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Renovating Descriptive & Organizing Practices

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Objective: Change the economics of metadata production at research institutions by setting new expectations for investment, modeling the attendant workflows, and prototyping appropriate tools. Adapt descriptive practice to economic realities, user expectations, and the requirements of network-level services.

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