UWL MIG CONTENTdm Metadata Application Profile
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CONTENTdm collection alias: temp_alias_001

Created: 2022-07-21
Last updated: 2024-04-22
Metadata staff: Benjamin Riesenberg - ries07@uw.edu

Combined field list
Metadata-creation guidance: Oral histories
Field configuration details

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Combined property list

Use this order when configuring fields for the collection

KEY

Record values: Metadata-greation guidance for standalone items
Record values - CO: Metadata-greation guidance for compound objects
Record values - CO-item: Metadata-greation guidance for compound-object items
'default' may be used in place of a genre/form-term column heading in collections with only one category of resource, or for a general-purpose collection category.

For further information about compound objects and compound-object items, refer to Compound objects.

Field label	Field order	Oral histories	Field configuration
Title	1	Record values - CO Record values - CO-item	See details
Interviewee	2	Record values - CO	See details
Interviewer	3	Record values - CO	See details
Date (EDTF)	4	Record values - CO	See details
Date	5	Record values - CO	See details
Dates	6	Record values - CO	See details
Description	7	Record values - CO	See details
Subjects (LCSH)	8	Record values - CO	See details
Genre/Form (LCGFT)	9	Record values - CO	See details
Individuals Discussed	10	Record values - CO	See details
Organizations Discussed	11	Record values - CO	See details
Places Discussed	12	Record values - CO	See details
Geographic Coverage	13	Record values - CO	See details
Language	14	Record values - CO	See details
Digital Collection	15	Record values - CO Record values - CO-item	See details
Digital ID Number	16	Record values - CO Record values - CO-item	See details
Ordering Information	17	Record values - CO	See details
Rights URI	18	Record values - CO	See details
Restrictions	19	Record values - CO	See details
Repository	20	Record values - CO Record values - CO-item	See details
Institution	21	Record values - CO	See details
Type	22	Record values - CO Record values - CO-item	See details
Object Type	23	Record values - CO	See details
Extent	24	Record values - CO-item	See details
Digital Format	25	n/a	See details
Original Format	26	Record values - CO-item	See details
Cataloging	27	Record values - CO	See details
Digital Reproduction Information	28	Record values - CO	See details
Original File Name	29	Record values - CO	See details

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Metadata creation guidance: Oral histories > Compound objects and compound-object items

