數位圖書館/博物館已成為圖書資訊學界與其他相關領域重要的研究課題。本文將說明數位圖書館/博物館相關的概念，簡述國家科學委員會「數位博物館」專案計量判，討論數位圖書館/博物館與詮釋資料的關係，探討詮釋資料的維譯、管理與交換，以及如何由使用者特性與藏品性質進行詮釋資料的研究與制訂，進一步說明中文詮釋資料發展與制訂的現況，最後並探討未來的展望。

Digital Libraries and Museums (DL/M) have become one of the important research issues of Library and Information Science as well as other related fields.τbis paper descnbes the bastmncepts of DL/M and bnefly Introduces the development of j Taiwan Digital Museum Project. Based on the features of various collections, we discuss how to maintain, to manage and to exchange metadata, especially from the view-point of users. We propose the draft of metadata, MICI (Metactata Interchange for Chinese Information) , developed by ROSS (Resources Organizlltion and Searching Specification) team. Finally, current problems and future development of metadata will be touched.