Appalachian College Association

Outline

 

Digital Library of Appalachia

http://www.aca-dla.org/

METADATA ELEMENTS OUTLINE

January 2004

DLA Field Label

Maps to DC

Data Type

Big Field

Search-able

Hidden

Control-led Vocab.

Authority

Comments

Title

Title

Text

No

Yes

No

No

 

Mandatory.

Author

Creator

Text

No

Yes

No

No

 

Mandatory.  Personal names: Last, First

Description

Description

Text

Yes

Yes

No

No

 

Mandatory

Subject

Subject

Text

No

Yes

No

Yes

LC

Mandatory

Category

Subject

Text

No

Yes

No

Yes

DLA

Mandatory.  Categories from home page.

Identifier

Identifier

Text

No

Yes

Yes

No

DLA

Mandatory.  Identifier from DLA file name protocols.

Holding Library

Publisher

Text

No

Yes

No

Yes

DLA

Mandatory.  Name of institution as displayed on DLA web site. 

Alternative Title

Title

Text

No

Yes

No

No

 

Optional

Contributor

Contributor

Text

No

Yes

No

No

 

Optional

Time Period

Coverage

Text

No

Yes

No

Yes

DLA

Optional.  Formats in metadata guidelines.

Place

Coverage

Text

No

Yes

No

Yes

TGN

Optional.  Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Date

Date

Date

No

No

No

No

 

Optional. YYYY OR MM/DD/YY OR DD-Month YYY format.

Format

Format

Text

No

No

No

Yes

 

Optional. 

Note

None

Text

Yes

No

No

No

 

Optional

Publisher

Publisher

Text

No

Yes

No

No

 

Optional

Relation

Relation

Text

No

Yes

No

No

 

Optional

Rights

Rights

Text

No

No

No

No

 

Optional.  Link to owning library contact recommended.

Type

Resource Type

Text

No

Yes

No

Yes

DLA

Optional.  Type elements list.

Full Text

None

Full text search

Yes

Yes

No

No

 

Optional.  Import text to accompany image of original.

Participants in the Digital Library of Appalachia project agree to use a common set of metadata elements to facilitate intellectual access to items in the online collection.  Metadata elements are recorded and displayed with the digital item using CONTENTdm software.  More information about this software may be found at http://www.contentdm.com/.

DLA metadata elements are derived from Dublin Core standards as reviewed and modified by the pilot project team.  Information about the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is available online at http://www.dublincore.org/.

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