Current Status
1994 Meeting Report (Kirchner et al.) included minimum metadata standards for data exchange
Standards were used by Future of Long-term Ecological Data (FLED) committee of Ecological Society of America as one of several models in formulating “Non-geospatial metadata for the ecological sciences” (Michener et al., 1997, Ecological Applications 7: 330-342)
Prototyping system for cross-site metadata searching