This paper suggests how to systemize administrative metadata required for managing intellectual property rights and their applications, which has been newly requested in digital library environment. For this purpose, firstly, the types of metadata required in digital libraries were identified. Secondly, this paper detected problems in MARC that digital libraries have been using as the tool for information organization. Finally, the structures of administrative metadata required by copyright laws were analyzed. On the basis of the researches above, this paper proposed how to systemize and operate administrative metadata that interlocks MARC, Dublin Core and administrative system of copyright trust agencies.