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Image Metadata Scheme

The image metadata scheme is an adaptation of an extended Dublin Core-based scheme developed by Jane Hunter, a renowned expert on multimedia indexing from Australia's Distributed Systems Technology Centre. The scheme has been qualified and extended to meet the Centre's unique requirements, which include outputting records in other metadata standards and tracking relationships among levels and types of metadata. For more information, please refer to the Cataloguing Procedures Manual.


Element
Label

Element Description

Dublin Core
Elements

Dublin Core Base Semantics with ETC qualifiers
DC.Title A name given to the resource.
Qualifiers: .alternative
DC.Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource.
Qualifiers: .name
.type
.role
DC.Subject The topic of the content of the resource, typically expressed in keywords, key phrases, or classification codes that describe a topic of the resource.
DC.Description An account of the content of the resource, which may include an abstract, table of contents, or free text.
DC.Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available.
DC.Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the content of the resource.
Qualifiers: .name
.type
.role
DC.Date The date the resource was made available in its present form. Recommended best practice is an 8 digit number in the form YYYY-MM-DD as defined in http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime, a profile of ISO 8601.
Qualifiers: .created
.recordCreated
DC.Type The nature or genre of the content of the resource.
Type should be chosen from an enumerate list recommended by the Dublin Core Type Working Group. See http://purl.org/DC/documents/wd-typelist.htm for the type list for simple Dublin Core.
DC.Format The physical or digital manifestation of the resource. Format should be chosen from an enumerated list such as the IANA media types: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types
Qualifiers: .fileSize
.dimensions
.colourdepth
DC.Identifier A reference to the resource within a given context e.g. URL, URI, ISBN, filename, etc.
DC.Source Information about a resource from which the present resource is directly derived. Use a text value of the title or name of a resource from which the present resource is directly derived, plus the identifier, if known, to isolate it.
DC.Language The language of the intellectual content of the resource.
DC.Relation A reference to a related resource.
Qualifiers: .hasFormat
.isFormatOf
.isPartOf
DC.Coverage
 The extent or scope of the content of the resource. Typically it includes spatial location, temporal period, or jurisdiction.
Qualifiers: .periodName
.placeName
DC.Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource, typically an identifier that links to a rights management or usage statement.

 
 

ETC Extensions
ETC Base Semantics
ETC.AltID A pointer to an alternate identifier; this could be used to link separate databases.
ETC.Capture The equipment used to capture a digital image.
ETC.CD A pointer to the CD Rom on which an image resides.
ETC.Dimensions The physical dimensions of a resource, expressed in whatever unit is appropriate to the resource.
ETC.FileName Since a .jpg has both a URL and a filename, ETC.fileName is used to identify and locate it on CD.
ETC.Location A CD Rom's physical location.
ETC.Relation A provisional element that relates a cropped jpeg to its uncropped source image. It also flags cropped jpegs.
ETC.Sequence An image's position in relation to a sequence of images associated with a parent object.
ETC.Type An extended type for finer grained searching.
ETC.Unit The source image's type within the context of a print document; e.g. "Page 1", "Cover", etc.

 

TEI Extensions
TEI Semantics
ETC.Note Collects together any notes providing information about a text or its digital treatment additional to that recorded in other parts of the bibliographic description.

 

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