Metadata
Parabaik and Palm-Leaf Manuscripts
Metadata
Descriptive
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Physical description like dimensions, covers, edges, lines per page, number of pages or folds, language, state of the materials when it was received
Bibliographic Information
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Collection number, box number, shelving number, title, author, subject, date written, place where written, accompanying materials
Administrative
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Scanned when, by who, scanner settings, image specifications, conservation treatments that have been done, documentation done
Metadata should be external. This will allow the user to browse faster the metadata separately from the images. This also allows the metadata to be indexed in several ways.
It is a lot more convenient to manage images that are in a structured file directory system.
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