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Cleveland Memory Project Best Practices Guide

Best practices for digitizing, post-processing, archiving, and creating metadata for the Cleveland Memory Project.

Types of Metadata

This can be used as a starting template when creating new collections and by no mean limits what can be added additionally to provide more descriptive detail. Additional fields may be added to the collection by the collection administrator.

Core Descriptive Metadata Fields
Field Dublin Core Map Search Obligation Standards
Title Title Yes Mandatory None
Creator Creator Yes Required LC Authorities
Description Description Yes Mandatory None
Subject Subject Yes Mandatory LC Authorities, Cleveland Memory list
Date Original Date Yes Required ISO 8601
Time Period

Coverage-Temporal

Yes Required None (inspired by Cleveland: A Concise History)
Location Depicted

Coverage-Spatial

Yes Required LC Authorities
Object Type Type Yes Required Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Language Language Yes Required ISO 639-2

List of default descriptive metadata fields used in all collections. All of these fields are displayed, i.e., they are visible to the user.

A Note about Obligation:

Mandatory - The field must be filled out in every record.

Required - The field must be filled out if the information is available.

Optional - The cataloger has the option to not to complete this field.

Collections in Cleveland Memory share a core of set of fields that help the Digital Productions Unit, Special Collections, and Technical Services to make decisions in the future regarding the digital resources. Additional fields may be added to these if the collection warrants it.

Core Administrative Metadata Fields

Field Name Dublin Core Map Search Obligation Hidden Standards
Identifier Identifier Yes Mandatory Displayed Prefix established before scanning.
Repository None No Required Displayed LC Authorities
Repository Collection Relation-IsPartOf Yes Required Displayed Use DACS for guidelines on forming collection names.
Repository Homepage None No Required Displayed Homepage for the repository, if available.
Digital Publisher Publisher No Mandatory Displayed LC Authorities
Copyright Rights No Mandatory Displayed None
Format Format No Mandatory Displayed Information about the archival digital master file.
Digital Processing Notes Format No Mandatory Hidden Information about the archival digital master file.
Reproduction Note None No Mandatory Hidden

None

Archival Folder Name None Yes Mandatory Hidden None
Source Source Yes Required Hidden None
Donor None Yes Required Displayed LC Authorities
Processed By None Yes Mandatory Hidden None
Processing Date Date-Available Yes Mandatory Hidden ISO-8601
Internal Notes (Hidden) None Yes Optional Hidden None
Full-Text None Yes Leave blank Hidden None
OCLC Number None No Leave blank Hidden None

List of administrative metadata fields used by all Cleveland Memory collections.

 

A Note about Obligation:

 

Mandatory - The field must be filled out in every record.

Required - The field must be filled out if the information is available.

Optional - The cataloger has the option to not to complete this field.