Meet You at the Information Intersection!

At the “OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop” in March 1995, more than 50 people discussed how a core set of semantics for Web-based resources would be useful for categorizing the Web for easier search and retrieval. They dubbed the result “Dublin Core metadata” (dublincore.org).

Dublin Core has become an integral metadata set for most Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS). The EDMS is increasingly being recognized as the document heart of an organization. Through the application of a common document metadata standard, regardless of where the document is within its life cycle, it is possible for disparate information management activities to work cohesively with each other.