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| | Dublin Core Metadata in the RLG Information Landscape |
 | | Erway described some of the responsive RLG member projects to create digital content, and articulate and promulgate digital standards or "best practices." She also discussed the Arches infrastructure[4], RLG's approach to meeting many of the challenges to information management posed by the Internet environment, such as persistent naming, document authentication, licensing, document display, and security. |
 | | RLG continues to work on a wide variety of digital initiatives[5], with the goal of providing access to digital content through a Web-based "umbrella interface" that will draw upon all the components of Arches functionality and allow nearly seamless integration of diverse RLG databases as well as a wealth of remote resources. |
 | | As RLG pursues its digital initiatives it is keeping the Dublin Core elements in focus, closely monitoring applications such as that proposed in the CIMI Metadata Test Bed[17], which will evaluate the use of the Dublin Core for museum data. |
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