AMeGA Final Report Released

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.