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