Since the Monthly Bulletin project has gotten funding from Indiana Memory, the digital project will now be housed within Indiana Memory. Like Idea, Indiana Memory uses Dublin Core, though, because they are within CONTENTdm, they have their own specific set of standards. The paper I will summarize briefly below is the Dublin Core Metadata Guide: Indiana Memory Project.
The paper began with a brief introduction to the ideas of required, recommended, and options elements. It also included links to other useful sites. Following this introduction the guide jumped right into the definitions of the required elements.
The required elements were: title, subject, item type, technical metadata, item ID, usage statement, data.original, and date.digital. The section on each of the elements included DC mapping, definition, comments, notes on cataloging, and examples. Some element definitions contained other information, such as subject, which contained a list of recommended thesauri and links for thesauri.
The definitions for recommened and optional elements contained the same information. Recommended elements were: creator, publisher, description and language. Optional elements included: ordering information, transcript, and local item ID.
Following the section on elements the paper also included and FAQ section. This covered a wide variety of topics ranging from What is Indiana Memory? to What are some other (not DC) descriptive metadata schemas? Though useful and interesting information could be found in the FAQ section, most of it was either information I already had, or information that did not relate to our specific project.
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