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access authorization, historical trails, manipulation approval,
denitions, and integrity relationships.
2. Information and its value must be identied by its current keep-
ers. It must be authenticated and documented. Stewardship must
be identied or assigned. e metadata must be capable of being
universally available so that the data contained within can be lev-
eraged by all who are authorized to use it.
3. A mechanism will be required to maintain identied metadata
information that can be listed, categorized, and show steward-
ship, level of privacy/security, and location of information. ere
is a need for unied metadata information management to make
it accessible for all agencies. ...