Preservation metadata is item level information that describes the context and structure of a digital object. It provides background details pertaining...

PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) is the de facto digital preservation metadata standard. Digital preservation metadata defines...

specialized metadata (such as technical, administrative and rights metadata) in addition to standard descriptive metadata. The preservation of born-digital...

Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message...

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a protocol developed for harvesting metadata descriptions of records in an archive...

the care and preservation of the materials by the archival institution, archivists look to standards appropriate to various kinds of metadata for different...

or to preserve those with antique status for use as showpieces. Bus preservation groups aim to purchase buses of various eras to restore them to their...

A metadata standard is a requirement which is intended to establish a common understanding of the meaning or semantics of the data, to ensure correct and...

emergencies, digitizing items, writing relevant metadata, and increasing accessibility. Preservation, in this definition, is practiced in a library or...

Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES), is a set of fifteen main metadata items for describing digital or physical resources. It was the first metadata standard...