----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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 [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask]