Issues covered at the conference include metadata formats, metadata mining and extraction, and digital library metadata issues. This site, provided by the IEEE Computer Society, contains the proceedings from that conference. Central to the site are the full text of 26 papers presented at the conference as well as 14 papers from panel and poster sessions.
Topics range from geospacial metadata to metadata modeling.
A list of authors and a copy of the conference program are also available. The first IEEE proceedings, held in 1996, can be obtained at the second site. Copyright Susan Calcari, 1994-1997. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the Scout Report provided the copyright notice and this paragraph is preserved on all copies. The Government has certain rights in this material.