Oral histories > Compound objects

Oral histories > compound objects: Title
Property definition	A name for the resource.
Recording values	All compound objects must have a title. For interviews with individuals, construct as follows: [English First Name] [Japanese First Name] [(Maiden Name)] [Last Name] interview Include a maiden name if provided. Put the maiden name in parentheses. For interviews with two people, include both names and construct as follows: [English First Name] [Japanese First Name] [(Maiden Name)*] [Last Name] and [English First Name] [Japanese First Name] [(Maiden Name)] [Last Name] interview For group interviews (with 3 or more interviewees), input the name of the group as indicated on the video file. Individual interviewee names will be listed in the interviewee field.
Examples / well-formed values	Sally Sumeko Shirasago interview Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi interview Betty Hiroko (Fukuhara) Yoshioka interview Harue Koano Ozaki and Sam Saburo Ozaki interview Oakland Buddhist Church group interview
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Oral histories > compound objects: Interviewee
Property definition	A person interviewed.
Recording values	Enter the name of person(s) interviewed. Format personal names as follows: [Last Name], [English First Name] [Japanese First Name] [(Maiden name)] Include a maiden name if provided. Put the maiden name in parentheses. Separate multiple values with semicolons. UW Libraries cataloging staff: Retain name information entered by project metadata creators; do not replace with LCNAF forms of name.
Examples / well-formed values	Hattori, Fumi (Sato) Hayashi, June Mieko (Shirozu) Takasugi, Robert Mitsuhiro
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Oral histories > compound objects: Interviewer
Property definition	The person who interviewed the interviewee.
Recording values	Enter the name(s) of the person or persons who conducted the interview. Most interviews in this collection feature the same interviewers. For these, use the example values provided below. When appropriate, search the Library of Congress Name Authority File via id.loc.gov for the interviewer. If a potential match is found, confirm that it is the person associated with the resource. It may be helpful to review information included in the web display such as source(s) of information and occupation (for persons), and/or to follow the links provided for exact and/or closely matching concepts from other schemes. Copy the form of name as it appears at the top of the page, including dates. If no record exists, format personal names as follows: [Last Name], [First Name] Separate multiple values with semicolons.
Examples / well-formed values	Hanneman, Mary L. (Mary Louise); Hoffman, Lisa M. (Lisa Mae)
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Oral histories > compound objects: Date (EDTF)
Property definition	Prominent date for the resource, such as the date of creation of the original resource.
Recording values	Values entered for this property are not visible in the public interface. Record a value for the Date field prior to recording this value. Reformat the Date field value to express the value using the Library of Congress Extended Date Time Format (EDTF). The most recent version of EDTF is available online. Reformat the Date value as follows: If the value of Date is “YYYY”, enter “YYYY”. If the value of Date is “YYYY?”, enter “YYYY?”. If the value of Date is “[month] YYYY” enter “YYYY-MM”. If the value of Date is “[month] DD, YYYY”, enter “YYYY-MM-DD". If the value of Date is “between YYYY and YYYY”, enter “YYYY/YYYY”. If the value of Date is “between [month] YYYY and [month] YYYY”, enter “YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM”. If the value of Date is " between [month] DD, YYYY and [month] DD, YYYY”, enter “YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD". If the value of Date is “between YYYY and YYYY?”, enter “YYYY?/YYYY?”. If the value of Date is not as in any of the above examples, use the EDTF specification to format a value, and/or contact the collection manager or metadata liaison.
Examples / well-formed values	[If Date field is “2005”] 2005 [If Date field is “2005?”] 2005? [If Date field is “March 2005”] 2005-03 [If Date field is “March 11, 2005”] 2005-03-11 [If Date field is “between 2005 and 2006”] 2005/2006 [If Date field is “between January 2005 and February 2005”] 2005-01/2005-02 [If Date field is “between January 15, 2005 and February 01, 2005”] 2005-01-15/2005-02-01 [If Date field is “between 2005 and 2006?”] 2005?/2006?
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Oral histories > compound objects: Date
Property definition	Prominent date for the resource, such as the date of creation of the original resource.
Recording values	Enter the date on which the interview took place. This value will be used to create values for the Date (EDTF) and Dates fields. If the interview took place over a range of days, enter a range of dates, following the guidance below. Enter the date or date range using one of the following formats: YYYY YYYY? [month] YYYY [month] DD, YYYY between YYYY and YYYY between [month] YYYY and [month] YYYY between [month] DD, YYYY and [month] DD, YYYY between YYYY and YYYY? If the date of interview is unknown, enter an approximate date using either “YYYY?” or “between YYYY and YYYY?”.
Examples / well-formed values	2005 2005? March 2005 March 11, 2005 between 2005 and 2006 between January 2005 and February 2005 between January 15, 2005 and February 01, 2005 between 2005 and 2006?
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Oral histories > compound objects: Dates
Property definition	Prominent years for the resource, such as the date(s) of creation of the original resource; the expected value is a list of each and every pertinent year.
