Media Guidelines
Media Strategy
All media for this project should be: uploaded as a local or internet media file; assigned a title, description, and metadata following the below guidelines; and tagged on the digital collection page.Since the purpose of the thematic exhibits is to integrate interactive primary source material with original scholarship, media from the digital collection should be annotated, linked (displaying the title and description like the examples below), and/or visualized chronologically and/or spatially on the exhibit pages.
Title
Direction: The name given to the resource in its original language.
Example: Pro Universidad Marxista
Description
Direction: [Type of source] from [coverage] produced/written/created by [creator] featuring/discussing/depicting __________.
Example: Postage stamp from the Spanish Civil War produced by the Communist Party, featuring an image of Ana Pauker on the occasion of their 1938 national congress on solidarity.
Metadata Schema
All project media should be assigned the following Dublin Core terms (dcterms): Source, Date, Spatial, Format, Coverage, Creator. If information about a resource is unknown, leave the corresponding dcterms blank.dcterms: Source
Direction: Name of the website or archive that has digitized the resource, plus a link to the media file provided by the website or archive.Example: Special Collections & Archives UC San Diego, https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb73390190.
dcterms: Date
Direction: Date the original resource was created.Example: 1938
dcterms: Spatial
Direction: If the resource is associated with a specific place, provide GPS coordinates. You can search for coordinates using this website. Put the DD coordinates (separated by a ",") in Scalar's dcterms: spatial metadata field.Example: 41.65606, 0.87734
dcterms: Format
Direction: A description of the physical format of the original resource.Example: Audio recording, poster, interview, book, etc.
dcterms: Coverage
Direction: The spatial or temporal topic of the resource. For the purposes of this project select one of the following:Example: Spanish Civil War, Spanish Exile, Franco Dictatorship, Spanish Transition.
dcterms: Creator
Direction: Author, artist, or organization responsible for the creation of the original resource.Example: Generalitat de Catalunya