November's Metadata Working Group forum will be presented by Peter McCracken, Director of Research at Serials Solutions:

"In 2002 I ranted about the quality of content providers' metadata in front of hundreds of conference attendees at the Charleston Conference's plenary session on 'Aggregator Gripes.' My talk focused on challenges of accurate metadata from content vendors, and the problems we saw as a metadata management company. Having just returned from the same conference five years later, I'll look at what I said in 2002, see if my rant had any measurable impact, and compare those comments with the state of the industry as I see it today."