ViRR Metadata

= Bibliographic Metadata =

Describe the intellectual content of the whole work

The bibliographic data of the digitized works is delivered by the institute in MAB2 ("Maschinenlesbares Austauschformat für Bibliotheken") format. MAB is a special data structure which is used in libraries for the exchange of metadata. For detailed information about the import of MAB data check the corresponding mapping.

= Structural Metadata =

Represents the inherent structure of the complete work

Structural Metadata in the context of the ViRR application describe the logical structure of a work.


 * Reflects the division of the work into its constituent parts
 * Depends on the physical carrier medium
 * Special case: An article begins in one work and continues in a second work (one structural element split in two works)

Further understandings of structural metadata which might be addressed at a later stage:
 * Physical structure:
 * Reflects the layout/arrangement of the text on a specific physical artefact
 * Might differ for different physical carrier mediums of the same (intellectual) work


 * Other structural information
 * Dependent on the mark-up language of the transcription (e.g. TEI), other information about the text can be attached, e.g. semantic or syntactic information, incl. linguistic categorizations (clause, morpheme, part-of-speech) or narrative structure (e.g. theme). See TEI-Levels of Transcription.

List of structural element types
Based on the requirements of the institute, gathered from Goobi and DFG Viewer.

= Descriptive Metadata = Describe the intellectual content of the structural elements of a work

= Administrative Metadata =

"Information necessary to allow a repository to manage the object: this can include information on how it was scanned, its storage format etc (often called technical metadata), copyright and licensing information, and information necessary for the long-term preservation of the digital objects (preservation metadata)" from Metadata in the Oxford Digital Library.


 * Human readable Copyright & License are described here.
 * Machine readable Copyright & License should be integrated into the ViRR application profile (MODS:copyInformation, accessCondition).
 * Technical Metadata, how to expose, integrate in METS export? (Extraction via JHOVE possible).