Digital Collections Metadata Dictionary
DC term: Title | Vocabulary: N/A
Definition: The name given to the object, describing the nature of the object.
Input guidelines: The name given to the image by the creator or publisher; may also be an identifying phrase or name supplied by the contributing institution. Be brief. Reserve a more expansive description for the Description field.
| Text | Buffalo Physician |
| Image | Love Canal protesters, including children, march carrying signs |
| Sound | Lecture and poetry reading by Amiri Baraka at Buffalo State College |
| Moving image | Western New York Nuclear Research Center |
DC term: Subject | Vocabulary: LCSH; LCNAF; AAT; TGM; MeSH; VIAF; local
Definition: What the content of the resource is about or what it is, expressed by headings, keywords, phrases, names, or other terms.
Input guidelines: If there is a compound subject that you need to retain, include two hyphens and no spaces between terms. Separate terms within one field with a pipe [|] and no spaces.
| Text | World War, 1939-1945|School yearbooks |
| Image | State University of New York at Buffalo--Students--History--20th century |
| Sound | University of Buffalo. Department of History--History|Capen, Samuel Paul, 1878-1956 |
| Moving image | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) |
DC term: Description | Vocabulary: N/A
Definition: An account of the content of the resource [providing background and specifics about it.
Input guidelines: Be succinct, with 2-3 sentences used depending on the nature of the item being described.
| Text | Publication of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences covering activities at the school, profiles of faculty and students, and research updates. |
| Image | Adults and children marching and carrying signs protesting government response to Love Canal environmental disaster. |
| Sound | Recording of a lecture and poetry reading by Amiri Baraka at Buffalo State College. Baraka lectures about African American culture in the United States. He ends the event by reading three poems. Recorded by Allen De Loach for the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection. |
| Moving image | Silent color film of the Western New York Nuclear Research Center construction on Main Street (South) campus. |
DC term: Creator | Vocabulary: LCNAF; ULAN; VIAF; VIAF; local
Definition: An entity primarily responsible for creating the intellectual content of the object
Input guidelines: Enter personal names in inverted form: Last Name, First Name, Middle Name or initial (include birth and death dates if known). Do not use honorifics, titles, or nicknames unless it is necessary to disambiguate (e.g., the first name of the person is unknown). Separate terms within one field with a pipe [|] and no spaces. Do not use "Unknown"—just leave the field blank.
| Text | Joyce, James, 1882-1941 |
| Image | Ploughman, Penelope, 1955- |
| Sound | Carter, Margaret, 1921- (Narrator) |
| Moving image | State University of New York at Buffalo. Department of Media Study |
DC term: Source | Vocabulary: LCNAF; ULAN; VIAF; VIAF; local
Definition: A related resource from which the described resource is derived, i.e., the host repository. Best practice is to identify the related resource by means of a URI or a string conforming to a formal identification system.
Input guidelines: Consult the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) or other thesauri for the correct form of the name. Include the URI.
DC term: Publisher | Vocabulary: N/A
Definition: An entity responsible for making the digital object available, in this case, University at Buffalo Libraries
Input guidelines: Consult the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) or other thesauri for the correct form of the name. The default publisher name for all UB digital collections is "State University of New York at Buffalo. University Libraries"
DC term: Date | Vocabulary: ISO 8601-1 or EDTF
Definition: Creation date for the original resource from which the digital object was derived or created.
Input guidelines: Separate date ranges, i.e. 1960-1965, with a "/": 1960/1965. If the creation date is unknown, do your best to estimate the date range. If the date range cannot be estimated, leave the field blank.
| Text | 1996 [ISO], 1996-22 [EDTF] |
| Image | 1979-04 |
| Sound | 1970-04-24 |
| Moving image | 1962/.. [ISO], 1962? [EDTF] |
DC term: Contributor | Vocabulary: LCNAF; ULAN; VIAF; VIAF; local
Definition: The person(s) or organization(s) that made significant intellectual contributions to the resource but whose contribution is secondary to any entity already specified in a creator element.
