Translations:Digitization, Preservation and Ingest/179/en

Data documentation provides information about the context of our data, our digital archival content. It is often provided in a textual or other human-readable form. Data documentation in fact supplements metadata and provides information that enables others to use the archival content. For example, if we conduct a survey of victims and are preserving their filled-in questionnaires as our digital archival data, we should also preserve related data documentation (e.g., a document detailing the survey design and methodology). Given that data documentation is also “data about data,” it could also be seen as a specific type of metadata, one which provides context and is recorded in human-friendly format.