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Group publication metadata have two meanings. First, they describe the given group publication. Second, they are inherited by all publications in the described group publication. That is very important when subsequent digital objects are entered to that group publication. If a group publication is described with metadata shared by all objects in that publication, the editors will not have to enter those metadata for every object in that group publication, and they will be able to focus on entering the descriptions specific to particular objects.
 For example, for a group publication called Daily, the editors can enter attribute value Publisher to its metadata. Then, all publications in the Daily group publication will inherit that value, so the editors will not have to enter it for publications later added to the Daily group publication.

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Directory Descriptive Metadata

Catalog Directory descriptive metadata have special meaning because catalogs directories are only visible in the Editor and Administrator Application (they are not visible for web page users). When metadata are entered in a catalogdirectory, then all metadata ascribed to that catalog that directory will be, by default, entered in the creator of all elements created in that catalogdirectory, on the page for entering descriptive metadata. That mechanism makes it possible to specify the description which will be proposed by default for all elements created in that catalogdirectory. For example, if in the given catalogdirectory, publications are created by only one institution, which has permissions for all objects entered in that catalogdirectory, the attribute value can be “Permissions”.

Methods of Entering Metadata

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