Special Session: Metadata for the Project Management Community
Session Organizers:
Gail Hodge, Information International Associates, Inc. (moderator)
Dr. Robert Allen, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Project management organizes resources, both financial and human into activities and tasks that achieve goals and objectives. The principles and tools of project management span every sector and discipline, generating information that is valuable in knowledge management initiatives. This special session of brief presentations and general discussion focuses on metadata for project documentation, software interoperability and extraction of lessons learned. Attendees are encouraged to bring relevant metadata element sets to share.

Papers:
Metadata for Project Resources: Development of the Goddard Core
     (Dr. Robert Allen, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies)
European Activities
     (Barbara Richards, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
STEP and Dublin Core: Metadata in the Engineering Environment
     (David Briggs, The Boeing Co.)