The second stage includes a group of digitization, description, preparation, and preservation actions, which all lead to the process of ingesting our digital material into a Digital Archiving System. These actions are separate but go hand in hand, as they are interrelated and need to be well-coordinated. Digitization of any physical material needs to be done in sync with the decisions on how these objects will be described (i.e., which information, or metadata, about them needs to be captured in the digitization process). It is similar with born-digital material, as its metadata needs to be selected as well.