Metadata Project - Spring 2019

• 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!!!

• Element List on our project wiki

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. The name of our Resource Template is Metadata Course 2019
      2. NOTE: The Title and Description properties are already there
   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
4. Adding dropdown box functionality to your property (if needed) ... TWO STEPS:
   1. STEP 1: Create A New Custom Vocab for your property
      1. Click on the “Custom Vocab” in the left menu under the label of “MODULES”
      2. Click on “Add new vocab” at the top right corner
      3. Type in a title for your custom vocab in the field for “Label”
      4. Type in the terms you want to use for the custom vocab separated by new lines in the field for “Terms”
      5. Click “Submit” at the top right corner
   2. STEP 2: Use A Custom Vocab as the Data Type of a Property
      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. Click on the icon of small pencil to edit your property
      5. In the right side menu, find “Data type”, click on the small arrow, and then find your newly added custom vocab in the drop down menu
      6. Click on “Set changes” at the bottom, and then click on “Save” at the upper right corner.
5. Indexing your images (unfortunately, this can only be done after all properties are set up)
   1. Go to your item set
   2. Click on “View items” at the top right corner
   3. Click on one of the images
   4. Click on “Edit item” at the top right corner
   5. In the drop down menu for “Resource template”, select “Metadata Course 2019”
   6. You can start to index the image according to the template