Monday, March 7, 2005
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

The Semantic Web immediately forces us to confront two questions - what is it and how do we get there from here? This tutorial concentrates on the latter question. The Dublin Core has become the de-facto standard for metadata in academic, government, and commercial sectors. This wide base of basic metadata will, of necessity, be the foundation for the early generations of semantic web applications. What opportunities and challenges will that foundation present? The tutorial will guide the participant through the major questions:

• What is the Dublin Core?
• What kinds of Dublin Core metadata should you expect to see?
• What integration challenges will that present?
• What extensions to the Dublin Core exist?
• What best practices should you keep in mind when helping set your organization's metadata direction?
• How will the base of metadata for the Semantic Web evolve?

Joseph Busch is a Past President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and a member of the Board of Directors of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. He was a principal of the start-up company Metacode that was sold to Interwoven.

Ron Daniel is an expert on XML industry standards and an active member of the XML and metadata standardization communities. He has chaired the PRISM working group, has been a member of the RDF working groups, and has co-edited numerous specifications including PRISM, XPointer, three IETF RFCs, and the first two Dublin Core reports.