Information Design Activities
Content Creation Activities
Mapping
and Exposure
Local Environment
Aggregation
Activities
Aggregated
Environment
Collection decisions, Metadata scheme and controlled vocabulary selection
Digitization, application of metadata, application of controlled vocabulary
Normalization, Value Added Activities
Activities
Information design and creation activities (resource providers)
Value added activities (aggregator)
Use of metadata (end user)
Find, Identify, Select, Obtain
Aggregated Environment
When taken out of their native environment, metadata may lose crucial contextual information
Main activity to support is discovery
Something else about agg. env.
Change in Quality Requirements?
Think of quality in two ways
Quality to support local activity
Quality to support aggregated activity
To answer the question our title poses: Is quality metadata sharable metadata
It depends…