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Modelling Intellectual Processes: The FRBR - CRM Harmonization Martin Doerr, ICS-FORTH Patrick LeBoeuf, Bibliothèque National de France Even though the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set is well accepted as a general solution, it fails to describe more complex information assets and their cross-correlation. These include data from political history, history of arts and sciences, archaeology or observational data from natural history or geosciences. Therefore IFLA and ICOM are merging their core ontologies, an important step towards semantic interoperability of metadata schemata across all archives, libraries and museums. It opens new prospects for advanced global information integration services. The first draft of the combined model is published in June 2006. 1 Introduction Semantic interoperability of Digital Libraries, Library- and Collection Management Systems requires compatibility of both the employed Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS; eg classification systems, terminologies, authority files, gazetteers) and of the employed data and metadata schemata. Currently, the notion and scope of Digital Libraries covers not only traditional publications, but also scientific and cultural heritage data. The difference between traditional publication in text form and structured data in form of databases is more and more blurring, with databases containing texts in XML form, texts and multimedia data being described by structured metadata records, and Natural Language Processing techniques extracting structured information from free texts. The grand vision is to see all these data integrated so that users are effectively supported in searching for and analyzing data across all domains. Even though the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set is well accepted as a general solution, it fails to describe more complex information assets and the