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We're pleased to announce four 90 minute tutorial sessions at DC-2003 covering a broad mix of subject areas: - Tutorial 1 will focus on practical syntax issues, providing guidance on how to encode DC metadata in (X)HTML, XML and RDF. - Tutorial 2 will consider some of the issues around building and using 'application profiles' - the practice of adapting, constraining or extending Dublin Core for specific uses or applications. The tutorial will include summaries of the current state of the DC-Government and DC-Libraries application profiles. - Tutorial 3 will look beyond DCMI at the work of the Creative Commons, an initiative that offers a suite of "some rights reserved" licenses backed by RDF/XML metadata, for Digital Rights Description (DRD). This tutorial will cover practical and technical aspects of creating, publishing, verifying and searching Dublin Core metadata for DRD deployed on the web in HTML, RSS, and beyond, e.g., on Peer-2-Peer environments. - Staying a little outside the DCMI fold, tutorial 4 will look at FAST, a faceted adaptation of LCSH with a simplified syntax which retains the very rich vocabulary of LCSH while making it easier to understand and apply. FAST consists of eight distinct facets: Topical, Geographic (Place), Personal Name, Corporate Name, Form (Type, Genre), Chronological (Time, Period), Title, and Meeting Name. This tutorial will review the development of FAST and look at how it can be applied in the Dublin Core environment. More information at: http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/tutorials.html