Metadados: um recurso para preservação digital

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the importance of metadata as a resource for digital preservation. Explaining about the need for digital preservation, with the theoretical aspects that characterize the metadata and addressing the initiatives undertaken involving the development of these. Moreover, considering the increasing number of documents and information produced in digital form need to be delivered on time, correctly and concisely and is formatted so as to meet the needs of users. The study to define the importance of metadata, has been of fundamental value, because it highlights the lack of published literature exists. The methodological procedures will be based on examinations of works, articles and related material on the subject of study via the Internet, in databases of scientific fields studied in the research. However, the projects analyzed in this study and the main authors of archives have advocated the approach of metadata for managing electronic records, as they consider appropriate for the new reality of the high volume of information and complexity of the electronic environment. The challenge is to identify the characteristics of the real world and virtual (computer) to be preserved.