LISNews: Librarian News

The AMeGA Final Report was released yesterday. Here is a description of the project from its executive summary:

The Automatic Metadata Generation Applications (AMeGA) project, which was
conducted in conjunction with the Bibliographic Control of Web Resources: A Library of
Congress Action Plan, addresses the
challenge of metadata generation for digital resources. The work underlying the AMeGA project
was guided by the following three goals:

• To evaluate current automatic metadata generation functionalities supported by
  content creation software and automatic metadata generation applications; and review
  automatic metadata generation functionalities supported by integrated library systems
  (ILSs).
• To survey metadata experts to determine which aspects of metadata generation are
  most amenable to automation.
• To compile a final report of recommended functionalities for automatic metadata
  generation applications.