The management of digital objects and the management of media that support object, procedural, and organizational records in the system.
Use Cases and Community Design Workshop Notes
CollectionSpace will use the document and media handling functionality provided through Nuxeo as well as functionality provided via ImageMagick for the management, display, and use of media.
From: Baca, Murtha, Patrica Harpring, Elisa Lanzi, Linda McRae, and Ann Whiteside, eds. Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images. Chicago: American Library Association, 2006.
"CCO recommends making a clear distinction between the work and the image. It is important to make a distinction at the outset of cataloging because many of the same types of data elements used to document the work are also used to document the image. If the distinction is not clearly draw, the results of a search can produce inaccuracies and confusion for the end user. It can also make it difficult to migrate or export the data to another system."
CDWA: Related Visual Documentation
"The identification of images that depict the work of art or architecture. Also includes subcategories for an image authority."
Paradigm Workbook on Digital Private Papers > Administrative and preservation metadata
During the course of its lifecycle, a single digital archival object requires an extensive amount of associated metadata, so that it can be managed and preserved effectively by the repository, and understood and accessed by the researcher. There are three broad categories of metadata: