Hi All
I found your recent debate regarding secondary metadata fascinating
particularly as I have to investigate it as part of a literature review for
the JORUM+ project.
I would be grateful if anybody could confirm this for me but strictly
speaking secondary metadata is "used to describe Features of the description
rather than the resource" and therefore is another term for 'metametadata',
is this correct? So examples of secondary metadata would be creator and date
of creation of the metadata record? With that in mind, the issue of
subjective comments about resources being termed as secondary metadata is
incorrect and should fields like the annotation field be included as a
metadata field as this is undoubtedly going to lead to confusion on this
subject?
Kind Regards
Steve
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