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Administrative metadata is information intended to facilitate the management of resources. It includes information such as when and how an object was created, who is responsible for controlling access to or archiving the content, what processing activities have been performed in relation to it, and what restrictions on access or use apply.

Technical metadata and preservation metadata are particular types of administrative metadata. Technical metadata describes digital files and includes capture information, format, file size, checksum, sampling frequencies, and similar characteristics.

Structural metadata relates the pieces of a compound object together and/or bundles related objects into a package. For example, if a book is digitized as individual page images, structural metadata can record information concerning the order of files (page numbering) and how they relate to the logical structure of the book (table of contents) is also required.