Describing your digital resources
Posted by Antony Theobald on Friday 08 January 2010 at 10:56am
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We have just published our completely updated advice documents on metadata.
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Metadata is essentially structured textual information that describes something about the creation, content or context of an individual file or collection of many digital files.
If you have a collection of digital resources - images, video or audio files - you and the users of those files will need metadata to describe, organise and find them.
There are eight documents in all - if you are new to metadata, we would recommend starting with An Introduction to Metadata.
- An Introduction to Metadata
- Metadata and Digital Images
- Metadata and Audio Resources
- Metadata and Digital Video
- Metadata Standards and Interoperability
- Putting Things in Order: a Directory of Metadata Schemas and Related Standards
- Controlling your Language: a Directory of Metadata Vocabularies
- Approaches to Describing Images
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