Many discipline-specific and community-specific metadata standards have evolved to meet the challenge of supporting data management and discovery as well as capturing and communicating information to users. Islandora’s system is based on an understanding that the complexity of content-types and metadata standards, and the scarcity of metadata creation, management, and validation tools pose barriers to effective information management.
The The following chapter will outline the role of descriptive metadata in the Islandora system. If you are using Islandora, it is presumed you have a strong understanding of metadata standards that you will be working with, and the role of descriptive metadata in organizing information assets.
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Islandora also preserves the use of Fedora’s underlying administrative metadata (such as audit streams that indicate what has happened to an object and when) and relationship metadata (codified in the RELS-EXT streams of objects). Some Islandora Solution Packs also utilize the EXIFtool to extract technical metadata from objects and store it in a separate datastream. |
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