Conclusion
Site/collection autonomy has a price but seems socially unavoidable. Must continue work on interoperability
Distributed object technology is very promising: software engineering possible; CORBA in Netscape
Metadata requires concerted community effort to bring out the best for digital libraries
Want productive blend of WWW and traditional library culture
URL of paper: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu
Look for report SIDL-WP-1998-0096