CLDs as metadata
- Metadata
- “Machine understandable information about web resources or other things.”(Berners-Lee, 1997)
- Structured data about resources that can be used to help support a wide range of operations
- A collection is a type of resource
- CLDs are metadata records
- Used by
- human agents (owner, researcher, 3rd party)
- software agents (e.g. aggregators, portals, brokers)