The Changing Landscape of Networked Resource Description

The first column in this series appeared not long after the OCLC/ NCSA Metadata Workshop, an effort to bring together experts from various stakeholder communities from the library, computer, and text‐encoding communities. The objective of this workshop was to forge a consensus surrounding a lightweight, core description record that would be useful for locating Internet resources, but that could be created relatively inexpensively by authors or others who were not necessarily schooled in the nuances of conventional cataloging.