I have developed a master AGLS metadata set. What tag or tags do I change for each of the ‘lower’ or ‘collection’ levels?
Tag content, generally, must only reflect the resource being described, so inheritance of values from higher to lower level resources is not recommended. Some values will be common to all resources of a given agency (eg Creator, Publisher, Rights), but generally tag content is specific to the actual resource being described. With collection-level resources there is scope for describing in general terms the other resources which make up the collection. The set of tags you use depends to some extent on the resource being described, so it is difficult to be prescriptive about which elements are appropriate for which pages. Australian Government agencies must create at least the mandatory seven elements, as described in the Australian Government Implementation Manual: AGLS Metadata.
