A (very) brief history
1994: 2nd WWW conference, Chicago
1995: NCSA/OCLC Metadata w’shop, Dublin, Ohio
- The “Dublin Core” 13-element set of metadata semantics for Web resources
1996: DC-2 Warwick workshop
- “Warwick Framework”: metadata is modular
1996: DC-3 Dublin, Ohio workshop
- expand 13 elements to 15 (less text-centric?)
1997-: RDF: formal expression of W.F.
2000: DCMI recommends qualifiers