Metadata Guidelines

These are general guidelines around depositing patron requests.

Depositing Digital Images

What is deposited?

• Whole objects regardless of copyright status

What is not deposited?

• Anything that is not a whole object
  
  

Structural (PDS) Metadata

This is required when there are multiple images from a single item that need to be made into a “page turning” digital object: a book; a 4-page letter, etc. 

When to use Structural Metadata?

• Simple Structural Metadata is used for almost all requests, even single images.
• Complex Structural Metadata is used when the object will contain nodes.

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