Following Weibel's and Erway's comments, there was a general discussion of Dublin Core and metadata in general, followed by lunch discussion groups. Metadata is how we get the user to the resource. DC is the surface layer of metadata, a sort of lowest common denominator, some of which will translate to the common ground, some of which will not. DC probably works best on electronic resources and focusing there may be a good starting point. Traditions within scholarly communities vary and must be respected in data and framework.
Granularity is important.
General search agents will need to be responsive to metadata but, just like libraries, selected universes of resources will continue to be important. Library catalogs generally have not mixed data at different levels, i.e., description of book and other material, table of contents data, indexes, and full text. Metadata should provide added value over web browsers. Group 1 centered on standards. Metadata will be a rough consensus rather than being like traditional library, etc. standards.