Metadata Standards for Digitization of Traditional Textile Design

Abstract

This paper describes the applicability of Metadata Standards for the purpose of digitization of selective Traditional textile designs of India. There are wide classes of metadata Standards and only those Standards found applicable to textiles and fashion has been sorted under consideration for the study purpose. Further while describing textiles objects and materials the metadata Standards can be considered. It is very clearly described that while digitizing process of traditional textile design; the cataloguing format should follow the principles and Standards of metadata that is accepted globally. The main objective of this study is to establish metadata Standards to unify the representation, manipulation or transmission of information related to the traditional designs so that two or more different systems can understand in the same way.
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150788