Modify Metadata

 

Process Module:  Describe Entity

Process Title:  Modify Metadata

Definition: The process used to alter information about an entity. Entities can include resources, collections, people, organizations, services, events, courses, facilities, finances, relationships, etc.  Entities can be electronic/digital or physical. Entities can be held/maintained locally or remotely.  Metadata will identify the entity and can be descriptive, structural, technical, and/or administrative.  Metadata can be modified in real-time or via a batch process.  Metadata will generally be encoded using XML and will generally conform to an identified metadata content standard.  The Modify Metadata Process is independent of application end point, resource, data object, or underlying communications protocols and service models.

 

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Use Cases: Metadata is modified for resource discovery, supporting the management of entities by administrators or curators, ensuring the long-term maintenance and availability of entities, recording information such as provenance, ownership, copyright, access conditions, etc. Metadata alteration activities can occur for any entity in a collection, to add additional/related information, or to delete incorrect or outdated information not needed for historical/audit purposes. Metadata can be added to or revised by creators/users at various stages in an existing metadata object’s life-cycle.  Metadata can be updated on a object-by-object basis or in batch processes modifying large quantities of metadata. Metadata being modified may include descriptive, holdings, authority, financial, structural, and administrative or other types of metadata.

Reference(s):

  1. (NLA Services Framework 3.2: Update) “The act of update results in a changed business object which may replace the original object in a data store or be registered as a new object depending on datastore policies. Generally the Library replaces metadata with the updated version but adds updated content as a new object associated with the original object.”https://wiki.nla.gov.au/display/LABS/3.+Service+framework (v. 0.91, p. 19/46)
  2. (NLA Services Framework 7.4: Change) Change metadata in a registry based on a set of algorithms or business rules.
  3. (e-Framework Service Genre: Update) Alter a business object.http://www.e-framework.org/Contributions/ServiceGenres/tabid/987/Default.aspx
  4. (e-Framework: Service Genre: Validate) Check whether a business object meets specified conformance requirements http://www.e-framework.org/Contributions/ServiceGenres/tabid/987/Default.aspx