Government of Australia ENG The Australian Government produced a report on "Management of Government Information as a National Strategic Resource". In the chapter titled "THE ARCHITECTURE OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION RESOURCES" is the following Recommendation: "In order to achieve increased visibility of government information holdings, approve in principle the establishment of an Australian Government Information Locator System (AusGILS) and request the Australian Archives to develop an implementation plan. The Technical Group of the Information Management Steering Committee also recommends that agencies adopt the use of "AusGILS" so as to provide, and manage over time, consistent government descriptions of agency resource holdings. Such descriptions (Government Locator Records) would be made available on agency Web pages and searchable by the public. The Technical Group also concluded that "AusGILS" could be utilized to describe individual government documents or items, though the group is not prescriptive on this matter and offers advise on suitable metadata alternatives for agency use. Australia Dagmar Parer Australia dagmarp@aa.gov.au list0619 USGS ENG 19990731