A study of metadata standards

摘要

Introduction With the automation of information systems and with the advent of digital libraries, norms, standards and techniques of library studies have been widely discussed, analyzed, reevaluated and reorganized. This paper aims to offer functional requirements, intrinsic attributes and metadata elements requirements and their status in the format of metadata standards. In the present study, 20 metadata standards are chosen which are functional across various metadata harvesting service providers, museums, archives and other open access communities. The findings revealed that various metadata standards have been designed to serve different purposes like describing text, image, video, manuscripts, etc. For serving these purposes, it consists of different elements having varying status in each metadata standard.