Sample Metadata Record
<olac:olac>
<dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator>
<dc:date>1970</dc:date>
<dc:description>slips in cardboard box; no clue to language or collector</dc:description>
<dc:description>condition: good</dc:description>
<dc:format>file slips, verifaxed</dc:format>
<dc:identifier>http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/Survey/survarch.html#AA.001</dc:identifier>
<dc:subject xsi:type="olac:language">none (family=::; stock=::)</dc:subject>
<dc:type>morphology; syntax</dc:type>
</olac:olac>
| Creator | anonymous |
| Date | 1970 |
| Description | slips in cardboard box; no clue to language or collector |
| Description | condition: good |
| Format | file slips, verifaxed |
| Identifier | http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/Survey/survarch.html#AA.001 |
| Subject (ISO639-3) | [], none (family=::; stock=::) |
| Type | morphology; syntax |
OLAC metadata records are scored for metadata quality on a 10-point scale explained in OLAC Metadata Metrics. The score for the above record (along with comments on changes that could improve the score) is as follows:
| Component | + | - | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | 0 | 1 | Add a dc:title element. |
| Date | 1 | 0 | |
| Agent | 1 | 0 | |
| About | 1 | 0 | |
| Depth | 0 | 1 | For the full score, add at least 6 more elements in addition to the ones counted explicitly in other components of the score. |
| Content Language | 0 | 1 | Add a dc:language element with an ISO 639-3 code to identify the language in which the resource is written or spoken. |
| Subject Language | 0 | 1 | Add a dc:subject element with an ISO 639-3 code to identify the language which the resource is about. |
| OLAC Type | 0 | 1 | Add a dc:type element that uses the OLAC linguistic-type encoding scheme to identify the type of the resource from a linguistic point of view. |
| DCMI Type | 0 | 1 | Add a dc:type element that uses the DCMIType encoding scheme to identify the generic type of the resource. |
| Precision | 0 | 1 | For the full score, make use of at least 3
more encoding schemes in addition to the ones counted explicitly in other components of
the score. For instance,
|
| Quality score | 3 | ||