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Metadata is increasingly becoming essential for successful, quality digital preservation of information. Proponents of metadata management emphasize its importance in ensuring future access to the increasing digital information resources across different platforms, over substantially longer periods of time. Hence the effort made by the author to explain the procedural requirements for metadata management and suggest areas of improvement

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Samuel is an industry consultant in data, knowledge and Information management spanning over a period of 7 years. He founded Data Arch solutions based in 2010 Uganda which consults in the same area. Passionate about providing high quality, cutting edge research, he also consults in a number of cross cutting issues in different fields.

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