The Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory records descriptive,
administrative, and structural metadata via a variety of community
standards. It has adopted MARC 21 (MARC Standard, 2010) as the
standard defining the structure of a catalog record and AACR2
(Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2005) as a content standard. The
standards are justified since MARC records already exist in the
Center’s library catalog for many of the items digitized in the lab. They
can easily be imported into the Center’s digital asset management
system using the Z39.50 protocol. The staff of the Center and Center’s
partners consists of trained librarians who update records when
needed.