Hello MCG,
I know there has been substantial (and brilliantly useful) discussion in the MCG list of embedding and managing metadata in image file headers, IPTC, XMP, social media stripping, and many other areas.
I'm interested in learning what collecting organisations are doing in real terms when they digitise their image or indeed text collections, both in-house and outsourced.
At the BFI we have approached this at various points on the spectrum in various projects, from most ambitious (digitisation supplier will embed descriptive metadata in XMP / IPTC, and we will auto-create CMS records from those, by watching a folder and automating extraction / posting to db) to least (generic creator and generic rights statement only).
I'm interested in developing a model which accepts both extremes, and defines a minimum set and an ideal set, for use in digitisation project scoping and planning. I'd like to benchmark what people are doing in real projects, from ambitious to barely there, and refer to the obvious documents, and come up with a framework within which to select, per project, based on budget, timescale, nature of the collection being digitised, access or preservation as driver, etc
I've digested the obvious documentation, eg the FADGI Still Image Working Group stuff:
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-core_embedded_metadata.html
and
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/digitize-core_embedded_metadata.html
And TNA:
https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/digitisation-at-the-national-archives.pdf
But I'd love to hear what you're doing within this spectrum of all-known-data-goes-in, to creator-and-rights-only. Do you bounce btween these extremes, based on budget? Do you sit somewhere in the middle as a consistent policy?
Apologies if this has happened very neatly somewhere and I have missed it - please redirect me?!
All the best,
Stephen
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