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![Sorry, finding the appropriate metadata field is not exact science
Sometimes you need to rely on your best judgment and do extensive
research.
• Spatial coverage
– Answers the question “What is the image about? A place, an object or a person? Would
you like to get this image if you search for a location?”. If it’s about a place and you want
to get this image, the location goes in this field.
– It hosts geographic features as lakes, rivers, mountains if they are prominent objects
captured on the photo.
– It hosts also manmade objects as bridges, dams, etc.
• Site name
– Consider if the location is significant to be added to the local CV. What are the chances to
come across this building again? If it’s a casino, hotel, convention center etc. (buildings of
local significance) definitely put it here.
– See (1) Flamingo Hilton Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.) and (2) The Strip (Las Vegas, Nev.)
example
Summary [1 of 2]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/2016-02metadataworkshop-160430231744/75/Spatial-fields-Metadata-workshop-26-2048.jpg)
![Summary [2 of 2]
• Address 1
– Very straightforward – any streets would go in here. Don’t worry if you don’t know the
number. Put here street address of the building at the moment the image was captured,
not the current address.
• Address 2
– Use it when you can’t use Spatial coverage, but you know the city/state/country
– Use it in combination with Spatial coverage in cases when the pieces of metadata are
different
– See (1) Golden Gate Bridge, (2) Echo Canyon and (3) Vegas Creek examples](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/2016-02metadataworkshop-160430231744/75/Spatial-fields-Metadata-workshop-27-2048.jpg)
![• Three of the discussed fields must use CVs
• Controlled vocabularies and fields
– Spatial coverage: TGN or Geonames
– Site name: Local CV
– Address 1: [free text]
– Address 2: TGN
• Only metadata managers can approve and add
terms in the CVs
• Submit a request for term addition if you don’t
find it readily available in the CVs
For more information about CVs and fields always refer to
PHO IndexGuidelines_v2.0
Controlled Vocabularies](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/2016-02metadataworkshop-160430231744/75/Spatial-fields-Metadata-workshop-29-2048.jpg)
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Spatial fields -- Metadata workshop
The document outlines a metadata workshop held in Yvoire, France, aimed at teaching participants how to properly fill out metadata fields for images, including spatial coverage, site name, and address fields. It provides guidelines on the usage of controlled vocabularies (CV) and the importance of avoiding redundancy in metadata entries. Additionally, it includes practical examples and exercises to help attendees apply the discussed concepts effectively.
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- 1. Metadata Workshop Feb. 12, 2016 RuePrincipale Yvoire, France Img_001 Emily Lapworth, MLS Marina Georgieva, MLIS Silvia Southwick, PhD
- 2. Activities • Each imagehas an unique number corresponding to a row in your Quiz sheet • Each image has metadata pieces such as landmark, town/city, state, county, etc. • Assign the pieces of metadata for each image to the most appropriate fields in the Quiz sheet • Accommodate all the given metadata pieces in the fields if possible • Do not worry about the controlled vocabularies at this point
- 3. • Spatial coverage …Useto state the place or area that is described or represented by the resource, not the place where the resource was published... • Site name …This filed indicates the name of the place where the photo was taken… • Address 1 (#, street) …This field refers to the street address of the site. It does not need to be complete – enter what is known... • Address 2 …This specifies the hierarchy of the location of the site. The data should be entered as explained in the Spatial Coverage, i.e., indicate all terms of the hierarchy found in TGN, starting from the smallest place where the site is situated and ending with the name of the nation… Some theory Excerpt from PHO IndexGuidelines_v2.0
- 4. Goals • To becomefamiliar with the appropriate usage of the spatial fields – Spatial coverage – Site name – Address 1 (#, street) – Address 2 • To learn the specific usage guidelines for each of the fields • To learn the specific CV used for each of the fields • To distinguish among fields and avoid redundancy of metadata pieces
- 5. Let’s practice… Las Vegas,NV Img_002
- 6. Let’s practice… Old FortBuilding Las Vegas, NV Img_003
- 7. Let’s practice… Clark CountyFair Las Vegas, NV Img_004
- 8. Let’s practice… The EarlHome Bunkerville, NV Img_005
- 9.
- 10. Let’s practice… Golden GateBridge San Francisco, CA Img_007
- 11. Let’s practice… Vegas Creek LasVegas, NV Img_008
- 12. Let’s practice… Carver HouseHotel and Casino Las Vegas, NV Img_009
- 13. Let’s practice… Flamingo HiltonHotel 3555 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, NV Img_010
- 14. Let’s practice… Echo Canyon Pioche,Lincoln County Img_011
- 15. Let’s practice… Las Vegas,NV Img_012
- 16. Let’s practice… Las Vegas,NV Img_013
- 17. The Strip Las Vegas,NV Img_014 Credits: activerain.com Let’s practice…
- 18. Let’s practice… Old MeetingHouse Bunkerville, NV Img_015
- 19. Let’s practice… Desert InnHotel Las Vegas, NV Img_016
- 20. Let’s practice… http://d.library.unlv.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/sky/id/2222/rec/1 1414 MariaElena Dr. Paradise Palms Las Vegas, NV Img_017
- 21. Let’s practice… Dunes Hoteland Country Club Las Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas, NV Img_018
- 22. The Strip Las Vegas,NV Img_019 Let’s practice…
- 23. Let’s practice… Las Vegas,NV Img_020
- 24. Let’s practice… Del Webb'sNevada Club Las Vegas, NV Img_021
- 25. Let’s practice… Stardust Hotel LasVegas, NV Img_022 Postcard
- 26. Sorry, finding theappropriate metadata field is not exact science Sometimes you need to rely on your best judgment and do extensive research. • Spatial coverage – Answers the question “What is the image about? A place, an object or a person? Would you like to get this image if you search for a location?”. If it’s about a place and you want to get this image, the location goes in this field. – It hosts geographic features as lakes, rivers, mountains if they are prominent objects captured on the photo. – It hosts also manmade objects as bridges, dams, etc. • Site name – Consider if the location is significant to be added to the local CV. What are the chances to come across this building again? If it’s a casino, hotel, convention center etc. (buildings of local significance) definitely put it here. – See (1) Flamingo Hilton Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.) and (2) The Strip (Las Vegas, Nev.) example Summary [1 of 2]
- 27. Summary [2 of2] • Address 1 – Very straightforward – any streets would go in here. Don’t worry if you don’t know the number. Put here street address of the building at the moment the image was captured, not the current address. • Address 2 – Use it when you can’t use Spatial coverage, but you know the city/state/country – Use it in combination with Spatial coverage in cases when the pieces of metadata are different – See (1) Golden Gate Bridge, (2) Echo Canyon and (3) Vegas Creek examples
- 28. Helpful tips • Avoidredundant information – if you put metadata in Spatial coverage field, don’t repeat it in Address 2 field if it’s the same! • If you know the location name and it doesn’t qualify for Spatial coverage, you must put it in Address 2. Don’t skip it! • When wondering if an object goes in Site name, consider if it is significant enough to be put in the local CV or we may never come across the same building again • When describing residential homes, don’t put them in Site name as they are not significant for the city. Use Address 1 and Address 2 instead
- 29. • Three ofthe discussed fields must use CVs • Controlled vocabularies and fields – Spatial coverage: TGN or Geonames – Site name: Local CV – Address 1: [free text] – Address 2: TGN • Only metadata managers can approve and add terms in the CVs • Submit a request for term addition if you don’t find it readily available in the CVs For more information about CVs and fields always refer to PHO IndexGuidelines_v2.0 Controlled Vocabularies
- 30. • