To be honest, I suggested this 'idea' largely in reaction to the 'consistency' theme in the earlier 'ideas'.
If I were worried about consistency of metadata, I would worry less about standards, guidelines, etc, and explore the idea of some robust network-level metadata creation tools. These would have a double advantage: support consistency and support aggregation.
For an example, maybe from a domain on the margins of this discussion, see my note on Calames, the French resource for archival finding aids.
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