On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Debbie Campbell wrote:
> Renato and I would be very happy to receive comments on our proposal, so
> please fire away,
Only the comments I've made on this in the past: "Administrative"
metadata, in the U.S. at least, is one of three basic metadata
food groups which may be needed for a *resource* (and that resource may
or may not itself be metadata):
Intellectual/Descriptive
Administrative (may include rights, management, and technical
specification and provenance info, among other things)
Structural
While these three categories are fuzzy and lack sharp boundaries, they
have proven to be useful constructs and are widely used.
There is administrative metadata associated with resources like
documents or image files -- for example, capture information,
migration schedule, billing responsibility, and so on.
The term should *not* be co-opted just for "metadata about metadata."
--Robin
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