TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– The purpose of this Guest Editorial is to introduce the papers in this special issue.Design/methodology/approach– A brief summary of the main contributions of the papers included in this issue is provided.Findings– The idea of this special issue was an outcome of the organization of activities of the First Online Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'05).Originality/value– The emphasis on “semantics” addresses the importance of the languages in which metadata records are created, their adequacy for the functions to be enabled and their modular design to adapt to present and future requirements. VL - 30 IS - 3 SN - 1468-4527 DO - 10.1108/14684520610675753 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/14684520610675753 AU - Sicilia Miguel‐Angel ED - Miguel‐Angel Sicilia PY - 2006 Y1 - 2006/01/01 TI - Metadata and semantics research T2 - Online Information Review PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 213 EP - 216 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -