Introduction to the SI DAMS Digital Art Metadata Model

The SI Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) currently has three established metadata models created by various pan-institutional working groups of digital content stakeholders. All files stored in the DAMS are assigned to one of these metadata models upon import and provide fields for administrative and rights tracking, technical documentation about the files, embedded data, and enhanced description. This document provides and introduction to and overview of the media models specific to still image, audio, and video assets.