Embedded Metadata and the Long Now
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The document discusses the role of embedded metadata in digital preservation, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for long-term access to digital images. It emphasizes the need for standards and practices in preservation metadata and addresses issues relevant to curators and administrators managing image collections. The content also outlines a five-stage framework for digital preservation management, from awareness to inter-institutional standards.
Embedded Metadata and the Long Now
- 1. Embedded Metadata and the Long Now Kari R. Smith History of Art, VRC Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 2. Setting the Stage Preservation Metadata Context Implementation Issues Scenarios Embedded Metadata working group and External Collaboration
- 3. Preservation Metadata Preservation = Long Term Access Digital preservation = long term access that’s technology driven Most have an Opt-In strategy for Digital Preservation Technical MD Administrative MD Descriptive MD Where does Embedded Metadata fit into all this?
- 4. EM & PM Good time to be thinking / researching about this Learning about metadata mgmt in relation to Images We don’t yet have preservation metadata standards
- 5. Implementation Issues Intermediary curators Local decisions informed by good practice Minimal metadata set that is doable What is the Value of the images in relation to long term access?
- 6. Students in an architecture class want to donate to the library’s digital collection the image they captured during a semester long project to document building decay in the city. Which images are by which student? Location of the buildings shown in the images? For which course were these created? When were the image files created – not the date they were manipulated?
- 7. Faculty member is retiring. Hands over a HDD or points you to file space with thousands of digital image files “for the collection”. What can you Do? Are these files that you already produced for the collection? Are they licensed image files? Are they original digital photography? Are they master digital image files or generational? What are the rights for preservation / usage and who has the rights?
- 8. Coordination outside of VRA Society of American Archivists Research Forum poster presentation 2009 Research Forum platform presentation 2010 Digital Preservation Management Workshops Awareness + Implications
- 9. 5 Stages for DPM Stage 1 = Awareness (potential for EM to be valuable for preservation Stage 2 = Project Stage 3 = Recommended practice Stage 4 = Common practice Stage 5 = Inter-institutional / Standards Five Stages courtesy of the Digital Preservation Management Workshop (2003-2010)