The Three Types

There are THREE (3) different types of metadata: descriptive, structural, and administrative.

Descriptive: describes a resource for purposes such as discovery and identification. It can include elements such as title, abstract, author, and keywords.

Structural:  indicates how compound objects are put together, for example, how pages are ordered to form chapters.

Administrative: provides information to help manage a resource, such as when and how it was created, file type and other technical information, and who can access it. There are several subsets of administrative data; two that are sometimes listed as separate metadata types are:

−Rights management metadata, which deals with intellectual property rights
−Preservation metadata, which contains information needed to archive and preserve a resource (Riley, 2017^[1]).

What types of metadata can you find in this screenshot? (GP Software^[2]).