Online Family Archive Project

Metadata

Fall 2006

 

Metadata Report

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Artifact Wishlist

 

Metadata Thoughts

  • look at the VRA Core 3.0 examples for some ideas
  • some metadata to describe the file (image/audio/video)
    • format
    • type
    • date created
    • size
    • resolution
  • some metadata to describe the object which that file depicts
    • type (i.e. photograph, digital photograph, quilt, etc.)
    • subject
    • materials (cloth, etc.)
    • physical size
    • era/coverage (the time in which the object was created)
    • generation (the generation to which the object is attached)
    • family member "ownership" (family member(s) to which the object is connected); repeatable
    • relationship (relationship of family member(s) to myself (archive author))
      • ...or their relationship to grandma/grandpa? (the branch-off point)
        • Relation.Part of = Part of Disasters of war (identify what the relationship is, and to what/whom)
      • or else a family tree tracking of some sort; need to identify these relationships easily
        • look at visualization programs for inspiration; make it linkable (use DC Relation?)
    • also information about compound objects...
    • what about anecdote / story element?
      • is it important to record the source / author of anecdote?
      • Description.Anecdote
      • Description.Object
      • Description.Anecdote Source
    • what about quilt compound object; description of squares, etc.
      • do i get separate metadata for each aspect of the item, or no?

 

For Metadata Report

  • elements
    • label
    • definition
    • comment
    • qualifiers
    • example
    • naming conventions
  • controlled vocabulary (identify, describe)
  • name authority
  • input rules (maybe preliminary)

 

Time Periods

  • should it be designated by:
    • time period / era (great depression, world war II)
    • generation (baby boomers, genX)
    • decade (1950s, 1980s)
    • specific date (1971, 2003)
  • will probably use a combination of a few of these

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