Metadata Genres Core Element Discussion 8 July 2009

Present:

• Patsy
• Tom
• Rob

Notetaker: Rob

What are Metadata Genres:

• Preservation
• Rights
• Structural
• Provenance

Objective of this Discussion:

A core set of elements for each genre.

Structural Metadata

Purposes of structural metadata

• File management
• Content Management or Collection Management
• Domain Modeling 

Structural Metadata Requirements

• Identification of the Atomic Unit(AU) of a domain.  The atomic unit is a standalone entity.  The structural metadata may need to indicate the standalone status of any entity it describes.
• Reference to the metadata for an AU
• Reference to all files that comprise AU

Possible Structural Metadata Requirements

• Relation of Atomic Unit to other things in the domain

Different methods of recording Structural Metadata

• In the metadata for the AU (via relation metadata)
• In a separate map (e.g. METS)

Brainstorm kinds of relationships

One way to categorize relationships

• part --> whole (hierarchical)
• whole --> part (hierarchical)
• part --> part (peer)
• networks

kinds  of peer relationships

• version
• sequence
• other peer relationships?

kinds of hierarchical relationships

• book -> chapter -> page
• FRBR
• courseware
• other chains of aggregation levels in different domains (from largest to smallest)?

kinds of network relationships

• websites
• relationships between agents
• other web like structures?

Hierarchical Metadata Requirements

• Define Atomic Unit (Smallest Describable Unit)
• smallest needs to know largest
• largest needs to know about all the smallest
• In between relationships not core

Peer Metadata Requirements

• Atomic Unit must have one peer relationships

rwolfe todo

• Look up types of peer, hierarchical, and network relationships that we might encounter