The Group 3 topic for exploration was structural and administrative metadata and the applicability of TEI for the capture and storage of such metadata for page-image conversion projects.
Structural metadata is necessary.
Sharing structural metadata requires common elements and a common carrier syntax. Sharing structural metadata that could enable interoperability. Sharing could imply metadata bound with or independent from objects themselves. We have only been discussing structural metadata, whereas we assume sharing will require other elements necessary for usage, such as descriptive and other administrative metadata. Sharing could mean access only rather than object exchange .