issues and help realise a critical mass of Dublin Core metadata. The European Commission and national bodies like National Libraries might have a role to play by encouraging the provision of Dublin Core metadata in documents, e.g. in project deliverables and electronic documents in the national deposit.
The interest and requirements existing in Europe warrant the establishment of a European group of implementers discussing the practical issues of implementing metadata in general and Dublin Core in particular. The Luxembourg Workshops, such as this December 1997 one, and a second one scheduled for mid-1998, could develop into a regular series.
The liaison with other groups concerned with metadata, such as the CEN/ISSS working group on Metadata for Multimedia Information (MMI), should be established to ensure applicability and interoperability of metadata as widely as possible and cover the needs of a wide range of communities.