When talking about digital photography, for example, two standards that are worth knowing about are:
Metadata standards, in particular, can be format- or discipline-specific.
Working in digital media management, its preservation and presentation, we find ourselves working with metadata on many different layers – from the basics of file naming convention (a fundamental step in any media management workflow) to following specific standards for technical and descriptive metadata, and even fully custom metadata structures. Here we present some tools and best practices to add good quality metadata to archival photograph collections. Accurate categorization, tagging and description of files and collections through metadata can ensure they are efficiently retrieved and contextualized by humans and software alike. This is particularly important when approaching digital files and media with a concern for their long-term sustainability, in that metadata can be transported with the archived files, work as a finding aid, and help keep our collections relevant and usable.
That information-about-data layer that allows us to search, sort, share, attribute, represent, and track the provenance of our files that's metadata. Metadata are an essential part of our digital world
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