Meet You at the Information Intersection!

For an organization to successfully integrate its operations into an efficient and effective information ecology, a common document metadata standard must be agreed upon by major document workflow stakeholders. Fortunately much work has already been conducted here.

The Dublin Core

In 1994, at the Second International World Wide Web Conference in Chicago, a serendipitous discussion on semantics and the difficulty of finding resources on the Web took place. This inspired the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to hold a joint workshop in Dublin, Ohio, to discuss metadata semantics.