Access to relevant information is one of the most important requirements of all human activities. This need has been recognized and has resulted in the continuing effort to describe and organize information so as to facilitate it's expected discovery and access. With the recent surge in the use of the Internet as a conduit for information dissemination, there is an urgent need to meet the needs of an unprecedented number of information users. Since there would be a significant number of "naive" users amongst them, the need for organizing information and its subsequent discovery must be done with improved functionality and efficiency in terms of 'ease of search', 'time to search' and 'cost to search'. These tasks require the bringing together of professionals from many disciplines of knowledge.
The Metadata Workshop was held between March 1 and March 3, 1995 in Dublin, OH.