Karen Coyle helps the Open Library team navigate the twisty paths of the forest that is library metadata. A little while ago, we were lucky to have her present her view of its origins at the Internet Archive. I thoroughly enjoyed her presentation and I thought someone else might so I've rewritten my notes from the session as an exciting love-and-death-style account of librarianship over the years.
R. Loverance. CULTURAL HERITAGE on line: the challenge of accessibility and preservation. International Conference Firenze, 14th-16th December 2006, стр. 232--239. Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, (2006)