Metadata Project - Spring 2019

• Sample Images for Spring 2019 Indexing Project: ACCESS TO IMAGES (click on individual image to increase size)

• Sample Indexing Guidelines from around the web:
  • Dublin Core Element List (from Dublin Core)
  • UNT Input Guidelines for Descriptive Metadata
  • UW Metadata Guideline for Collections using ContentDM
  • Digital NC: Describing Digital Materials
  • Add more!!!

Omeka S Software overview

• General information and reference: Omeka S User Manual
• We will be using Omeka S's Resource Template option for two purposes:
  • To implement our application profile within the software
  • When indexing each image

Project steps

1. Developing application profile part 1: What properties are in our application profile?
   1. This resulted in our Element List
   2. Mediawiki editing assistance
2. Developing application profile part 2: What are the details of your assigned property, including its indexing steps?
   1. This information is recorded in our Element List
3. Transferring your approved property details from our Project Wiki to our Omeka S instance by way of their "Resource Template" software functionality
   1. All students will need to establish their property within our project's Resource Template
      1. NOTE: The Title and Description properties are already there
      2. The name of our Resource Template is Metadata Course 2019
   2. Steps for adding your Property to the Template:
      1. Click on the “Resource Templates” in the left menu under the label of “RESOURCES”
      2. Click on the template with the label “Metadata Course 2019”
      3. Click on “Edit resource template” at the upper right corner
      4. Find your property in the right side menu and add it to the template
      5. Additional information about how to customize your property in our Omeka S instance based on your property's Wiki information that you developed:
         1. Review relevant sections of Omeka S User Manual, specifically, scroll down to these subsections:
            1. Property options
            2. Edit a resource template
         2. Review Omeka S video on Resource Templates in Omeka S
      6. Adding dropdown box functionality to your property