CIRCA:Archiving Our Collection
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Early Considerations
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 Examples
| Element | Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 | Example 4 | Example 5 |
| Title | CCH, Ontario Humanities Computing 1.4, newsletter, 1987 | Glickman and Staalman, Manual for Printing of Literary Texts and Concordances by Computer, Manual, 1966 | McGann, Culture and Technology. The Way We Live Now; What is to be Done?, Podcast, 2004 | McMaster University, “The Face of Text”, Conference Proceedings, 2004 | Lancashire, IBM-U of T Computing Centre, Letters, Meeting Minutes, Report |
| creatorTitle | Ontario Humanities Computing 1.4 | Manual for the Printing of Literary Texts and Concordances by Computer | McGann, Culture and Technology. The Way We Live Now; What is to be Done?, Podcast, 2004 | The Face of Text, Computer Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities, Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis | Minutes of the Meeting of the Advisory Committee for the IBM/U of T Cooperative Agreement |
| creatorOriginal | CCH, Willard McCarty Editor | Glickman, Robert J. and Gerrit Joseph Staalman | McGann, Jerome | McMaster University | Lancashire, Ian |
| digitalRecordCreator | Alicia Hibbert | Alicia Hibbert | |||
| recordCreator | Victoria Smith | Victoria Smith | Victoria Smith | Victoria Smith | Victoria Smith |
| subject | Ontario Humanities Computing, OHC, Ontario Consortium for COmputer and the Humanities, OCCH, Centre for Computers in the Humanities | Programs for Research On Romance Authors, PRORA II, PRORA III, Literature, Linguistics | Text Analysis, Humanities Computing, Canadian Humanities Computing, CaSTA | ||
| description | Issue 1.4 of Ontario Humanities Computing | A manual for using the computer programs PRORA in literature and linguistics research, Developed at the University of Toronto | Podcast, Presentation at 2004 The Face of Text, McMaster University | CaSTA 2004 Conference Proceedings, McMaster University | |
| physicalDescription | 8 pages | 129 pages, cerlox binding | MP3 audio | 129 pages | |
| originals | The original document from Ian Lancashire's personal collection | ||||
| notes | Proceeding of the Third Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis | ||||
| publicationInformation | Published by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at the University of Toronto, December 1987 | University of Toronto Press, 1966 | |||
| archivedVersionHistory | |||||
| dateOrigination | 1987-12-XX | 1966-xx-xx | 2004-11-xx | 1994-11-xx | |
| dateCollection | 2011 | 2011 | |||
| dateDigitization | |||||
| documentType | Newsletter | Manual | Podcast | Conference Proceedings | Minutes |
| electronicFormat | PDF, 8 pages | PDF, 129 pages | MP3 | PDF, 129 pages | |
| provenance | Ontario Consortium for Computers in the Humanities | University of Toronto | McMaster University, Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis | McMaster University, Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis | |
| language | English | English | English | English | English |
| relatedMaterials | CCH, Canadian Humanities Computing 2.3-4, newsletter, 1988 | Glickman, An Integrated Series of Computer Programs, Manual, 1965 | McMaster University, “The Face of Text”. conference proceedings, 2004 | McGann, Culture and Technology. The Way We Live Now; What is to be Done?, Podcast, 2004 | |
| coverage | Humanities Computing in English Canada, December 1987 | 2004-11-19-21; McMaster University | |||
| identifier | |||||
| rights | Public Access | ||||
| access | Public Use | Public access | Public access | Public access | |
| use | Public use | Public use | |||
| preferredCitation |
Metadata Example Definitions
| 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
