Questions for the panel
1) Why give Internet resources different treatment in cataloguing? (eg why use metadata such as Dublin Core rather than MARC or ISBD-ER and why catalogue resources into something separate from the library OPAC?)
2) What are the key strengths and weaknesses of the information gateway approach?
3) How far should there be a national strategy and is there one in your country?
4) What lies in the future? Is creating national information gateways a sound foundation for future developments?
(eg in the light of forthcoming technologies /
metadata formats and possible international