The Metadata of a Digital Archive - Struggling with the Fields
It is difficult to provide all relevant metadata for the archival material
without having spent more time with the poet's fonds. Still, I feel
the categories provided by Dublin Core are highly applicable to archival
material. I can foresee trouble with the "agents" fields however.
Photographs may have unidentified creators, or I may have to
cross-reference other materials in order to find out who the creators
were. Even in the case of the "photoshoot" image, there was no
identified photographer, although Brown did provide the name of the
studio where the images were developed. I'm still not clear on where the
creation of the digitized version is annotated. I wonder if
additional metadata should be added to call further attention to the
process of digitizing the media. Should this go in the "Contributor"
field? Perhaps the process of digitizing doesn't change the content of
the resource so much as the form, however certainly form
shapes a reader's encounter of the content to some extent. Perhaps I'm
not familiar enough with Dublin Core yet, but there doesn't seem to be a
field to represent the method by which media shifts take place.
The Metadata of a Digital Archive
Lingering Questions
without having spent more time with the poet's fonds. Still, I feel
the categories provided by Dublin Core are highly applicable to archival
material. I can foresee trouble with the "agents" fields however.
Photographs may have unidentified creators, or I may have to
cross-reference other materials in order to find out who the creators
were. Even in the case of the "photoshoot" image, there was no
identified photographer, although Brown did provide the name of the
studio where the images were developed. I'm still not clear on where the
creation of the digitized version is annotated. I wonder if
additional metadata should be added to call further attention to the
process of digitizing the media. Should this go in the "Contributor"
field? Perhaps the process of digitizing doesn't change the content of
the resource so much as the form, however certainly form
shapes a reader's encounter of the content to some extent. Perhaps I'm
not familiar enough with Dublin Core yet, but there doesn't seem to be a
field to represent the method by which media shifts take place.
The Metadata of a Digital Archive
Lingering Questions
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