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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