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| | Metadata: a current view of practice and issues |
 | | The Federal Geographic Data Committee has identified four functional requirements which have guided metadata development: discovery or location (to find what is available), fitness for use (does a data set meet a particular need), access (data needed to acquire a set of data), and transfer (data needed to process and use a set of data). |
 | | There are good management and organisational reasons for continuing this specialisation but these institutions are faced with the challenge of providing unified access to their collections. |
 | | Such repositories may be managed by information producing organisations themselves, universities for example, by traditional and 'new' commercial publishers, or by other organisations (the Arts and Humanities Data Service in the UK, for example, or industrial and other research organisations, archives, image libraries, and so on). |
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