An invitational metadata workshop organized at Dublin in 1995 and treated as the birthplace of contemporary metadata, was sponsored by

A. National Centre for Super Computing Application (NCSA)

B. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)

C. Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC)

D. International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

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Key Points

An invitational metadata workshop organized in Dublin in 1995 and treated as the birthplace of contemporary metadata, was a collaborative effort by OCLC and the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA).
Its primary aim was to address the challenge of providing metadata for a wide range of network-accessible materials.
In this context, "metadata" refers to data about data, serving as a form of bibliographic description.
Initially, the goal was to identify a limited data element set that could be universally applied to identify network-accessible resources.
However, due to the diverse needs of stakeholders, the focus shifted to creating a simple data element set that information providers, such as authors or publishers, could use to describe their own resources easily.
The Dublin Core metadata element set emerged from this effort, consisting of thirteen optional and repeatable elements grouped into three categories:
- access points,
- information for identification, and
- information to relate objects to others.
It was designed to be syntax-independent, allowing it to be mapped to various encoding formats, such as MARC or SGML.