Metadata Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/category/preservation/metadata/ Nonprofit. Secure. Digital Archives. Fri, 09 May 2025 20:32:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.permanent.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Permanent-Icon-512-32x32.png Metadata Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/category/preservation/metadata/ 32 32 Behind the Scenes: Digital Preservation at the Peale https://www.permanent.org/blog/behind-the-scenes-peale/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/behind-the-scenes-peale/#respond Fri, 09 May 2025 20:31:17 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=8611 At Permanent.org, we believe that preserving community stories should be accessible to all. In this guest blog post, we spotlight a recent Byte4Byte internship at The Peale in Baltimore, where University of Maryland graduate student Nicolas Lizarralde helped organize and add metadata to their Out of the Blocks oral history collection. His work not only helped make these powerful community voices more accessible, but also provided The Peale with a clearer path toward sustainable digital preservation. The post is written by both Heather Shelton, the Peale’s Digital Curator, and Nicolas. Heather Shelton: At The Peale in Baltimore, community voices are at the heart of everything we do. Housed in the oldest purpose-built museum building in ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/behind-the-scenes-peale/feed/ 0 Love (Meta)Data with Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/love-metadata-with-permanent-org/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/love-metadata-with-permanent-org/#respond Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:52:07 +0000 https://www.permanent.org/?p=5068 Every year during the week of Valentine’s Day, universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals join together to celebrate Love Data Week, an international celebration of data. At Permanent, we’re celebrating Love Data Week by sharing with you our new and upcoming changes to metadata features on Permanent.org. A preserved file without description and context isn’t truly preserved, so Permanent.org provides basic metadata fields as well as extended metadata options to ensure that anyone can use metadata to capture their most cherished stories and memories. We value hearing from our members so we can make a platform that meets diverse needs and adheres to the changing standards and best practices of preservation. Recently, we ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/love-metadata-with-permanent-org/feed/ 0 Enhancing Family Photos with Metadata https://www.permanent.org/blog/enhancing-family-photos-with-metadata/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/enhancing-family-photos-with-metadata/#respond Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:23:31 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4835 The Family History Metadata Working Group (FHMWG), Savemetadata.org, is a collaboration between leaders in the family history software industry. We are working together to improve the process of preserving critical information about family photos in order to make them more valuable to the family history community. The technical term for this critical information is metadata: the who, what, where, when and how about a photo. Together, our group has developed a set of recommendations for providers in the photo software industry. These recommendations improve how the most relevant family history metadata is captured, transferred, and preserved. Our recommendations were carefully crafted in order to preserve and leverage what photo software is already designed to do. ...

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