A multi-level metadata structure for image archiving

As the development of the society, the amount of information increases. So, the need is proposed to classify and arrange information systematically in order to delivery information to user and use efficiently through the information maintain and preserve. For this, construction of digital archiving is necessary. The current research has weakness of metadata adaptation related with archiving for image because the research structures for extensive contents. As the standard of digital archiving is OAIS(open archival information system) reference model that defined ISO standard in 2002 and this model has the structure that stores step by step organizing. In this paper, we find out digital archiving workflow based on OAIS(open archival information system) and define XML schema of metadata. For digital archiving of image, the addition of metadata needs to express based on not only simple fact but also semantic information about the picture. Therefore, we propose metadata management model based on multi-level classes.