UNTL Metadata: Subject
 

 

Label

Subject and Keywords

Sub-Element

 

Definition

The subject or topic of the resource that succinctly describes the content of the resource, it expressed by headings, keywords, phrases, or names; or terms for significantly associated people, places, and events, etc.

Comment

Typically, a Subject will be expressed as keywords, key phrases or classification codes that describe a topic of the resource. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary or formal classification scheme. Formal classification schemes include Library of Congress Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification.  Established thesauri include Library of Congress Subject Headings, Art and Architecture Thesaurus, Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, etc.

Required

Yes

Repeatable

Yes

 

 Input guidelines:

·        Determine the subject content from the nature of the displayed resource, the Title, and any descriptive information on the page or in the source.

·        It is strongly recommended that subject words and phrases come from established thesauri or discipline-related word lists. See dropdown menu for the list of the major thesauri.

·        Choose the most significant and unique terms (as many or as few subjects as is needed) to cover the resource and facilitate discovery, avoid those too general to describe a particular item.

·        Do not repeat variations of terms, synonyms, case or tense variations, or alternate spellings.

·        Since subject elements describe both what the object is about and of course, what it is, some information that already listed in the other elements might be repeated:

§         For instance, a digital image that is a photograph could be given the subject term Photograph, which could be listed in the Type element as “image”.

§         Similarly, repeat the names of creators of the object, if the object is also about the creator. For example, a record for the autobiography of William Shakespeare would list Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 in both the Creator and the subject elements.

§         In the same way, although geographical terms normally handled by the Coverage - Place element, subject fields could include geographical terms as well.

Examples:

·        UNTL Images Collection
- Heritage; historical; paintings; photographs; art works; Second world war; Texas; pictorial works; postcards; posters; water colors; image
- "Pictorial works -- Texas"  -Source of term: (LCSH)
-"Texas Annexation to the United States" -Source of term:(LCSH);    

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