The Final Report of the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Appications) Project is now available. Of particular interest is a set of "Recommended Functionalities for Automatic Metadata Generation Applications" resulting from an analysis of existing content-creation sofware and an online survey of metadata experts that took place in mid-2004.
Peter Suber has posted an interesting entry in his Open Access News blog titled Is Google's ambition deterring other digitization projects?.