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Old documents are 1) a valuable asset for research on historical cultures of traditional eras and 2) material for creative work in cultural contents. But the current archives contain only rough and basic metadata, and for precisely that reason, they are practically lacking of utility. To overcome this issue, an understanding of the characteristics of archives—and that of users’ information needs—is prerequisite to all else. Also, there is a need to put forward analysis of the present status metadata, and a problems study-based improvement plan. An archive takes the form of documental exchanges between issuers and recipients. And its contents are vast in their scope and substance that they cannot help but differ from the standard patterns of an archive of general documents. Once this complexity is factored into the metadata equation, issuers and recipients, summarized headings of the archeve contents, commentaries on various historical jargons, let alone historical-cultural background for the content’s inclusion must all be implicated in detail. Remedial measures for metadata will allow for inter-agency linkage, which in turn will activate the archive in use.