Using descriptive information or metadata

3. How would you like to see institutional media collections use descriptive information or metadata?

a. to handle content in a more efficient manner (for example, information about a media object might be entered just once and then distributed to and used by a variety of applications) 32

b. to grant easy accessibility to the material (for example, through a sophisticated search and retrieval application) 40

c. to tag material with original source or copyright information 27

d. to help in the automated creation of Finding Aids 29

e. to assist in linking references from items in your collection to related items in other collections 29

f. do not know yet 7

To allow easy browsing to cut down on the the need to review entire documents and/or productions. - Baker

I do in fact think that source/copyright tagging is of crucial importance in terms of data integrity. - Carli

...bit of a blue sky question here. - Graham

We don't need copyright information as much as identifying the source and knowing if we have approval for public release, or if it's from a stock house, what terms for usage have been set. - Hamal

I would hope to link the visual resources collection to our larger state wide library database system. The faculty are being pushed to teach as many classes as possible by using the Web. - Hehman

There are many layers of metadata that are desirable and necessary for managing all aspects of the digital file, and we need to work out every single one of them. - Turner

For once, "all of the above" seems the right answer! Although we are exploring all of the suggested options, we also expect to find other ways of making use of the descriptive metadata as we move to increasing automation of archiving and retreival, and increasing integration of internal and external systems. - Webb