METADATA - A CURRENT VIEW OF PRACTICE AND ISSUES

This paper describes emerging metadata practice and standards. It give s an overview of the environments in which metadata is used, before fo cusing on metadata for information resources. It outlines an approxima te typology of approaches and explores different strands of metadata a ctivity. It discusses trends in format development, metadata managemen t, and use of search and retrieve protocols. It concludes by discussin g some features of future deployment of metadata in support of network resource discovery.