| Preservation
metadata (2) |
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| • | Metadata fulfil
various roles, e.g.: |
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| – | "… to find,
manage, control, understand or |
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| preserve …
information over time" (Cunningham, |
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| – | Descriptive
information; technical information |
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| about formats and
structure; information about |
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| provenance and
context; administrative |
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| information, e.g.
for rights management |
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| – | Current schemas
either very complex or only |
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| provide a basic
framework (sometimes both!) |
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| – | Perception that
different strategies and objects |
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| will need
different metadata |
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| DC-2003, Seattle, USA, 29
September 2003 |