[Metadatalibrarians] Help for a beginner

[Platt, Alice]

Hi Aimee,

I'm afraid I'm not aware of similar projects, but I would imagine that a transcription of what is written in the digitized document should go in the Description element, because it helps to describe the document. The theory behind using a subject heading is to group materials together that have similar subject matter or names associated with them; other than perhaps using the officiant name as a subject keyword, that purpose would not be achieved by listing the names as separate subject entries... unless, of course, a lot of the people at the Mission got remarried several times! ;-)

Alice Platt
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Shapiro Library
Southern New Hampshire University
2500 North River Rd
Manchester, NH 03106
603-668-2211 x 2156

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:51:56 -0700
From: "Aimee Algier" <AAlgier at scu.edu>
Subject: [Metadatalibrarians] Help for a beginner
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Here at Santa Clara University we are scanning the pages of baptismal and marriage records of the Mission Santa Clara. Some of the entries are not legible so we have created an excel spreadsheet with the names of the brides and grooms and officiants, with a column for the dates.

Can anyone recommend some sites that have done similar projects that I could look at? The metadata needs to be crosswalked to Dublin Core and are just duplicated entries of what is being scanned. I am tempted to put the brides, grooms and officiants in a subject element. If I do, is there any way to distinguish what kind of subjects they are with different labels? Bride  Groom Officiant (or is the subject element restricted to one label?)

Any help you can give me would be appreciated.

Thank you,



Aimee Algier
Head of Technical Services
Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center and Orradre Library
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
TEL: 408.554.5556
FAX: 408-551-1805
aalgier at scu.edu


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