Translations:Digitization, Preservation and Ingest/178/en

Metadata is data—information about data, about the digital archival content. It is stored in a structured form suitable for software processing. Metadata is essentially equal to archival descriptions of digital content. Indeed, the descriptions of our content that we made in the previous stage will now, in the Digital Archiving System, become metadata, thereby adding to other types of metadata such as system-generated technical metadata or metadata on an item’s access history. Metadata is therefore necessary for the goals of long-term preservation and access, as it allows us to maintain the integrity, quality, and usability of content.