Introduction
These Metadata Guidelines were written to better position UMass Amherst Libraries' Digital Collections for optimal indexing and display in an aggregated environment. The guidelines accomplish the following:
- Define basic metadata principles
- Collate resources (e.g. links to external cataloging tools/resources, including the MWG bibliography on shareable metadata)
- Provide content guidelines for different data elements
- Identify data elements by degrees of “requiredness” and describe what functions are enabled or sacrificed depending on levels of adoption
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