ABSTRACT
Metadata best practices encompassing metadata guidelines and application profiles function as an essential mechanism for metadata planning, application, and management. Thus, examination of the documentation processes of metadata best practices is essential. There has been a rapidly growing body of digital repositories and collections; accordingly, a wide range of digital projects and initiatives have adopted various metadata standards. Because of differences in the formats and knowledge domains of the resources, it is inevitable that these digital projects and initiatives may have different needs regarding metadata. Therefore, when a metadata standard is adopted in various institutions and organizations, it may be modified to reflect the community needs and characteristics of given resources.
