Presentations from the NISO's "Metadata Practices on the Cutting Edge"
Workshop, richly populated by experts from across the DLF and beyond,
are now available:
http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/MD-2004_agenda.html 


"Metadata Practice and Direction: a Community Perspective." 
        Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC

"RSS: Really Simple Syndication - A Publisher's Perspective."
        Howard Ratner, Nature Publishing Group

"New Developments Relating to Linking Metadata."
        Chuck Koscher, CrossRef

"Metadata Standards for Managing and Discovering Image Collections."
        Oya Rieger, Cornell University Libraries

"Addressing Metadata in the MPEG-21 and PDF-A ISO Standards."
        William G. LeFurgy, Library of Congress

"Using MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) for Rich Descriptive
Data."
        Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress

"The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)."
        Morgan Cundiff, Library of Congress

"ONIX for Serials and the NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party for the
Exchange of Serials Subscription Information."
        Nathan Robertson, Johns Hopkins University Libraries

"Metadata Interaction, Integration, and Interoperability." 
        William Moen, University of North Texas

"DSpace SIMILE: using semantic web technology for metadata support."
        MacKenzie Smith, MIT Libraries

"Beyond Parsing: Metadata Quality Management."
        Bruce Rosenblum, Inera, Inc.