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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

Sept 2, 2009

Present:

  • Patsy
  • Tom
  • Rob
  • Ann Marie

For our next meeting:

Poke around among the following institutions (and/or others).  Put notes and attachments on https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/LIBMETADATA/Research+-+Peer+Institution :

  • University of Virginia
  • UNT - Ann Marie
  • Cornell
  • UIUC
  • California Digital Library (CDL)
  • University of Indiana
  • University of Michigan - Ann Marie
  • Texas Digical Library (TDL)

Poke around among the following 

1. structural metadata standards:

  • METS
  • OAI-ORE
  • MPEG21
  • RSS/ATOM

2. rights metadata standards:

  • Dublin Core
  • SWAP
  • METS Rights
  • PREMIS Rights

3. preservation metadata standards:

  • PREMIS - Ann Marie

4. provenance matadata standards:

  • PREMIS (event)
  • ABC HArmony
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