Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
The work deals with digital information retrieval, emphasizing the importance of norms and standards in the description of images. The Norma Brasileira de Descrição Arquivística (Brazilian Standard for Archival Description) (Nobrade) and the metadata set for describing images developed by the Instituto Militar de Engenharia (Military Engineering Institute) (IME) are analyzed. The adequacy of the Nobrade is confirmed in the representation of digital images in databases.