Proposed list of metadata fields to drive the discovery and delivery of document level objects
MM Apr 5 2011: Needs more revision/refinement before end of April 21.
The following is a list of descriptive, technical and administrative metadata that may accompany a document in Hypatia. Documents can be either a single file or a grouping of files that are that exist together in either a folder, a zipped archive or a disk image. Not all documents will necessarily have metadata for all of these metadata fields.
Field Name |
Description |
Metadata Source |
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Repository |
Name of archival unit responsible for the collection. |
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collection call number |
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collection title |
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accession number |
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archival context |
Location of the document in an intellectual arrangement (series, subseries, etc.) |
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permissions / rights statement |
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source media |
Description of the physical carrier for a record (floppy disk, hard disk, etc.) |
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document title |
Title supplied by archivist describing the document |
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document date |
Is this the creation date or last modified date. Do we need both? |
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document type |
Controlled value list. Is this a text document, image, audio, video, forensic image etc. |
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file or document name |
Document or file name assigned to an object by an operating system |
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document location |
Location of the document on a filesystem. This is different from the archival location of a document in a series / subseries. |
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mime type |
The mime type indicates the type of document and may indicate the application that was used to create the document |
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document size |
Indicates the file or document's size on a filesystem |
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operating system and version (if known) |
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application software and version (if known) |
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thumbnail image |
image that represents the document type (eg. PDF, text, image etc.) |
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annotations ("stories") |
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archivist / user created tag |
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"Download" this |
button that allows the archivist or end user to download the document (if permitted) |
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checksum |
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droid PUID |
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