Metadata Tier A

Metadata Tier A (Europeana website as a basic search platform)

The criteria for Metadata Tier A define the minimum requirements for records to be findable in the Europeana website. To make your collections more visible, at least 25% of the metadata elements that have been provided and are relevant, need to have at least one language tag. Additionally, the metadata should include at least one of the enabling elements taken from the Discovery and User scenarios.

1 Language
2 Enabling Elements
3 Contextul classes
4 Example record

Language

At least 25% of the metadata elements from ProvidedCHO that are relevant have at least one language qualified value. At least one of the following is true:

(1) a literal value (ie. String) that is language qualified (ie. xml:lang);

(2) a link (i.e. URI) to a contextual entity (only edm:Place, skos:Concept and edm:TimeSpan)

that is present in the record and has at least one language qualified skos:prefLabel (multiple occurrences are ignored once one language qualified value is found).

Metadata elements in edm:ProvidedCHO

dc:coverage
dc:description
dc:format
dc:relation
dc:rights
dc:source
dc:subject
dc:title
dc:type
dcterms:alternative
dcterms:hasPart
dcterms:isPartOf
dcterms:isReferencedBy,
dcterms:medium
dcterms:provenance
dcterms:references
dcterms:spatial
dcterms:tableOfContents
dcterms:temporal
edm:currentLocation
edm:hasType,
edm:isRelatedTo

Enabling Elements

At least one metadata element from one of the ‘Discovery scenario’ groups present in the edm:ProvidedCHO class

Browse by date or time-span	dcterms:issued, dcterms:created, dcterms:temporal, edm:hasMet (with a link to an edm:TimeSpan that is present in the record)
Discovery scenarios	Enabling elements
Browse by subjects and types	dc:subject (with a link to a skos:Concept), dc:format, dc:type, dcterms:medium
Browse by agents	dc:creator, dc:contributor, dc:publisher, dc:subject (with a link to a edm:Agent that is present in the record), edm:hasMet (with a link to a edm:Agent that is present in the record)
Browse by places	dc:subject (with a link to a edm:Place that is present in the record), dcterms:spatial, edm:currentLocation

Contextul classes

None is required for Metadata Tier:A

Example record

<rdf:RDF>
......
    <edm:ProvidedCHO rdf:about="#exampleMetA">
        <dc:title xml:lang="en">Metadata Example Record Tier A</dc:title>
        <dc:type>book</dc:type>
        <dc:language>deu</dc:language>
        <edm:type>TEXT</edm:type>
        <dcterms:isPartOf>Europeana Foundation Example Records</dcterms:isPartOf>
    </edm:ProvidedCHO>
    <ore:Aggregation rdf:about="#exampleMetA_AGG">
        <edm:aggregatedCHO rdf:resource="ark:/12148/bpt6k4773206h"/>
        <edm:dataProvider>Europeana Foundation</edm:dataProvider>
        <edm:isShownBy rdf:resource="http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLibrary/Partage/LoveArtNouveau/Glasgow/DSCF4092.JPG"/>
        <edm:provider>Europeana Foundation</edm:provider>
        <edm:rights rdf:resource="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-OKLR/1.0/"/>
    </ore:Aggregation>
</rdf:RDF>

For more details, see page Example records - content & metadata tiers .