Recording values	Values entered for this property are not visible in the public interface. This field is indexed and enables searching by year in CONTENTdm, but values are not visible to users. Create a value for the Date field prior to creating this value. Reformat the Date field value according to the instructions below, entering date information as a year or years only. When the value of Date is “YYYY”, enter YYYY. When the value of Date is “YYYY?”, enter an eleven-year date range, with five years on either side of the uncertain date. Do not use commas or other punctuation to separate years. When the value of Date is “[month] YYYY”, enter the year only in the following format: YYYY. When the value of Date is “[month] DD, YYYY”, enter the year only in the following format: YYYY. When the value of Date is “between YYYY and YYYY”, enter all years in the date range as YYYY. Do not use commas or other punctuation to separate years. When the value of Date is “between YYYY and YYYY?”, enter all years in the date range as YYYY, plus five years before the earliest date and five years after the latest date. Do not use commas or other punctuation to separate years.
Examples / well-formed values	[If Date field is "2005"] 2005 [If Date field is "2005?"] 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 [If Date field is "March 2005"] 2005 [If Date field is "March 11, 2005"] 2005 [If Date field is "between 2005 and 2006"] 2005 2006 [If Date field is “between January 2005 and February 2005”] 2005 [If Date field is “between January 15, 2005 and February 01, 2005”] 2005 [If Date field is "between 2005 and 2006?"] 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
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Oral histories > compound objects: Description
Property definition	An account of the resource.
Recording values	Provide a brief summary of the interview. Write in present tense. Use the full name of the interviewee in the first sentence. For each subsequent mention of the interviewee's name, use only the last name. Include any key events, buildings, individuals, etc. that may have come up in the interview as appropriate.
Examples / well-formed values	Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi reflects on his childhood growing up in Tacoma and attending the Japanese Language school. Takasugi contrasts his experiences attending American public school with the Japanese Language School. In addition to covering family history, Takasugi recounts the moral and cultural lessons he received at the school and examines what it means to be Japanese.
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Oral histories > compound objects: Subjects (LCSH)
Property definition	The topic of the resource.
Recording values	University of Washington Libraries (UWL) cataloging staff will provide a value or values for this property. For initial metadata creation outside the UWL Cataloging and Metadata Services unit: Do not provide a value for this property. Be sure to provide the value 'xyz' for the Cataloging property to indicate to cataloging staff that a value is needed.
Examples / well-formed values	Hattori, Fumi--Childhood and youth Hattori, Fumi--Family Japanese Americans---Washington (State)--Tacoma Japanese Americans--History Japanese Americans--Ethnic identity Nihonga Gakka (Tacoma, Wash) Japanese langauge--Study and teaching Schools, Japanese--Washington (State)--Tacoma
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Oral histories > compound objects: Genre/Form (LCGFT)
Property definition	The genre or form of the resource, expressed using values selected from Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms.
Recording values	Use the following value taken from Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: Oral histories
Examples / well-formed values	Oral histories
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Oral histories > compound objects: Individuals Discussed
Property definition	Individuals given significant attention in the resource.
Recording values	Enter the name(s) of individual(s) mentioned. Format personal names as follows: [Last Name], [English First Name] [Japanese First Name] [(Maiden name)] Include a maiden name if provided. Put the maiden name in parentheses. Separate multiple values with semicolons. UW Libraries cataloging staff: Retain name information entered by project metadata creators; do not replace with LCNAF forms of name.
Examples / well-formed values	Yone, Nakako Yamasaki, Masato Hata, Jack
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Oral histories > compound objects: Organizations Discussed
Property definition	Organizations given significant attention in the resource.
Recording values	Enter the name(s) of organizations mentioned. When appropriate, search the Library of Congress Name Authority File via id.loc.gov for the organization. If a potential match is found, confirm that it is the organization associated with the resource. It may be helpful to review information included in the web display such as source(s) of information, and/or to follow the links provided for exact and/or closely matching concepts from other schemes. Copy the form of name as it appears at the top of the page, including dates. You may provide the value 'xyz' for the Cataloging property to indicate to cataloging staff that review of controlled forms of names is requested. If no record exists, enter the name(s) used by interviewees. Separate multiple values with a semicolon.
Examples / well-formed values	Tacoma Lumber Company; Superior Hotel; Stadium High School Methodist Church; Buddhist Church; Baptist Church Lincoln High School (Tacoma, Wash.) Japanese American Citizens' League Fort Lewis (Wash.) Airway Market
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Oral histories > compound objects: Places Discussed
Property definition	Geographic features given significant attention in the resource.
Recording values	Enter the names of geographic features which are given significant attention in the resource. Note that geographic features can be natural, artificial (human-caused), or abstract. For this collection, values for the element may include primarily buildings. Take forms of names from the Tacoma Public Library Online Digital Collections Tacoma-Pierce County Buildings Index where available. To record locations (cities, states, countries) discussed, do not use this element; use the Geographic Coverage element. Separate multiple entries with a semicolon and space (“; “).
Examples / well-formed values	Stadium High School Broadway Hotel Traveler’s Hotel McCarver Junior High School Lincoln High School Union Laundry
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Oral histories > compound objects: Geographic Coverage
