dokumentumaiban
Dokumentumaiban is a term used in some Finnish-language discourse to describe a practice in document-centric information management. It refers to embedding metadata and provenance information directly within a document, so that the document carries its own description and contextual data, rather than relying solely on external catalogs or databases. The concept aligns with ideas of in-band metadata in digital preservation, where essential details such as authorship, creation date, version history, licensing, and relationships to other items are stored inside the file or as embedded metadata tracks.
In use, dokumentumaiban is discussed in relation to archives, libraries, and scholarly publishing, where self-describing files
Benefits of the approach include enhanced portability, reproducibility, and preservation, since essential context travels with the
See also: in-band metadata, embedded metadata, Dublin Core, PROV, METS, TEI.