BHL Metadata

BHL Metadata Requirements

Metadata Working Groups & Topics

• Standards for Bibliographic Item Description (Enumeration and Chronology formats etc.)
• Discovery Tools Working Group
• BHL in OCLC
• BHL in EBSCO
• Google Doc Folder

Archived Links

• BHL Digitization Specifications March 3, 2010 BHL Digitization Specifications.doc
  • This document provides a minimum specification for the supply of metadata and digital image files to the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) portal.
• Specifications for Citebank Contributors Jan 25, 2011 Specifications for Citebank contributors.pdf, see more about CiteBankhere
  • This document provides a minimum specification for the supply of metadata and digital content files (e.g. pdfs) to Citebank.
• Rights information in Citebank Rights metadata in Citebank 2011_05_10.doc, see more about CiteBankhere
  • This document provides information about what rights metadata will be recorded for each hosted content file in Citebank and how rights metadata should be mapped from the portal>citebank>fedora (note this is not meant to be a public document but is used for internal purposes only)
• CrossWalks.xls between various metadata schemas from title level down to page level (last updated 07 September 09 1:50 EST) IF you plan on working on adding information - please note that you have "checked out" the document for editing so all will know that the version on the Wiki will be updated when you load it back. Thanks!
• Crosswalk provided by Getty, mapping between various object and archival formats. (Getty's crosswalk focuses greatly on the collection and description of OBJECTS in collections (e.g.art pieces) - and archival collections (e.g. manuscripts, letters, unique items stored together). It also shows coding standards and rules for description to use in the fields DACs (Describing Archives Collection standards - used for archival collections (linear feet of stuff)), EAD (Encoding Archival Description - used for archives to create finding aids to those linear feet of stuff), etc.
• Indexes for searching data: Search Types and the MARC fields they should it.IndexAssignments.xls
  • Searching indexes - showing results suggested weightings ResultsOfSearchWeightingRelevance.xls
• OCLC Synchronization with BHL
• MARC field proposal for copyright information
• Bowker information regarding ISBNs
• Authority work - and schemas
  • Encoding Archival Context: Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (<EAC-CPF>) http://eac.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/
  • Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) - http://viaf.org/
  • Library of Congress Authority files - http://authorities.loc.gov/
  • MARC Format for Autority records - http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/nlr/nlr.html
• Linked/Open Data resources page

Other BHL Wikipages of interest:

More Historical Documents:

• Cross-System linking discussion (2008)
• Library of Congress discussions with Smithsonian and BHL July 2007
• Conference call with Sebastian Hammer (Index Data) re: MetaKey & what Index Data can do for BHL, March 20, 2007 Call with Sebastian Hammer_edit.doc
• Questions and Concerns for the OCLC Collection Analysis Tools as Applied to BHL
• Collections Analysis Conference Call, March 8, 2007BHL_OCLC Analysis Phone Call.doc
• Metadata Respository Notes from Harvard BHL Meeting February 2007
• MBLWHO BHL Proof of Concept Taxonomic Intelligence - Universal Biological Indexer and Organizers
  • Test of Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries
• Kew BHL extract v2.doc
• NYBGBHL Extraction.doc
• BHL Metadata Discussion (2006 and not used)
• **NHM Subject Mappings
• BHL Metadata Requirements (2005)
• BHL Metadata Repository Proposal (2006)
• Notes on Metadata from SIL (2005)
• NHM SIL prototype union catalogue
• Repository Needs Draft (2006)
• Deep Thoughts (2006)
• SIL Conversation with JStor
• OCLC's Brian Lavoie Initial Analysis of Merged Metadata
• overlap.xls Brian Lavoie's Overlap analysis August 2006
• Seriality: How to Determine Volume, Issue, Page level information for serials
• Penn State's first stab at our Serial Problems
• California Digital Library helpful hints and documentation
• SIL's Master Bibliography template and instructions
  • MSAccess File (Tables and Suggested forms)MasterBibliography.mdb
  • Word Documentation Procedures Master Bibliography.doc