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The Central Digital Repository is comprised of digital objects produced by
the Electronic Centers, Information Communities, the Digital Library Production
Service, and commercial vendors. These objects are expressed as METS encoded
text documents and can contain information marked up in elements from external
standards as necessary. In this system we assume that there are two distinct
categories of information regarding the objects that can be indexed and used
for descriptive and administrative (including technical) purposes. These locally-defined
element sets are collectively referred to as UVa Metadata,
and are XML-encoded and have DTDs. Structural metadata about collections of
digital objects are provided by separate higher-level digital objects. Also
in use is the General Descriptive Modeling Scheme (GDMS), a formal information
structure to construct descriptive models for collections of digital resources
developed by the UVa Library.
Metadata
Steering Group (MSG)
Charge of the group, minutes, email list, policy reports & recommendations,
and archives of previous metadata planning groups
UVa
Metadata Descriptive Elements (UVa DescMeta)
Elements describing the intellectual content of the object, including the
minimal requirements for ingest into the UVa Digital Library
UVa
Metadata Administrative Elements (UVa AdminMeta)
Elements describing the provenance (history), source, rights, and technical
specifications (format and internal structure) of each datastream in the
digital object, and for the object as a whole
GDMS
General Descriptive Modeling Scheme (GDMS), a formal information structure
to construct descriptive models for collections of digital resources developed
by the UVa Library
Mappings
Mappings of international standards to UVa Metadata and to GDMS
Community Digitization Guidelines: Describing Your Resources
Guide to creating metadata for your digital collections -- especially if you intend for the Library to ultimately take ownership of your resources and/or commit to digital preservation. These guidelines are part of a full report (University of Virginia Community Digitization Guidelines) which includes standards for scanning images, marking up texts, creating audio, video files, statistical data files, etc., all
in line with the UVa Library's current practice
Decisions and Best Practices
Collection of decisions and best practices endorsed by the MSG, including
content standards and workflow
Readings & Resources
Collection of readings and links for understanding metadata, including markup and content standards
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