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Metadata Tier A

Metadata Tier A

Owned by Adina Ciocoiu
Last updated: Feb 07, 2024 by Henning Scholz
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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.

 

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

Discovery scenarios

Enabling elements

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)

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 .

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