•Cultural
–Enhances communication
–Involves many in furthering the library’s mission
–Treats metadata as a shared resource
•Functional
–Enables easy location of metadata tools created
throughout the library
–Minimizes the creation of redundant components
–Increases productivity among metadata and IT
practitioners
–Accelerates development of new metadata
applications
–Improves likelihood that new mappings and transformation
tools will be easily
integrated into the existing metadata environment.