The schedule represents my best approximation of the time requirements and as activity sequence,
it can be adjusted to situations and to needs.
The Expended Time Requirement
To achieve Metadata Interoperability at the repository level, the following tasks are required:
To conduct an integrated search engines among Harvard, MIT and UIUC libraries, and to achieve practically interoperability among three universities, task 6 and 7 are strongly recommended. To conduct the experiment, the time requirement should be expanded.