Metadata management in Europeana Photography

Abstract

This paper describes the metadata management experience of the Europeana Photography project, a digitization action with final aim of making available in the internet over 430.000 items of early photographs with historical, cultural and artistic value, belonging to the first 100 years of the art of photography.  The metadata converged in Europeana, the European Digital Library which collects about 31 million digitized items of European cultural heritage. It illustrates the way the Europeana Photography project has created and enriched metadata of images being delivered to Europeana through the project, and the context in which it has done so.