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Data Dictionaries (a.k.a. Schemas and Metadata Application Profiles or MAPS)

Click on a project or collection name below to access a text version of the collection-specific data dictionary, metadata application profile, or schema.

1. American Indians of the Pacific Northwest (Graphical)


2. American Indians of the Pacific Northwest (Textual)


3. Ancient Near East Image Archive


4. Architecture Collection Data


5. Central Eurasian Information Resource--Image Database


6. Central Eurasian Information Resource--Text Database


7. Cloud Seeding Collection


8. Early Washington Maps


9. Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection


10. Everett Massacre Collection


11. Freshwater and Marine Image Bank


12. Gente Sin Fronteras = People Without Borders


13. Milton Katims Audio Collection


14. King County Snapshots (Crossing Organizational Boundaries IMLS grant)


15. Moving Image Collections (Film Clips Only, UW Libraries' Special Collections)


16. Moving Image Collections (Full Films and Film Clips, UW Libraries' Special Collections)


17. Mt. St. Helens Post-Eruption Database


18. Mt. St. Helens Succession Collection


19. Music Library Manuscript Collection


20. Pacific Northwest Sheet Music : from the Ashford Collection


21. Pamphlet and Textual Data Dictionary


22. Plants of Western Washington Collection


23. Special Collections Photograph Collections


24. Tahirler Project


25. Thai Journal Index


26. Tony Landreau Collection on Turkish Carpet Weaving and Village Life


27. the Urban Archives


28. UW Image Bank


29. Walter B. Denny Islamic Art Slides Archive


30. William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection


31. WTO History Project

Other Resources

Support for Digital Projects

• Data dictionary template: for use by digital projects drafting their own data dictionary.

Authority Files

• American Society of Indexers Thesauri online
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Library of Congress Authorities (LC): search Subject Authorities and Name Authorities. This is the Library of Congress's own file and is updated daily by records contributed by libraries in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging.
• Library of Congress National Authority File (displayed using DRA): search for Library of Congress Subject Headings or for Library of Congress authorized forms for names (use Author or Subject search). This file appears to be updated monthly.
• Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, Library of Congress (combines both thesauri formerly known as TGM I and TGM II).
• Union List of Artist Names

Metadata element sets

• Dublin Core
• Qualified Dublin Core in DSpace (the digital repository software used to power University of Washington's ResearchWorks site)
• Visual Resources Assoc. Core Categories 4.0