CIRCA:Archiving Our Collection
From CIRCA
Revision as of 11:47, 11 September 2012 by VictoriaSmith (Talk | contribs)
Contents |
Example Items to Be Archived
- File:CCH, Ontario Humanities Computing 1.4, newsletter, 1987.pdf
- Glickman and Staalman, Manual for Printing of Literary Texts and Concordances by Computer, Manual, 1966 Embargoed
- McGann, Culture and Technology. The Way We Live Now; What is to be done?, Podcast, 2004 [[1]]
- File:McMaster University, "The Face of Text", Conference Proceedings, 2004.pdf
- XML Metadata Lancashire, IBM-U of T Computing Centre, Letters, Meeting Minutes, Reports, 1982-1985 Embargoed
Validated XML Metadata Documents
Metadata Example
Element | Definition | Example |
Title | The name the project gives to the document to distinguish it in the archive. Descriptive name. | CCH, Ontario Humanities Computing 1.4, newsletter, 1987 |
creatorTitle | A name given to a resource by its creator. | Ontario Humanities Computing 1.4 |
creatorOriginal | The person responsible for the creation of the resource in its original form. | CCH, Willard McCarty Editor |
digitalRecordCreator | The person responsible for the the creation of the digital form of the resource. | Alicia Hibbert |
recordCreator | The person responsible for the creation of the archive record. | Victoria Smith |
subject | The topic of the resource (key words, phrases), separated by coma. | Ontario Humanities Computing, OHC, Ontario Consortium for COmputer and the Humanities, OCCH, Centre for Computers in the Humanities |
description | An account of the resource (an abstract, table of contents)/information about the subject matter. | Issue 1.4 of Ontario Humanities Computing |
physicalDescription | Physical characteristics and technical requirement of original. Medium condition. | 8 pages |
originals | Provide details of the originals including physical location, medium, condition. Narrative field. | The original document from Ian Lancashire's personal collection |
notes | General note. | |
publicationInformation | If resource has been published provide account. | Published by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at the University of Toronto, December 1987 |
archivedVersionHistory | To keep track of versions of resource in the archive. | |
dateOrigination | Date of the origination of the resource. | 1987-12-XX |
dateCollection | Date the resource in question entered the collection. | |
dateDigitization | Date of digitization | |
documentType | The nature or genre of the resource. Example letter, memo, meeting. We need a controlled thesaurus. | Newsletter |
electronicFormat | Extent and medium of unit of description. Archived version. We need to create a controlled thesaurus. | PDF, 8 pages |
provenance | A related resource or organization fro which the described resource is derived. | Ontario Consortium for Computers in the Humanities |
language | Controlled thesaurus. | English |
relatedMaterials | A related resource in the archive. | CCH, Canadian Humanities Computing 2.3-4, newsletter, 1988 |
coverage | The spatial or temporal topic of the resource. | Humanities Computing in English Canada, December 1987 |
identifier | An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context (a unique identifier). ERA uses a system called the Handle system to assign permanent identifiers. | |
rights | Information about the rights held in and over the resource. | Public Access |
access | Use for conditions governing access. | Public Use |
use | Use for conditions governing use. | |
preferredCitation |
XML Examples
Each of the following documents were validated using Oxygen
- XML Metadata CCH, Ontario Humanities Computing 1.4, Newsletter, 1987
- XML Metadata Glickman and Staalman, Manual for Printing of Literary Texts and Concordances by Computer, Manual, 1966
- XML Metadata McGann, Culture and Technology. The Way We Live Now; What is to be Done?. Podcast, 2004
- XML Metadata McMaster University, "The Face of Text", Conference Proceedings, 2004
- XML Metadata Lancashire, IBM-U of T Computing Centre, Letters, Meeting Minutes, Reports, 1982-1985 Embargoed