Mt. St. Helens Succession Collection

Data Dictionary/Mt. St. Helens Succession Collection
1/9/99

Metadata Liaison: Kelly Mecifi

Text

Dublin Core

Comments

Title

Title

Dr. Roger del Moral assigns all titles
In the case of plant slides, title will be the scientific name of the plant.  The common name will appear in the subject area no matter which is in LCSH.

Photographer

Creator

Dr. Roger del Moral

Publisher

Publisher

University of Washington, Department of Botany

Event Date

Date

Date the photo was taken.  Expressed yyyy-mm-dd

Site location

Coverage

The view or area shown in the slide
More or less a geographic designation of some sort

Notes

Description

Can include any information of importance not represented elsewhere.

Subjects

Subjects

Keywords or phrases describing the content of photo provided by Dr. del Moral

Subjects

Subjects

Authorized LC subject headings

Coverage

Coverage

For cross database searching.
United States -- Washington (State) -- Saint Helens, Mount

Source

Source

Mount St. Helens Succession Collection

Slide ID Number

Resource Identifier

String of numbers and letters unique to each slide.
Usually refer to specific plot any year.

Accession Number

Resource Identifier

Assigned to erach image as it is saved after scanning.
MSH-1 through MSH-237.

Copyright statement

Rights

Standard statement here.

Publication date

Date

Date we scanned the image, 1999-04 in all cases.

File Format

Format

JPEG (.jpg)

Type

Type

Use "StillImage" from the DCMI Type Vocabulary.

There is no corresponding element to either the original creator, photographer's reference number or to the negative number.

There is also no corresponding element to the date field.  The regular date field will be searchable.

No physical description is needed.