The Evolving Metadata Architecture for the World Wide Web: Bringing Together the Semantics, Structure and Syntax of Resource Description
http://www.dl.ulis.ac.jp/ISDL97/proceedings/weibe.html

Weibel, Stuart
ISRDP in Digital Libraries
1997

Abstract:

The Dublin Core is currently the best-developed candidate for a simple resource description model for electronic resources on the Web. It represents the results of a three year process of consensus-building through a series of focussed, invitational workshops involving librarians, digital library researchers, and various content specialists from many countries.