Translations:Digitization, Preservation and Ingest/91/en

Most of the metadata we need to preserve is linked to the digital archival files they describe, created, and captured by the software tools we use to digitize, manage, and archive the data. This includes basic metadata (e.g., date of creation/digitization) as well as very technical types of metadata, such as those on the validity or integrity of digital files. The software tools can, therefore, allow us to capture the metadata. Concrete technical solutions in relation to different types of metadata being captured and preserved are discussed further in the manual. However, our main concern is selecting which metadata types we want and need to record and preserve in our digital archival files.