Metadata is important for the humanities for many different reasons. The most important features of metadata are storing and guiding historians or researchers in their research! As referenced in the article, “Digitisation and Digital Resources in the Humanities,” by Terras, Melissa, they state that giving yourself and your audience breadcrumbs to figure out where and how you collected your sources is critical for helping others reach their research goals and helping you curate your process. Metadata can help a researcher keep track of their sources, but it can also help with the future discoverability of primary sources and research tools. Digital humanities is a growing section of the online sphere, and with unorganized and uncategorized collections and sources, there can be an historical connections that are lost within the chaos of the influx of data. Working with Metadata can be hard, especially when historical information is missing or when sources overlap in ownership or location; sometimes questions are hard to answer, but metadata can help researchers address this issue by revealing connections otherwise unseen in physical media. While it can be time-consuming to transform a physical piece of media and its sources into a digital one with metadata, some systems are created to help with the confusion. Systems such as Tropy help visualize the different metadata options and categories. You can edit a photo or resource you collect in research and input ownership, legal use, names, and locations. You can input tags and other forms of data into a source to help aid in the discoverability and tracing of the information pulled. Omeka is another site that helps present Metadata and input findings into an online platform that helps with discoverability and processing. In the My Kitchen collections designed in this class, we take pictures of our own kitchens, assign metadata based on what we know, and add it to the collection. With this information, with the help of Tropy, we then create the collection in Omeka, input the information and pictures, and publish it to pull the collection together. This collection and process of uploading the metadata was a valuable practice in the time and dedication it takes to process something as simple as one’s kitchen appliances! The questions that come up during this process help navigate you to a better understanding of metadata as a practice and the practicality of it from a researcher and publisher’s perspective.