Ashurbanipal: A Diristry to Document Multimedia Metadata Tools for Transdisciplinary Archives

Abstract

In historical artifact conservation, archiving objects using entity metadata plays a significant role in managing the related versions of the artifacts preserved, recorded and documented at various time points. In this paper, we discuss five fields of study to display the importance of related versions in identifying patterns over time through historical events, cultural heritage, brain health, performing arts, and fine arts. We describe our use of the Ashurbanipal diristry to document scholarly research on archiving tools and technologies. We highlight the importance of the provenance infosubset in tracing metadata for cultural objects managed in NPDS repositories and enabling interoperability with existing multimedia bibliographic formats including MARC and BIBFRAME.