Technical Metadata and Standards for Digitisation of Cultural Heritage in Poland

The digitisation of national heritage is supported in Poland by the government who want to establish standards and recommendations that could be used by all types of cultural institutions and organizations involved in digitisation process, including museums, libraries and archives. This paper describes an approach to establishing standards concerning technical aspects of digitisation, first of all technical and structural metadata and a set of rules, parameters and formats. The presented solutions are based on an unpublished report prepared by a working team.