Is MetaData dead? or is the sky just falling?

From a msg posted to the LITA listserv.

From: Brian Elkins
To: lita-l@ala.org
Date: Monday - January 31, 2005 5:59 AM
Subject: [LITA-L:1006] Impact of Google
quoting Joseph Esposito to liblicense-l on Jan 30

"...what exactly is Google planning to do? How will this fit into emerging metadata schemes? Will Google become the 'universal interface' for all research? Is metasearch dead? Will enabling data harvesting by Google become a priority for publishers, and if so, how wiil this affect the libraries that license content?..."