Metadata Guides

Arca Metadata Guidelines

• Arca Metadata Guidelines - developed by the Arca Implementation Working Group, and still a work in progress.

Other Metadata Guides

Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)

MODS is the native Islandora metadata schema, but it can be mapped to many other schemas.

• MODS Official Website
• MODS User Guidelines
• MODS Top-level Elements and Attributes
• MODS Full Record Examples - examples of MODS records for a digitized book, photograph and journal article
• DLF Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS - Digital Library Federation's recommendation for implementing MODS; SFU may be following this approach for their Islandora repositories; provides examples of MODS records for books, films, maps, photographs, prints, sheet music, physical artifacts, and born digital items.
• EAD to Aquifer MODS Crosswalk

Controlled Vocabularies

Best practices for controlled vocabularies

• COAR Application Profiles and Controlled Vocabularies

Linked Open Data (LOD)

LOD may be a way to expose BC IRN metadata for discovery further down the road.

• What is Linked Open Data? - Short promotional video by the Europeana project.
• Linked Open Data: The Essentials - A Quick Start Guide for Decision Makers
• Linked Open Data Resources on the Web
• Linked Open Data and Libraries: The Story So Far

LOD Implementations

• Oregon Digital - Digital collections of Oregon State University and the University of Oregon Libraries
• BBC Things website - Read the blog post about it here

Metadata Best Practices - General

• OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices by Heather Lea Moulaison, Felicity Dykas and Kristen Gallant, University of Missouri D-Lib Magazine March/April 2015 Volume 21, Number 3/4. Examines the repository systems and current practices of metadata in the responses of 23 repositories.

• Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications 2014-2015 - Recommended Format Specifications are hierarchies of the physical and technical characteristics of creative formats, both analog and digital, which will best meet the needs of all concerned, maximizing the chances for survival and continued accessibility of creative content well into the future. *Includes suggested Metadata for each format.