Sample Metadata Record

oai:scoil.linguistics.berkeley.edu:AA.001

XML format

<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>

Display format

 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

Metadata quality analysis

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,
  • olac:role on dc:creator or dc:contributor
  • use dcterms:W3CDTF on dc:date (or its refinements)
  • use dcterms:URI when the value of an element is a URL
  • use dcterms:IMT on dc:format
Quality score  3