Policy Statement
York University Libraries require thorough, well-structured metadata in order to preserve the content, relationships, activities and logical structure of an object.
Implementation
- Descriptive metadata
- This metadata is descriptive about an object, and used for discovery. This metadata is generally based on Qualified Dublin Core, and requires human labour in collaboration stakeholders and partners.
- Examples can include:
- Title
- Creator(s)
- Date(s)
- Description
- Subjects
- Genre
- Identifier(s)
- Rights
- Technical metadata
- This metadata is generally technical in the characteristics of an object, and is generally machine generated on ingest.
- Examples can include:
- Resolution
- Colour space
- Scanning software
- MIME type
- Audio/video codec
- Preservation metadata
- This metadata generally tracks the history of the object in a given preservation platform, and is generally machine generated upon specific events such as ingest, and object modifications.
- Examples can include:
- Account information on creation & modification
- Creation & modification timestamps
- Fixity information
- Access restrictions
Reviewed: March 21, 2022