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The objective of this survey, conducted in July and August 2007 among 18 RLG partner institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom, was to gain a baseline understanding of current descriptive metadata practices and dependencies. The report summarizes the descriptive practices used across a variety of applications, the data structure and data content standards followed, the audiences for the metadata created, and some organization patterns.

RLG Programs' interpretation of the results and the issues we identified to pursue in future projects is available at
http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2007-03.pdf, and the data supplement with charts, graphs, and the survey instrument is available at http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2007-04.pdf.