Something akin to this in the primary field might help. Users will also require more added value. Technology can and will offer such advances as automatic indexing, cross referencing and cross linkages but the primary product will have to be standardised if it is to benefit. A standard format would help cross searching. Publishers might benefit from looking at the quality controls laid down for some of their customers, and authors.
Culture collections have stringent regulations on storage, recording and distribution.
Again standards are needed and the STM market would benefit - especially when factual and literature databases are involved, from common agreements and standards. A working party on this, perhaps drawn from the BTSF, would be an ideal solution. It should establish WHY standards are required and ensure that they are useful to all concerned - users and producers. Links will add quality anyway. Navigation through databases is an ideal way of checking that data is sound and in agreement with other data.