ADL Item Level Metadata
An Example


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Does item level metadata exist?
(
If no, please skip to Minimal Requirements)

yes
Where is item level metadata located?
(e.g. on header record, url, in database, in flat file)
Informix db on unix server at UCSB Map & Imagery Lab,
accessible via: http://webclient.alexandria.ucsb.edu
Metadata record description (schema):
Enter text or url. Record description should
describe : field name, type, length, nulls allowed

View ADL sample item level metadata schemas

http://alexandria.ucsb.edu/adl/docs_public/ADLMetadata/drg_schema.htm
Metadata creation date: 1999/05
Metadata last updated: 2002/01
Metadata standard (if any): MARC 21

The following fields will be mapped to the ADL Search Buckets.


Minimal Requirements
Note: The item level metadata may already supply the following information.
If it does not, or if item level metadata does not exist, please tell us:

What is the unique identifier
for the items in this collection?

If item level metadata exists, which
field(s) will be the unique identifier
for the objects in this collection?

Please see
notes about unique identifers.

ocode

What is the title format for each item?

If item level metadata exists, which field(s)
will comprise the title for each item in the collection?

 "DRG" $ocode "Digital Raster Graphic of" $mapname, $state
Type:

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maps
Format:
TIFF
Temporal extent of collection
Begin date (yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd): 1943
End date (can be the same as begin date): 1995
If specific dates are not available,
please give as much detail as possible about
the date range of objects in collection:
latter half 20th century, 1943-1995
Spatial extent of collection
Bounding box coordinates: West bounding: (in item level metadata)
East bounding:  
North bounding:  
South bounding:  

If bounding box coordinates are not available,
please describe the geographic range of objects
in the collection in as much detail as possible:

Optional Information
If item level metadata does not exist or does not supply the following information, please tell us:

Besides the unique identifier,
are there any other identifier fields
(call numbers, system ids)?
Please show field and any formatting required:
$ucsb_local_call_num, $ref_code

Assigned terms
(index term, genre/form):

Maps - Digital - Raster
Source of assigned terms
(Authority List):
LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings)
Subject related text
(key words not taken from an authority list):
California Coordinate System; Zone 6; topo; topographic; quad; quadrangle; polyconic; universal transverse mercator; state plane
Originator/Publisher/Author (please specify): Originators = Stephen P. Teale Data Center (Calif.)'; 'U.S. Geological Survey.
Scale : 1:100K

Resolution in meters:

10
Quadname/Mapname: $mapname

Other fields/information that would be useful
in describing and searching this collection:

other physical details = color infrared