I posted here early in the winter on Duke's plans to develop a software 
tool to support metadata creation.  Our project has moved forward with 
the hiring of two programmers and an intensive phase of analysis and 
design.  We want to share our progress as we go, so I've composed a post 
with some of our design documents at

http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/02/13/on-the-trident-project-part-1-architecture/

As always we welcome feedback from the code4lib community.  Regrettably, 
we'll not send anyone to the conference next week, but I thought I would 
use this very nearly calm moment  to report on our progress and invite 
discussion.

Best,

Will
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Will Sexton
Metadata Analyst / Programmer
Duke University Libraries