7 Metadata in Public Collections
Most of this book up to now has concentrated on metadata created by the makers or owners of the work. When television programs or newsfilm are donated to public collections, metadata creation then becomes the responsibility of the caretaking organization. The organization will need to save relevant legacy metadata that perhaps was received with the physical tapes or films, but it must also add content, preservation, and provenance data, following standardized cataloging rules.
University and national libraries and archives can sometimes hold individual programs, series, or, in the case of some local television stations in the United States, entire broadcasting collections. This chapter is not concerned with individual ...
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