Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums

Per Matthew, 3/16: "The article [i.e., Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums] provides an overview of some recent activities and trends in libraries, archives, and museums. Its focuses on the standards infrastructure in the 3 communities and looks to content standards like Cataloging Cultural Objects to play a pivotal role in integrating access across collecting institutions. It is worth a look." To which Steven Yearl responded, "This should be qualified by US or, at least, North American communities. With one of Yale's stated primary strategic objectives being 'globalisation', we might all do well to consider our leadership role in the _global_ research community. To this end I shall offer, somewhat parenthetically to Matthew's forwarding of this otherwise very interesting piece, a European--particularly Gallic-- perspective.
Abridged and filtered through an American Archivist's eyes, the recent comments on Google's digitisation efforts by Jean-Noël Jeanneney of the Bibliothèque nationale de France ... Of course, one could do far worse than read his, Jeanneney's, thesis in entirety."