Property definition	The spatial characteristics given significant attention in the resource.
Recording values	For initial metadata creation outside the UWL Cataloging and Metadata Services unit: Enter broad and local geographic locations given significant attention in the resource in natural language. Provide sufficient information to disambiguate place names as needed. As a rule, include more information rather than less. For example, when providing the name of a city, also provide state, region, and/or country names. Cataloging staff will use this information to create a structured value. Be sure to provide the value 'xyz' for the Cataloging property to indicate to cataloging staff that review is needed. Separate multiple entries with a semicolon and space (“; “). For UWL cataloging staff creating structured values: Forms of the names should be derived from the Library of Congress Authority File. Enter as follows: Country--State or Province--City For neighborhoods or other types of locales below the city level, enter an LCSH heading in the Subjects (LCSH) field. Separate multiple entries with a semicolon and space (“; “).
Examples / well-formed values	[Natural language value for review by cataloging staff:] Tacoma, Washington, USA [Structured value provided by cataloging staff:] United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
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Oral histories > compound objects: Language
Property definition	A language of the resource.
Recording values	Enter language names, fully spelled out, as they appear in the ISO 639 Code Tables "Language Name(s)" column. Separate multiple values using a semicolon and space (“; “). Order of values does not matter. Required for all compound objects.
Examples / well-formed values	English Japanese
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Oral histories > compound objects: Digital Collection
Property definition	Name of the digital collection.
Recording values	Enter the name of the digital collection the resource belongs to. Use the following value: Tacoma Japanese Language School Project
Examples / well-formed values	Tacoma Japanese Language School Project
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Oral histories > compound objects: Digital ID Number
Property definition	Unique number assigned to each digital object in CONTENTdm for identification purposes.
Recording values	Do not enter values for Digital ID Number. Digital ID Numbers will be assigned by ITS-DS staff when resources and metadata are loaded to the collection.
Examples / well-formed values	OHC0676 OHC0010
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Oral histories > compound objects: Ordering Information
Property definition	Instructions for ordering.
Recording values	Enter the following value: Reproductions are not available for order.
Examples / well-formed values	Reproductions are not available for order.
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Oral histories > compound objects: Rights URI
Property definition	URI that dereferences to a rights statement.
Recording values	Use the following value: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Examples / well-formed values	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
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Oral histories > compound objects: Restrictions
Property definition	Any restrictions on the use of a resource.
Recording values	Use the following value: This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. Permission must be obtained for any use or reproduction which is not educational and not-for-profit. Please contact the University of Washington Tacoma Library with any inquiries about use of the collection.
Examples / well-formed values	This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. Permission must be obtained for any use or reproduction which is not educational and not-for-profit. Please contact the University of Washington Tacoma Library with any inquiries about use of the collection.
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Oral histories > compound objects: Repository
Property definition	The institution holding the resource.
Recording values	Use the following value: University of Washington Tacoma Library
Examples / well-formed values	University of Washington Tacoma Library
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Oral histories > compound objects: Institution
Property definition	Information for the purpose of facilitating browsing in the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections online interface.
Recording values	Values entered for this property are not visible in the public interface. Values for this field are not visible to users, but they facilitate searching across collections within the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections. Enter the following value: uw tacoma digital collections
Examples / well-formed values	uw tacoma digital collections
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Oral histories > compound objects: Type
Property definition	Describes the nature or genre of the content of the resource.
Recording values	Values entered for this property are not visible in the public interface. Values for this property must come from the DCMI Type Vocabulary. For compound objects which feature an interview video, use the following value: MovingImage For compound objects which feature an interview audio recording, use the following value: Sound For compound objects which include both the video and audio versions of an interview, use the following value: MovingImage; Sound
Examples / well-formed values	MovingImage Sound MovingImage; Sound
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Oral histories > compound objects: Object Type
Property definition	The nature or genre of the resource.
Recording values	Enter the following value: oral histories Do not capitalize.
Examples / well-formed values	oral histories
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Oral histories > compound objects: Cataloging
Property definition	Messages for local catalogers.
