Daylighting Image Archive Data Dictionary

Updated 8/25/00

 

Metadata Liaison: Kris Kinsey

Daylighting Field Name

Dublin Core Mapping

Authority file

Comments

Bldg Name(Public/Searchable)

 

Title

 

A brief descriptive phrase. The title is a concise phrase that will be used to label the thumbnails. TITLE may be the title given to the image by the contributor. Generally, it is a commonly used, specific identifying phrase. Some objects are not known by a specific name, but are still commonly identified by a generic name.

Examples (specific): Ashland Public Library

 

Bldg Location (Public/Searchable)

Coverage

LCAF

Includes the nation, the state, and the city where the object is located. Input in standard hierarchical form separated by a dash (equivalent to two hyphens).

Examples
United States—Washington (State)—Seattle

Bldg Type (Public/Searchable)

Subject

AAT Built Environment hierarchy (use plural form)

The physical or purposive form of the object (Note: this will generally be a building type)

Examples: schools; libraries; medical clinics

Architect (Public/Searchable)

Creator

 LCAF;

Person or body responsible for object design or people responsible for construction

Examples: Wright, Lloyd Frank; Aalto, Alvar; NBBJ (Firm)

Suggestion: Follow standard format of lastname, firstname for personal names

Date (Public/Searchable)

Coverage

 

Construction or renovation year(s) of the object

DATE will always be expressed as a year or range of years, never as a phrase (17th c.; 1970s) (as per Guide to Indexing and Cataloging with the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, App. A, Date and Geographic Name Guidelines)

 

Daylighting Notes (Public/Searchable)

Description

 

Example: Side-light clerestory;

             Side-light deep off-set

Orientation (Public/Searchable)

Description

 

Orientation of view

Examples: Northerly; Easterly

General Notes (Public/Non-Searchable)

Description

 

Descriptive narrative text that provides further background information, points of interest, lecture notes, etc.

Example: Excellent example of daylight space

Accession Number  (Public/Non-Searchable)

Identifier

 

A unique assigned slide identifier consisting of several digits (representing an accession number).

Examples: 000001

 

Photographer Name  (Public/Non-Searchable)

Creator

 

 

Creator of original visual image

Examples: Loveland, Joel

Suggestion: follow Lastname, Firstname format

 

Photographer Contact Notes  (Staff/Non-Searchable)

 

 

To be assigned

Copyright holder (Staff/Non-Searchable)

Rights

 

 

 

Transmission data (Public/Non-Searchable)

Format

 

Information about the original photograph and of the electronic conversion process

Includes information about original source format, machine used for conversion, and digital version details (file format, resolution, color)

Example: scanned from slide format using AFGA bulk scanner, tiff format converted to jpeg factor 32, 300-400 ppi

Suggestion: Develop standard form for this information as we do more

Suggestion: Drop this field if not found useful or incorporate FILE FORMAT into this field

 


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