Initial thoughts on the use of metadata for documentation of ephemera:

What defines the event?  [parameters]
- duration
- media used
- location
- perfomers/artists
- related material
- documentation medium (video,digital,photo,text)
----how is this material accessed?  [library,web,museum]

Metadata is, basically, "data about data." As defined by Richard Rinehart ("Preserving the Rhizome ArtBase"), there are three basic types of metadata.
1. Descriptive - information used to search for, identify and explain the work.
2. Administrative - information needed for management of the work - legal, storage, non-public provenance information.
3. Technical - information about the infrastructure and materials necessary for preservation and handling.

++ Remember to maintain the distinction between metadata about the original work and metadata about the digital representation of the work.

++Consistency is Key: be consistent with other metadata standards that have been developed in order to more easily facilitate long-term maintenance and future migration to different software and for integration into other collections.