Collection-level metadata elements

C1. internalname: the collection's internal name, e.g., "adl_catalog"    
C2. lowercasename: the collection's lowercase name, e.g., "the ADL Catalog"    
C3. uppercasename: the collection's uppercase name, e.g., "THE ADL CATALOG"    
C4. fulltitle: the collection's full title, e.g., "Alexandria Digital Library Catalog"    
C5. shorttitle: the collection's short title, e.g., "ADL Catalog"    
C6. responsibleparty: the party responsible for the collection, e.g., "Map and Imagery Laboratory, Davidson Library, University of California at Santa Barbara"    
C7. scopeandpurpose: the collection's scope and purpose and, optionally, definitions of fundamental concepts that may be unfamiliar to potential users of the collection, e.g., "The ADL Catalog provides metadata for geospatial data..."    
C8. subjectcoverage: the coverage of the collection relative to the collection's subject area, e.g., "California earthquakes and other seismic events"    
C9. contenttype: the nature of the collection's contents, e.g., "gazetteer data" or "bibliographic entries"    
C10. relationships: the collection's relationships to other collections    
C11. creationdate: the date the collection was created    
  year: the year as a 4-digit integer, e.g., "1970"  
  month: the full name of the month, e.g., "January"  
  day: the day as a 1- or 2-digit integer, e.g., "1"  
C12. lastupdatedate: the date the collection was last updated    
  year  
  month  
  day  
C13. updatefrequency: the frequency with which the collection is updated, e.g., "monthly"    
C14. metadataschema: the collection's metadata schema, e.g., "FGDC" or "USMARC"    
C15. samplemetadatarecord: a sample metadata record from the collection    

C16. termsandcondictions: the terms and conditions under which the collection may be used

   
C17. contribute: the human or institutional (preferably human) point of contact for the collection    
  (See appendix)  
C18. itemformathierarchy: the hierarchy used to categorize the items in the collection by format; 'id' uniquely identifies the hierarchy among all categorization hierarchies in the metadata    
  internalname: the format's internal name, e.g., "^ERDAS^^LAN^"  
  externalname: the format's external name, e.g., "ERDAS/Lan"  
  itemformat: a format of item in the collection and its subformats; 'id' uniquely identifies the format among all item formats  
C19. itemformatthesaurus: a reference to the thesaurus or authority list for the item format hierarchy    
C20. itemformatdescription: an informal description of the formats of items in the collection    
C21. adlsearchbuckets: ADL search buckets supported by the collection    
  name: the bucket's name, e.g., "Geographic location"  
  description: a description of the bucket's abstract semantics, e.g., "Supports searching by any geographic locations or regions associated with collection items."  
  metadatamapping: a description of how the collection's metadata is mapped to the bucket, e.g., "The ADL Catalog populates this bucket with..."  
  notes: additional notes on how the collection implements the bucket  
  domain: indicates the domain of the bucket; if the domain type is 'hierarchical', then 'hierarchy' should reference a hierarchical metadata element (e.g., 'item-type-hierarchy')  
  operators: bucket operators supported by the collection. e.g., "is-contained-in"  
C22. adlmetadataviews: ADL metadata views supported by the collection, e.g., "full."    
C23. alert: an important, timely message concerning the collection, e.g., "This collection is temporarily offline..."    
C24. itemcounts: collection item counts    
  computationdate: the date the counts were computed  
    year
    month
    day
  totalitemcount: the total number of items in the collection  
  itemcountbytype: the numbers of items in the collection, by item type  
  itemcountbyformat: the numbers of items in the collection, by item format  
C25. spatialcoverage: the spatial (geographic) coverage of the collection    
  computationdate: the date the coverages were computed  
    year
    month
    date
  overallspatialcoverage: the overall spatial coverage of the collection  
  spatialcoveragebytype: the spatial coverage of the collection, by item type  
  spatialcoveragebyformat: the spatial coverage of the collection, by item format  
C26. temporalcoverage: the temporal coverage of the collection    
  computationdate: the date the coverages were computed  
    year
    month
    date
  overalltemporalcoverage: the overall temporal coverage of the collection  
  temporalcoveragebytype: the temporal coverage of the collection, by item type  
  temporalcoveragebyformat: the temporal coverage of the collection, by item format