Week 3- Oops! All meta data (RICHES guidebook)
This week aside from setting up appointments with Howard's Librarian and a fellow graduate student for learning how to use the CHDR's large scale scanner this week has been spent looking at the RICHES guide book. This informational book is a hefty 58 page book explaining what RICHES is, how it works and how it does metadata. This includes description of each field (description, subject,type ect.) how it's used and how you need to input the data/information for each field. Img.1: the description meta data field with the introduction text explaining what it is, following paragraphs explain how the Library of Congress uses such information to filter search results. In Dublin core there are 15 elements to consider, some easier than others such as the title of the image or just the description. But when dealing with older items certain things such as the author/creator or publisher can be difficult to find, maybe the author's name got cut out when the news paper clipping ...