Need a better way to coherently organize things. Lester Buck presented an overview of the IEEE Mass Storage Reference Model. Would like input. He indicated that this would be a possible means to start a metadata project with government funding of some sorts. The need for strong typing of files.
Primary data grows very large.
How to store and maintain them is a problem. Uses Empress database because it has a good BLOB ability. They are having IO and network bottleneck problems. Looking for standardization of metadata and terminology. Metadata generated by user.