METADATA: The Foundations of Resource Description for Digital Libraries/Museums

There are several organizations in Taiwan area which possess a lot of rare books, historical remains, artifacts and precious documents. However, the access of these collections seems unfortunately to be limited only to the minority of related researchers and scholars. This is against the overwhelming trend of information resources sharing. The most important thing is to distribute these valuable collections via the powerful WWW which will render these collections available to users all over the world in a more efficient way.