Calhoun - What does "Next Gen" Mean to Me?

Aspects of cataloging and metadata environment
1. Coordinated global, collective and local metadata management

Reliable local effort at the regional and global environment
The same data with many different views of the data


Data Sharing, Syndication, Synchronization, linking

Outward integration, exposure, and linking of collections (e.g. Google Books, WorldCat, other aggregators, national library consortia)

(back and forth between services)

"Metadata Switch"

Data needs to be located on many different places on the web. "globally coordinated system"