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Yes, but it should also be designed from the beginning so the metadata goes the whole spectrum from basic bibliographic data to xml tags for individual words within the texts (like the automatic CIDOC mapping I mentioned the other day that Martin Doerr had done at some point) Too often "minimum standards" have been defined that have been OK for one community (bibliographic: Bibtex, MARC, etc.) but which don't suit the needs of others, when they want to expand; look at Dublin Core: it's a dead end, basically; if you want to do something with it, you basically have to rewrite it... -----Original Message----- So may be in the first instance the standards should be about the minimum of cataloguing / indexing that should be assoicated to any grey literature produced by toutsde contractors. This could then be captured within the HER and searched as part of any process.