Input guidelines: Enter personal names in inverted form: Last Name, First Name, Middle Name or initial (include birth and death dates if known). Do not use honorifics, titles, or nicknames unless it is necessary to disambiguate (e.g., the first name of the person is unknown). Separate multiple contributors with a pipe [|] and no spaces. Do not use "Unknown"—just leave the field blank. Use a relator term enclosed in parentheses to clarify the contributor’s relationship to the work. Relator terms can be found on the MARC Code List for Relators, available at: https://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html.
| Text | Smith, John (Writer) |
| Image | Lacy, Bob (Graphic Designer) |
| Sound | WBFO (Radio station : Buffalo, N.Y.) |
| Moving image | Smith, Jane (Videographer) |
DC term: Rights | Vocabulary: rightsstatements.org
Definition: Information about rights held in and over the resource.
Input guidelines: Use the URIs from rightsstatements.org. If the contributing repository has text in this field, use a single pipe [|] with no spaces to separate the URI and the text.
| Text | IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). |
| Image | IN COPYRIGHT: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). |
| Sound | NO COPYRIGHT – UNITED STATES: The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. |
| Moving image | COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED: The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. This digital collection is made available for research and educational purposes. Researchers are responsible for determining copyright status, and securing permissions for use and publication of any material. Copyright for items in this collection may be held by the creators, their heirs, or assigns. Researchers are required to obtain written permission from copyright holders and the University Archives prior to reproducing or publishing materials, including images and quotations. For inquiries about reproduction requests and permissions, please contact the University Archives. |
DC term: Format | Vocabulary: Internet Media Type
Definition: The Internet Media Type (aka MIME type) of the digital resource. Format is used to describe the software, hardware, or other equipment needed to display or operate the resource.
Input guidelines: Select a term from the Internet Media Types list [MIME].
| Text | application/pdf |
| Image | image/jpeg |
| Sound | audio/mp3 |
| Moving image | video/mp4 |
DC term: Language | Vocabulary: ISO 639-2
Definition: Indicates the language(s) of the intellectual content of the resource. This implies the language(s) in which a text is written or the spoken language(s) of an audio or video resource. Visual images do not usually have a language unless there is significant text in a caption or in the image itself.
Input guidelines: If multiple languages are represented, use a single pipe [|] and no spaces to separate the terms.
| Text | eng |
| Image | eng |
| Sound | ger |
| Moving image | chi |
DC term: Type | Vocabulary: DCMI Type Vocabulary [DCMI-TYPE]
Definition: The nature or genre of the resource.Input guidelines: Assign a value based on the DCMI type vocabulary to describe the resource
| Text | Text |
| Image | Image |
| Sound | Sound |
| Moving image | Movingimage |
DC term: Identifier | Vocabulary: N/A
Definition: A character string or record number that clearly and uniquely identifies a digital object or resource. This element ensures that individual digital objects can be accessed, managed, stored, recalled, and used reliably.
Input guidelines: Filename of the digital object, without the file extension.
| Text | MS-0262_4_1_001 |
| Image | MS-170_34_005 |
| Sound | WBFO0824 |
| Moving image | RG9-12-1231_7 |
Term: File Name with Extension | Vocabulary: University Archives file naming standards
Definition:
Input guidelines: Follow the best practices of the repository from which the items originates.
| Text | LIB-HSL008_v30n04-1996-Autumn.pdf |
| Image | MS100.278.tiff |
| Sound | lib-pc002-INT058.mp3 |
| Moving image | LIB-UA020-Film0196.mp4 |
DC term: Date Created | Vocabulary: ISO 8601-1 or EDTF
Definition: Date the resource was digitized.
Input guidelines: If the date created is unknown, leave the field blank.
DC term: Is Part Of | Vocabulary: N/A
Definition: A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Input guidelines: The name and identifier for the digital collection that this resource is from.
DC term: Is Part Of | Vocabulary: N/A
Definition: A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.
Input guidelines: The name and identifier for the physical collection that the resource is from. Finding aid is preferrable; for publications, the catalog record is appropriate. Text with a URI link.
DC term: Temporal Coverage | Vocabulary: LCSH; LCNAF; AAT; TGM; MeSH; VIAF; local
Definition: Time period covered by the intellectual content of the resource, not the date of publication
| Text | Nineteen nineties |
| Image | Nineteen seventies |
| Sound | Nineteen seventies |
| Moving image | Nineteen sixties |