With all due apologies to the Bard, the questions of whether to add metadata to unstructured content and how much effort is really justified to do so have been raised with increasing frequency and vigor in the last year. These issues and more were explored last year at the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) 2003 Workshop. While some participants argued for a drastic reduction in metadata efforts or at least rethinking those efforts, other participants offered new ideas of how to create valuable metadata and how to generate value from metadata.
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