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Structural Metadata for Prototype Repository under Development with CNRI

The following documents have been prepared in association with the development of the prototype repository for digital objects that is under development with CNRI. They describe the structural and administrative metadata that will be stored with digital objects in the repository and used to represent relationships among objects. The Library of Congress is storing the traditional bibliographic, descriptive metadata separately. Links from catalog records or finding aids will usually be to a "meta-object" in the repository using a handle as a URN. The meta-object incorporates links to the different variants and components of a particular bibliographic item.

The same "fields" of structural metadata that are represented in this prototype repository as elements and attributes associated with objects are also used in another prototype repository developed with IBM for the Federal Theatre Project. Rather than using an object-oriented design, the repository for the Federal Theatre Project uses a relational database to store the structural metadata.

• Structural Metadata for the Repository under Development with CNRI
  by Virginia Vitucci (rev. 7/10/97)
• Samples of structural metadata for objects from Coolidge collection,
  by Jane Bossert (rev. 3/17/97)
  • For a photo
  • For a document available only as scanned images

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Structural Metadata for Prototype Repository under Development with CNRI

Revised: 7/10/97
National Digital Library Program
Comments: vvit@loc.gov