Abstract
At this workshop, attendees will examine and discuss:
- The value of using metadata as a aid to reliable retrieval both within individual Web sites and across distributed sites (the pervasive Web).
- What the barriers to effective use of metadata are and how they can be overcome.
- Who should be responsible for creating and maintaining metadata – resource creators; web-masters; librarians?
- Whether embedding and harvesting or a central database is the best approach.