Template of the CONTENTdm Field properties



CONTENTdm Field Properties Template

Prepared by Amélie Jaquet, MWDL intern

On behalf of the Metadata Task Force of the UALC Digitization Committee

August 2010

Revised May 2012

Most of the fields of these templates are conformed to the Mountain West Digital Library Dublin Core Application Profile but some things are adapted to CONTENTdm.

The first version of the template contains only the basic elements of the Application Profile and the second version contains the same elements but also the preservation elements. MWDL Partners may choose which template version they prefer to use.

Metadata fields in contentdm – V.1

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Metadata fields in contentdm – V.2

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Explanations

FIELDS ORDER:

Suggested order (v.1):

• Title and Alternative title (when a field has refinements, they are put just after).

• Intellectual property: Creator, Contributor and Publisher → all the authorities are one after another and quickly visible on the record.

• Temporal and spatial data: Date, Temporal Coverage, Spatial Coverage

• Information about the content: Subject, Description, Table of Contents, Abstract

We did not want to put these fields too early in the record because they are sometimes very long, and then the fields coming after them are not easy to view for the user.

• Information about the resource: Type, Genre, Format, Extent, Conversion Specifications

• Others: Language, Rights, Relation, Is Part Of, Full Text, Identifier

On the second version, the preservation elements are added at the end of the record. These fields are refinements of ‘Conversion Specifications’ so that field was moved to place them all together.

FIELDS REQUIRED:

The fields required in the MWDL Dublin Core Application Profile are:

• Date

• Description

• Format

• Identifier

• Rights

• Subject

• Title

• Type

According to the MWDL Dublin Core Application Profile, some fields are ‘Mandatory if applicable’:

• Conversion Specifications

• Creator

However, CONTENTdm does not have this function. Therefore, these fields are optional but the partners should take care to fill them out.

All the others fields are optional.

CONTROLLED VOCABULARY:

The MWDL Dublin Core Application Profile recommends schemes for some of the fields.

|Field |Scheme(s) |

|Contributor |Library of Congress Name Authority File |

| |Marc Relator Codes |

|Creator |Library of Congress Name Authority File |

|Date |W3C Date Time Format profile of ISO 8601 |

|Format |Internet Media Type |

|Identifier |URI Uniform Resource Identifier |

|Language |ISO 639-3 |

|Spatial coverage |Library of Congress Name Authority File |

| |Thesaurus of Geographic Names |

| |U.S. Geological Survey |

|Subject |Library of Congress Subject Headings |

| |Art & Architecture Thesaurus |

| |Medical Subject Heading |

|Temporal coverage |Library of Congress Subject Headings |

|Type |DCMI Type Vocabulary |

| |Thesaurus of Graphic Materials |

| |Art & Architecture Thesaurus |

The Metadata Task Force chose to enable the controlled vocabulary function in the field properties only for the fields with a limited list of possible terms. Lists of controlled vocabulary terms have been created for the Type field (DCMI Type Vocabulary) and the Format field (including the most-often-used terms). An additional list has been created for the Genre field and is posted at .

The controlled vocabulary is set to “Yes” for the Type and Format fields in the template:

• Type → DCMI Type Vocabulary:

o Collection

o Dataset

o Event

o Image;MovingImage

o Image;StillImage

o InteractiveResource

o PhysicalObject

o Service

o Software

o Sound

o Text

• Format and masterFormat→ list of combinations selected from the IANA MIME Media Types:

o application/msword

o application/pdf

o application/vnd.ms-excel

o application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

o audio/aiff*

o audio/flac*

o audio/mp4

o audio/mpeg

o audio/wav*

o audio/wma*

o audio/x-realaudio*

o image/gif

o image/jp2

o image/jpeg

o image/png

o image/tiff

o image/vnd.adobe.photoshop

o image/vnd.djvu

o text/css

o text/csv

o text/plain

o text/html

o text/rtf

o text/xml

o video/avi*

o video/mjp2*

o video/mp4

o video/mpeg

o video/quicktime

o video/wmv*

o video/x-flv*

o video/x-realvideo*

* MIME types not yet registered in the list of Internet Media Types maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) at .

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