Recording values	Values entered for this property are not visible in the public interface. Values for this field are not visible to users, but they facilitate work by UW Libraries cataloging staff. For metadata creation taking place outside the UWL Cataloging and Metadata Services unit: Enter "xyz" to request the creation and/or review of values for one or more of the following fields by UWL cataloging staff. Subjects (LCSH) Genre/Form (LCGFT) Geographic Coverage Interviewee Interviewer Individuals Discussed Organizations Discussed
Examples / well-formed values	xyz
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Oral histories > compound objects: Digital Reproduction Information
Property definition	Description of the digital conversion process, date scanned, etc.
Recording values	Use the following value: Original carriers were DVCAM tapes, standard definition 720x480 NTSC. DVCAM tapes digitized with a non-linear editing program, converted to .mov files using H264 compression.
Examples / well-formed values	Original carriers were DVCAM tapes, standard definition 720x480 NTSC. DVCAM tapes digitized with a non-linear editing program, converted to .mov files using H264 compression.
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Oral histories > compound objects: Original File Name
Property definition	The complete name including file extension of a digital file representing a resource to be described by one or more property/value pairs in CONTENTdm.
Recording values	Values entered for this property are not visible in the public interface. Provide the name of a file which is to be loaded as a CONTENTdm compound-object item. When entering values in a metadata spreadsheet, each row will describe either a compound object or compound-object item. A filename must be provided for every compound-object item. Filenames should not be provided for compound objects. For oral histories, compound-object items will be video files, audio files, and transcripts (PDF files).
Examples / well-formed values	shirasago_interview_video_001.mp4 shirasago_interview_audio_001.mp3 shirasago_interview_transcript_001.pdf
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Oral histories > compound-object items: Title
Property definition	A name for the resource.
Recording values	Construct compound-object item titles using the Title value for the compound object. For video files, construct as follows: [compound-object title], video For audio files, construct as follows: [compound-object title], audio For transcript files, construct as follows: [compound-object title], transcript In cases where more than one item of the same category (audio file, video file, etc.) is included in the compound object, add additional numbering as appropriate. If such items have a sequential relationship to one another, additional numbering should reflect the sequence. If the sequential relationship is known from an original carrier, this may be indicated along with additional numbering (see example values).
Examples / well-formed values	Sally Sumeko Shirasago interview, video Sally Sumeko Shirasago interview, audio Sally Sumeko Shirasago interview, transcript Oakland Buddhist Church group interview, video 1 Oakland Buddhist Church group interview, video 2 Oakland Buddhist Church group interview, transcript Betty Hiroko (Fukuhara) Yoshioka interview, audio, audiocassette side 1 Betty Hiroko (Fukuhara) Yoshioka interview, audio, audiocassette side 2 Betty Hiroko (Fukuhara) Yoshioka interview, transcript
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Oral histories > compound-object items: Digital Collection
Property definition	Name of the digital collection.
Recording values	Enter the name of the digital collection the resource belongs to. Use the following value: Tacoma Japanese Language School Project
Examples / well-formed values	Tacoma Japanese Language School Project
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Oral histories > compound-object items: Digital ID Number
Property definition	Unique number assigned to each digital object in CONTENTdm for identification purposes.
Recording values	Do not enter values for Digital ID Number. Digital ID Numbers will be assigned by ITS-DS staff when resources and metadata are loaded to the collection.
Examples / well-formed values	OHC0676-Video OHC0676-Transcript OHC0010-Audio-01 OHC0010-Audio-02 OHC0010-Transcript
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Oral histories > compound-object items: Repository
Property definition	The institution holding the resource.
Recording values	Use the following value: University of Washington Tacoma Library
Examples / well-formed values	University of Washington Tacoma Library
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Oral histories > compound-object items: Type
Property definition	Describes the nature or genre of the content of the resource.
Recording values	Values entered for this property are not visible in the public interface. Values for this property must come from the DCMI Type Vocabulary. For compound-object items which are video files, use the following value: MovingImage For compound-object items which are audio files, use the following value: Sound For compound-object items which are transcripts (document files), use the following value: Text
Examples / well-formed values	MovingImage Sound Text
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Oral histories > compound-object items: Extent
Property definition	Size or duration of the resource.
Recording values	For audio and video files, enter the runtime of the digital access file as hours (HH), minutes (MM), and seconds (SS). Format value as follows: HH:MM:SS For PDF files (transcripts), enter the number of pages using Arabic numerals. Format value as follows: 12 pages
Examples / well-formed values	00:12:58 22 pages
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Oral histories > compound-object items: Original Format
Property definition	File format, physical medium, and/or dimensions of the original resource.
Recording values	Values for Original Format must be taken from the RDA Carrier Type vocabulary. For oral histories, enter one of the following values depending on which compound-object item you are describing. For video files, use the following value: videocassette For audio files, use the following value: audiocassette For born-digital interview transcripts (.pdf or other document file formats), use the following value: online resource
Examples / well-formed values	videocassette audiocassette online resource
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