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On July 1, 1997, the Research Libraries Group hosted an invitational
"summit" meeting on metadata issues.  This meeting was an outgrowth
of the work of the Task Force on Meta Access of the Association of
Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS).  The
participants represented a variety of research information projects,
standards groups and related communities.

The goal of the Summit was to identify metadata issues that have
special relevance for the research community in order to identify,
if possible, a common action agenda.  Much of the discussion
centered on the potential role of the Dublin Core elements as a
mechanism for discovery of information resources available via the
Internet, but which are not static html-Web pages.  A full report on
the meeting is available on the RLG Web site:

                 http://www.rlg.org/meta9707.html



 Willy Cromwell-Kessler
 Research Libraries Group
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