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Approved by the Metadata Coordinating Group: 17 August 2009 2010
approved document
The purpose of this document is to help support the common digitization needs of the MIT Libraries. Metadata needs vary from collection to collection, and sometimes project to project. Decisions about metadata are often made by the individuals who create it, with consideration for the requirements of the project and/or the cataloging system used to capture the metadata. These objects and the associated metadata are typically deposited into DOME, where the metadata decisions have lasting impact on the usefulness of the repository. Combining these various collections/projects often adds additional metadata requirements needed for interoperability within the shared system.
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