The Warwick Workshop was convened in 1996 after a year of experimentation with the Dublin Core . The Warwick Framework is a set of design principles that have helped guide the development of the Dublin Core since then. The Warwick Framework provides an architecture for the interchange of distinct metadata packages. That architecture has two fundamental components, containers and packages.
Containers are the unit for aggregating metadata packages.
It allows individual metadata packages to be created and maintained by separate communities of expertise. The Warwick Framework allows the designers of individual metadata sets to focus on their specific requirements, without concern for generalization to unbounded scope. It separates management of and responsibility for specific metadata sets among their respective communities of expertise. Although there is general consensus that the Warwick Framework is a sensible approach to handling metadata, at this time it has not been implemented. See the full report on the Warwick Framework.