EDINA newsline
December 2010: Volume 15 Issue 4
JISC recently funded EDINA to undertake a short (three-month) study to scope the feasibility, viability and value of creating an aggregation of metadata about images and time-based media, i.e. collections of information about digital resources, rather than collections of digital resources themselves.
The final report is now available and indicates benefits of, the opportunities for, aggregations of metadata describing images and time-based media, and the barriers to having open and shareable metadata for these resources. It also describes a number of scenarios in which such aggregations would be useful or required, and different models for aggregating metadata.
The team would like to thank all participants in the consultation process for their time and expertise. To enable further opportunity for contribution from the wide range of stakeholders, feedback on this report is encouraged as part of the consultation exercise. Comments are welcome on the blog linked to below.