Carl Lagoze, Senior Researcher in Information Science at Cornell University, will discuss the Harmony Project. The goal of the Harmony Project is to investigate a number of the key issues in describing complex multimedia resources in digital libraries through:

• Collaborating with metadata communities to develop and refine developing metadata standards that describe multimedia components.
• Investigating a conceptual model for interoperability among community-specific metadata vocabularies.
• Investigating mechanisms for expressing such a conceptual model, including technologies currently under development in the W3C (XML, RDF, and their associated schema mechanisms).
• Developing mechanisms to map between community-specific vocabularies using such a conceptual model.