Copyright

All items have clearly stated rights or usage statements. See Digital copyright workflow

Metadata

• Metadata is provided in dublin core (qualified) syntax

• Collection application profile is documented on wiki and applied consistently across all items. See Best Practices for Qualified Dublin Core for general guidance.
  

• Data created following Best Practices for Globally Shareable Metadata. For example:

• Do not use square brackets or any other markup normally used in AACR2 to indicate missing or incorrect information.

• Do not add any ending punctuation at the end of titles(1), names or subjects.

• Do not use abbreviations. Please spell out words completely.

• Do not use null values [e.g. n/a or n.d. (2)] just leave field blank.

• Use Date ISO 8601 format for date specific fields. see W3C-DTF http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

• Recommended to populate dc.date.issued for searching purposes. May use broad year if exact date is not known (e.g. 1900 for date range 19th century)
  

• for more please see Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata (OAIBP)

• dc.identifier.digital must equal prefix of filenames

Digital files

filenames

Consistent filenames = Unique alphanumeric sequence. Uses prefix/suffix logic. No spaces, all lowercase, no special characters. See best practices on file naming conventions.

formats

• Use recommended formats : Images = masters (tiffs), Access (jpg/jp2) | Text: access = OCR’d PDFs. See chart on preferred formats

• Files created at recommends specs (e.g. 300ppi, 24 bit)

• Digital capture follows best practices for “Faithful reproduction” benchmarks. see Quality control checks for images

embedded metadata

Embed metadata for both masters and access versions. See Embedded Image Metadata