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Embedded Metadata
Metadata plays a critical role in the management and use of digital content. Comprehensive and consistent metadata allows users to find the content they are seeking, to identify, understand, and differentiate the content, and to know whether restrictions apply to its use. Technical metadata can provide information on the technical characteristics of the digital object (pixel dimensions, file encoding and compression, etc.),as well as some information on how it was created. Technical information increases interoperability of the content and provides a basis for evaluating the viability of a digital object or its suitability for reformatting.
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Categories and Objectives
This subgroup has drafted objectives for the digital reformatting of printed matter, documents and manuscripts, pictorial and fine art content. Why are reformatted copies of such content being made? What uses will these copies support? Do these considerations vary from one content category to another? As its work proceeded, the subgroup identified a number of content categories, defined in terms of the "physical" items found in many library and archive collections. Each category is associated with reformatting objectives, i.e., the objectives of the organizations that carry out the digitizing and, equally important, the objectives of the endusers who will consult or use the images in their work. These objectives are expressed as use cases: they name an actor (in a certain role) and an action that represents a use of the image. The specifications to be recommended by the Still Images Working Group are intended to guide the production of images that achieve the stated objectives.
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Last Updated: 12/10/2008