Metadata Guidelines

Owned by Mary Haegert
Last updated: Jan 10, 2024
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These are general guidelines around depositing patron requests.

Depositing Digital Images

What is deposited?

  • Whole objects regardless of copyright status

What is not deposited?

  • Anything that is not a whole object

Structural (PDS) Metadata

This is required when there are multiple images from a single item that need to be made into a “page turning” digital object: a book; a 4-page letter, etc. 

When to use Structural Metadata?

  • Simple Structural Metadata is used for almost all requests, even single images.
  • Complex Structural Metadata is used when the object will contain nodes.



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