Who creates the metadata?
The person(s) most knowledgeable about the collection – most likely a person in your organization creates the descriptive metadata. They will be trained by SENYLRC on how to create the metadata and what to include in each field of the Dublin Core metadata format. You may already have information about the original resource in some other location like a library online catalog or an archive automated system like the PastPerfect museum software. This information may be a starting place to build your metadata records for your collection. Whether you have information already in hand or you are describing items for the first time, CONTENTdm™ will help you create your Dublin Core metadata records. If you have data in a format that can be exported into a tab-delimited file (such as from PastPerfect), you can import that file into CONTENTdm™. If you do not have a file, then you can create your records using the CONTENTdm™’s metadata editor. It provides templates and other tools that allow you t
