Making a Metadata Map.ppt  Making a Metadata Map: Dublin Core to Local Field Names, WiLS Hour April 10, 2008. WiLS Hours are recorded and archived. Check out the WiLS web site, Events page for access.

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Metadata is information about your digital objects that allows them to be searched and accessed by users--the equivalent of cataloging information for a book. Metadata provides the technical details of how an object was digitized, and describes the original analog object and the subject(s) represented.

• WHO uses an adaptation of Dublin Core metadata, a common standard used to describe electronic resources.
  • There are 15 basic elements, 8 of which are required for WHO collections.
    • View samples of WHO metadata 
    • Worksheet for assigning local field names to expanded Dublin Core elements WHO Metadata elements 
    • Full guidelines, WHO_Metadata_Guide_v1_3, (doc) revised December 2007 or WHO Metadata Guidelines, v.1.3 (pdf).
• Metadata template examples
• Open Archives Initiative
  • OAI Harvesting

• METADATA HELP
  • Getty's Introduction to Metadata
  • Best Practices for Shareable Metadata, from The National Science Digital Library and the Digital Library Federation
  • National Science Digital Library's Metadata Primer
  • WHO used the Collaborative Digitization Program Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices as the guide for developing our guidelines. Their explanations of element usage may provide further understanding.

• Thesauri are controlled lists of vocabulary terms used to describe objects. Whenever possible, digital objects should be described using such a standard list. Some commonly used thesauri are:
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings for name, title, and subject terms
  • Thesaurus of Graphic Materials to describe visual materials
  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
  • Getty's Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
  • Getty's Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)

• Depending on what type of materials you are digitizing, the following schemas and guides may be helpful:
  • Getty's Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CWDA)
  • Encoded Archival Description (EAD), for online finding aids
  • VRA Core, for visual resources.
  • Getty's Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings

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