Metadata is an important tool in addressing the problem of
resource discovery on the Web because it provides a standard way
of describing resources. The convergence of resource description
standards and development of enabling infrastructure promise to
improve the discovery and management of information for
Canadians.
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The purpose of the Forum is to bring together participants from
Canadian metadata communities, both government and non-government,
such as libraries, archives, museums, industry, educational
institutions and academia Our goal is to cover a wide spectrum of
metadata applications such as the use of geospatial and
statistical metadata, metadata for multimedia objects,
accessibility issues related to metadata.
The forum came and went last month (no one tells me
anything...) ...sigh, last year ...
but there's lots of interesting stuff on the website.
The forum came and went last month (no one tells me anything...) ...sigh, last year ... but there's lots of interesting stuff on the website.