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> The infrastructure for supporting metadata of non-html Web objects is > not now in place, but will be within the year. It is PICS-ng. Is PICS-SE any relation to PICS-ng, or is this an offshoot? Underlying this question in my mind is the rapidly increasing corpus of PDF documents in the scholarly system, notably in (mostly parallel) electronic journals. If we can't get people to move very soon to writing down the metadata as the documents are deployed (even if the metadata can't be deployed), we will have a large retro-conversion problem. I have started to press in the eLib programme for DC-based metadata in parts of what we do, and I'd like to be able to see an approach which would allow us to create and preferably deploy it now, preferably in a form which can be easily transformed (mechanically) into whatever the standard matures to be. At first glance the metadata for PDF files could be in associated HTML files, in PICS-SE records, or in the underlying SGML where that's appropriate (will the DTDs cope with that?). -- Chris Rusbridge Programme Director, Electronic Libraries Programme The Library, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK Phone 01203 524979 Fax 01203 524981 Email [log in to unmask]