Dear Metaphiles
Under our financial management legislation we are required to regularly value our collections. We are currently developing a valuation methodology for a collection that consists of digital moving image artwork. This digital content is dependent on the interplay of a legal, technical and descriptive (metadata) infrastructure without which any form of service delivery is impossible.
Measurable value resides in three areas:
(a) the market value of the current legal agreements (licences/rights) that permit access and availability
(b) the net present value of the collection of manifestations that are technically available for use through encoding, transcoding
(c) the material value of the metadata generated for the purposes of content management, identification, access, discovery and interpretation
The question is how do we arrive at a value for our metadata through a rationale that will withstand audit. For quality assurance reasons, we have a arrived at a three stage/level application of metadata.
* Level one is a minimal tracking record
* Level two could be described as conforming to a complete Dublin Core record
* Level three has the bells and whistles that include visual metadata in the form of clips and stills etc
Is there anyone out there who is prepared to share their experience in valuing metadata?
(Apologies for cross posting)
Best wishes
Simon
Dr Simon Pockley - Collections Manager
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