Blurring the distinction between metadata and content files : datasets

"Case study: An archival body has collated text documents, photographs, plans, and more to assist with the preservation of national heritage buildings and monuments. They would now like to have these digitized and stored in a library and generally made publicly accessible.
This gives rise to some interesting conceptual nuances in figuring out the best way to structure the data in a library (repository) record."

(source: Metalogger, 12/06/09)