Describes emerging metadata practice and standards. Gives an overview of the environments in which metadata is used, before focusing on metadata for information resources. Outlines an approximate typology of approaches and explores different strands of metadata activity. Discusses trends in format development, metadata management, and use of…

This report, informed by discussion of content activities at the 1999 IMesh Workshop, considers implications for subject based gateways of co-operation regarding coverage policy, creation of metadata, and provision of searching and browsing across services. Other possibilities for co-operation include working more closely with information…