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Metadata Application Profile for the Bayou City DAMS
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Update Description guidelines #14

Closed metaweidner closed 7 years ago

metaweidner commented 8 years ago
librarycard commented 8 years ago

Can description be repeatable?

metaweidner commented 8 years ago

It's listed as repeatable in the DPLA MAP, so we could change it to repeatable. What is the use case for having multiple descriptions?

librarycard commented 8 years ago

For instance, if there's a caption or inscription that's now being mapped to the description field

metaweidner commented 8 years ago

@librarycard I see captions and inscriptions as being folded into the text of the Description field, perhaps identified by a construction such as Inscription on back: "inscription text". That's the easiest path, and many of the Inscription and Caption fields in the UHDL legacy data already employ that construction for ease of migration. It seems like you're suggesting typed Description instances as in Description.content, Description.caption, Description.inscription, etc. Is that correct?

metaweidner commented 8 years ago

Better to map Inscriptions and Captions to Description than Note.

dulekde commented 8 years ago

I found UNT's entry on content description very helpful http://www.library.unt.edu/digital-projects-unit/quick-start-metadata-guide#description-content-description

amgaynor commented 7 years ago

If the title is the same as the description, do we need to repeat it in the description?

metaweidner commented 7 years ago

We should aim to keep the metadata as DRY as possible. Description should be used to add value to the metadata. It's OK to omit the Description field if it's only repeating what's recorded elsewhere.

amgaynor commented 7 years ago

@librarycard I can't remember, were you going to add any guidelines for preservation?

amgaynor commented 7 years ago

We talked about this a little bit at the Data Migration Working group. We're wondering if we should differentiate the components of the Description field in any particular way since it may include caption and inscriptions. In the Medieval Manuscripts collection different description section headings appear in all caps, e.g.

Ms. text includes: Proper of Season, Christmastide, Office at Matins, First and second nocturn. LAYOUT: 2 columns, ruled in lead, very faded (118 x 82 mm). Leroy 00D2, written in 31 lines below top line. SCRIPT: Gothic textualis.

So for us it might look something like this:

CAPTION on front: "Billy Jurges, a former big league shortstop, talking to infielder Sonny Jackson during a break for lunch at Apache Junction, Ariz., training camp."

It does visually differentiate it which could be helpful, but I don't know that I love it. It would be great to get some other feedback on this.

Also, regarding translations of captions or inscriptions, perhaps we could use this construction? (with/without all caps based on our decision): Caption below: "Antonio I. Villarreal candidato a senador." Caption below (English translation): "Antonio I. Villareal candidate for senator."

amgaynor commented 7 years ago

@lisacruces thanks for getting these notes from SC:

So many different kinds of standards could be applied. I’d say that would be preferable to apply an existing rule than to create a new one.

DCRM(B) 7A2. Punctuation says that one should “Start a new paragraph for each note. End each paragraph with a period or other mark of final punctuation….Separate introductory wording from the main content of a note by a colon followed by not preceded by a space.” DCRM(B) does not say to capitalize the introductory wording.

DCRM(G) appears to follow the same guidelines. I think there is other good guidance in there, too. Like 7B5.2. Picture captions, etc. “When the pictorial element of a single resource with text has a distinctive caption independent of the chosen title, give it in a note with an appropriate introductory word or phrase, if considered important.” Example “Picture caption: General view of the twelve colossal water proof canvas pavilions…”

amgaynor commented 7 years ago

Given this feedback, I'm inclined to say that captions and inscriptions will be recorded in the description field, but will not be differentiated by all caps. Unless there's any other feedback on this, I'll also just go with the translation construction I mention above.

Examples of Description field: