Used for discovery and interpretation of the digital object. Descriptive metadata may be referred to externally or indirectly by pointing from the digital wrapper to a metadata object, a MARC record or EAD instance, located elsewhere. See also: metadata Last Reviewed: 2003-05-20
Metadata, often intended for humans, which adds value to the content. This may be descriptions of the producer, scenes, cameras used etc.
Metadata that supports the discovery of a digital object.
metadata primarily intended to serve the purposes of discovery, identification, and selection.
Metadata used to describe or identify documents, thus supporting their discovery.
metadata primarily intended to promote discovery, identification, and selection of information resources.
Metadata used for the discovery an dinterpretation of the digital object. Descriptive metadata may be referred to externally or indirectly by pointing from the digital wrapper to a metadata object, a MARC record, or an EAD instance located elsewhere. Or, descriptive metadata may be embedded in the appropriate section of the digital wrapper.