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Metadane a proces ciągłej digitalizacji obiektów bibiotecznych
Metadata vs. Permanent Digitization of Library Objects

Author(s): Agnieszka Wróbel, Grzegorz Bednarek
Subject(s): Library and Information Science
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: ALTO; Digital library; DCMES; Digitization; EXIF; Descriptive metadata; Administative and technical metadata; Structural metadata; METS; MIX; MODS; PREMIS; Universal interior metadata; XMP; e-bUW digi

Summary/Abstract: Discussion on metadata in Polish digital libraries focused mostly on descriptive metadata. The article presents benefits of application of different metadata standards in a digital library. This enables collection of numerous, different information of a digital objects (administrative and technical metadata), which have not been collected in Polish libraries so far. Moreover, the authors prove, that different methods of metadata collection (saving in a digital object, saving in an another file) complement each other, and offer an additional protection against data loss.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 1 (101)
  • Page Range: 84-104
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish