The workshop is organised within the MESMUSES
project (http://cweb.inria.fr) funded by the European Commission
inside the Fifth Framework Programme of Research and Technological
Development (1998-2002) and aims at presenting the semantic
web methodology applied to the scientific and cultural museology
to the managers of scientific museums and to the people working
in the Cultural Heritage field, in general. Moreover, the workshop
is an occasion of discussion with other specialists involved in
the this type of projects, in Europe and abroad, about the results
and prospects of the semantic web methodology for scientific
and cultural institutions.