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Metadata Madness: Describing Digital Collections: 

Metadata Madness: Describing Digital Collections Danielle Cunniff Plumer Texas State Library and Archives Commission Part 2

Types of Metadata: 

Types of Metadata Descriptive Metadata Used for discovery and identification Structural Metadata Used for display and navigation within objects Includes information on the internal organization of that object Administrative Metadata Used to document and manage digital objects Subtypes: Rights management Preservation Technical Source: NISO. (2004) Understanding Metadata. Bethesda, MD: NISO Press, p.1

Descriptive Metadata Purposes: 

Descriptive Metadata Purposes Used for Identification Identify an item more or less uniquely Locate an item in physical or virtual space Resource discovery Group an object with similar objects Differentiate an object from other objects Should enable both search and browse

Descriptive Metadata Elements: 

Descriptive Metadata Elements Title or name Author or creator Keywords or subjects Abstract or notes Other elements? Specific elements depend on the metadata syntax or standard used

Descriptive Metadata Standards: 

Descriptive Metadata Standards Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR. Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2nd ed., 2002 revision. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002. Visual Resources Association. Cataloging cultural objects : a guide to describing cultural works and their images. Chicago: American Library Association, 2006. Society of American Archivists. Describing archives : a content standard. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2004.

Describing Objects: Books: 

Describing Objects: Books

Describing Objects: Books: 

Describing Objects: Books

Describing Objects: Documents: 

Describing Objects: Documents “Hardin-Simmons University – View East from Wadston Gymnasium, Abilene, Texas” Image Source: “Abilene Postcards.” TXGenWeb. http://www.rootsweb.com/~txtaylor/postcards2.htm

Describing Objects: Documents: 

Describing Objects: Documents Handbill from performance by Sugarloaf, Nov. 21, 1970, at The Civic Center in Abilene.  Image Source: www.bobyeazel.com/Sugarloaf%20Concerts.htm

Describing Objects: Maps: 

Describing Objects: Maps Abilene 1916 (topographic) Original Scale 1:125,000. 1892; Reprint, 1916. Image Source: Univ. of Texas at Austin Map Collection, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/abilene16.jpg

Describing Objects: Maps: 

Describing Objects: Maps Augustus Koch (1840–?). Bird’s Eye View of Abilene, Taylor County, Texas. 1883 Courtesy of Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Image Source: Amon Carter Museum, http://www.birdseyeviews.org/zoom.php?city=Abilene&year=1883&extra_info=

Describing Objects: Photos: 

Describing Objects: Photos Thunderstorm at sunset. Image ID: nssl0135, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection Location: Near Abilene, Texas. Photo Date: May 17, 1978 Credit: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) , http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/nssl0135.htm

Describing Objects: Photos: 

Describing Objects: Photos John Barker, ex-slave, Abilene. Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections, 1937 July 13. Source: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.01047

Describing Objects: Photos: 

Describing Objects: Photos Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train at Abilene. Photographer: Nick Cirincione. Source: Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-20694

Describing Objects: Objects: 

Describing Objects: Objects Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train at Abilene. Photographer: Nick Cirincione. Source: Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-20694

Describing Objects: Objects: 

Describing Objects: Objects "Childhood's Great Adventure" based on the book Santa Calls Author and illustrator William Joyce. Sculptor Rick Jackson, December 3, 1996. Source: Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-5271

Controlled Vocabularies: 

Controlled Vocabularies Types of Controlled Vocabularies Authority Lists Thesauri Structured Classifications Uses of Controlled Vocabularies Consistent Search & Browse Gathering similar materials together Disambiguating items

Vocabularies: People & Names: 

Vocabularies: People & Names Library of Congress Authorities http://authorities.loc.gov/ Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/ vocabularies/ulan/ Handbook of Texas Online http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/

Vocabularies: Geographic: 

Vocabularies: Geographic Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/clients/gazetteer/ Alexandria Digital Library Geographic Feature Type Thesaurus http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/FeatureTypes/ver070302/ Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/ Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) http://geonames.usgs.gov/

Vocabularies: Subject & Genre: 

Vocabularies: Subject & Genre Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/ vocabularies/aat/ Library of Congress Subject Headings. http://authorities.loc.gov/ Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm1/toc.html Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/

Vocabularies: Objects & Artifacts: 

Vocabularies: Objects & Artifacts The Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging: A Revised and Expanded Version of Robert G. Chenhall's System for Classifying Man-made Objects. Nashville, TN: AASLH Press, 1988. British Museum Object Names Thesaurus http://www.mda.org.uk/bmobj/Objintro.htm Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume http://www.mda.org.uk/costume/vbt00e.htm Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/tgm2/

Mapping Vocabularies: 

Mapping Vocabularies From OCLC Terminology Services, Cross-Vocabulary Mappings: http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/termservices/default.htm

Describing Objects: Photos: 

Describing Objects: Photos Russell Lee. West Texan sitting on his pony while watching polo match at Abilene, Texas, May 1939. Source: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/fsaall:@FILREQ(@FIELD(DOCID+ @LIT(fsa1997026607/PP))+@FIELD(COLLID+fsa))

Custom Vocabularies: 

Custom Vocabularies Range from locally-maintained term lists to detailed ontologies OWL: Web Ontology Language http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/ SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organization Systems http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/ Uncontrolled vocabularies Clay Shirkey, “Ontology is Overrated” http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous. New York: Times Books, 2007.

Combining Vocabularies: 

Combining Vocabularies Namespaces: “Namespaces are a simple and straightforward way to distinguish [element] names used in XML documents, no matter where they come from.” Tim Bray, “Namespaces by Example,” http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/01/namespaces.html Encoding schemes: “An Encoding Scheme provides contextual information or parsing rules that aid in the interpretation of a term value.” DCMI Grammatical Principles, http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/

Example XML Document: 

Example XML Document <?xml version="1.0"?> <metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:thditerms="http://www.thdi.org/standards/terms/"> <dc:title> West Texan sitting on his pony while watching polo match at Abilene, Texas</dc:title> <dc:creator xsi:type="thditerms:hbto"> Lee, Russell Werner (1903-1986)</dc:creator> <dcterms:spatial xsi:type="dcterms:TGN"> Abilene (preferred, C,V,N)</dcterms:spatial> <dc:subject xsi:type="dcterms:LCSH"> Cowboys—Texas--Pictorial works</dc:subject> <dc:subject xsi:type="thditerms:lctgm"> Nitrate negatives</dc:subject> <thditerms:institution xsi:type="thditerms:marcorg"> dlcpp</thditerms:institution> </metadata> </xml>

A Word About Wikis: 

A Word About Wikis Excellent tool for creating and maintaining local controlled vocabularies Ability to make and track changes, add context, and define relationships Free hosted wiki tools: PBWiki: http://pbwiki.com/ Wikia: http://www.wikia.com/ Locally installed wikis: MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org PmWiki: http://www.pmwiki.org/