Message from the program co-chairs

Abstract

Over the past few years, however, issues related to the broader context for Dublin Core have come to the fore, such as XML and, since 1997, the Resource Description Framework, now part of a Semantic Web Activity; harvesting approaches such as Open Archives Initiative; domainspecific metadata standards and their relation to a “core”; and the constructs and policies necessary for managing namespaces and “application profiles” for automatic processing by machines.