"DLMA represents the standards-setting representatives of over 530 of the leading digital publishing, educational technology and e-learning organizations worldwide via its stakeholder organizations. Collectively the DLMA stakeholder organizations have over 60 years tenure as successful standards-setting organizations. Our mission is to coordinate metadata standards adoption and development in support of digital learning and education across the educational technology, publishing, web and library communities via existing metadata frameworks while encouraging innovation and the evolution to next generation metadata frameworks."