Metadata: Exercises

Metadata Template Exercise

Please use Dublin Core Metadata to create metadata templates for each of the three collections. You should select one image from each of the three Sample Files. You can download and use this worksheet.

Review the Dublin Core materials and controlled vocabulary examples provided in the Resources & Best Practices section.

Example

Below is an example from the UW-Milwaukee Libraries Digitization Unit:

Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection Descriptive Metadata

No. Field Name Dublin Core Mapping Example Vocabulary
1. Title Title Mausoleum of Amir Abdur Rahman in Kabul Natural language
2. Photographer’s Note/Description Description Kabul- Mausoleum of Amire Ab-Durrahman (1880-1901) in Zarnegar Park overlooking capital city. Transcribed text
3. Photographer Creator Forman, Harrison
4. Date of Photograph Date 1969 Transcribed text
5. Site Coverage Mausoleum of Amir Abdur Rahman (Kabul, Afghanistan) Controlled Voc.-Library of Congress Authority File
6. Subject Subject Architecture; Historic buildings; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Controlled Voc.-Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
7. Continent Coverage-Spatial Asia Controlled Voc.-Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
8. Country/Region Coverage-Spatial Afghanistan Controlled Voc.-Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
9. State/Province Coverage-Spatial Controlled Voc.-Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
10. City/Place Coverage-Spatial Kabul Controlled Voc.-Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
11. Geographic Feature Coverage-Spatial Controlled Voc.-Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
12. Type Type Image
13. Original Collection Relation-Is-Format-Of Harrison Forman Collection
14. Original Item Size Format 35 mm
15. Original Item Medium Format Color slide Controlled Voc.-Art & Architecture Theasurus
16. Original Item ID Identifier 36h, 34-3-13 Transcribed text
17. Provenance Contributor Donated by Sandra Forman, Harrison Forman’s wife. Natural language
18. Repository Relation-Is-Part-Of American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
19. Rights Rights The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
20. Publisher Publisher University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
21. Digital ID Identifier af00039
22. Date Digitized None 2001-12-06
23. Digital Collection Relation-Is-Part-Of Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection

 

 

 

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