Resolving the confusion over metadata-creation in digital archives

Metadata is a growing concern in every sphere of information management, especially for libraries worldwide. This paper aims to present a bird’s-eye view on metadata creation, thus provide glimpses of diverse opinions in producing structured metadata consistently across the digital repositories. The paper dwells on a variety of practices having their own merits and arguments and draws attention to the responsibility of metadata creation, a fuzzy area. The paper argues that the best results could be achieved by integrating both automatic and manual efforts and suggested better possible ways of metadata creation.