UNTL Metadata: Title

Input guidelines:

• The title should be transcribed exactly from the resource as it displays to the user. The source include:
      -IMAGE: title on back of photo or on slide casing; title on container;
      -TEXT: title page, cover;
      -VIDEO: title screen video, label on video tape/disc, container of video ;
      -SOUND: title on disc/cassette label ; title on container ;
      -COMPUTER FILE: title screen, title at top of page, title in HTML header.

·   Do not use the file name, call number or other identification schemes as a resource title.

·  Create a title if none exists (italicized under square bracket […]). This will happen frequently for photographs, slides, and video that were not previously published. Make the title as descriptive as possible.

·   If in doubt about what constitutes the title, use a title found in reference sources and repeat the Title  and include the variants in alternative Titles (1.1 - 1.6).

·    Create alternative titles for any way in which you think a patron may try to search the item that is different from its primary title. This may include a parallel title in a different language, a shortened form of the title, etc (1.1 - 1.6). Follow the same rules as described in Title above.

• If multiple items have been assembled onto the same record, create a title that is as descriptive as possible of the contents. See also Collection element.
• If the title or alternative title has been created then use the punctuation that would be appropriate for English writing, (i.e. capitalize the first word in the title and all proper names such as personal and place names). In general, transcribe titles and subtitles from the source using the same punctuation that appears on the source.
• Exclude initial articles from titles and alternative titles since using or beginning a title with these words, (a, an, das, der, die, el, la, le, los, the, etc.) will affect sorting and display. (Exceptions, if the article is an essential part of the title or the system requires use of initial articles.

Examples:

              Title – from Cover title
                 -General Sam Houston's inaugural address after being sworn in as president of the republic of Texas before the first session of Congress at Columbia, Texas

Title – from label on video.
    -Power and Influence: Adolph Hitler in our times [a single 74 minute videorecording]

Title – from Web Page– (UNTL Images Collection)
    -Images from the Dennis Collections

Title – from HTML title tag– (UNTL Images Collection)
    -Images from the Dennis Collections, University of North Texas Library

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