Folks,
The ACM DL '97 conference is in Philadelphia on August 24-26. D-Lib is
organizing a series of panels/working sessions on hot topics in digital
libraries.
One panel will be on, "Issues in metadata". It would be an opportunity to
present the current state of the Dublin Core and Warwick Framework, and
discuss issues such as eye of newt.
At present I am looking for volunteers -- members of the Meta2 group who
plan to attend the conference and would like to join this panel. If you
are interested, let me know.
Bill
P.S. On eye of newt. I suspect that most of us agree that a single version
on DC can not satisfy the two requirements that Carl mentions: (a) "a
simple metadata scheme for [simple-minded] web authors", (b) "simpler (than
MARC) but machine interoperable cataloging scheme". Perhaps we should have
two engineering tracks. In any event, I hope that (a) will not be
forgotten.
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