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What does it mean to “expose metadata?

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What does it mean to “expose metadata?

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When metadata is made available for others to see it is said to be “exposed.” For example, a digital repository may expose its metadata so that an external search engine can discover and locate resources in it or so that other repositories can gather (or harvest) metadata.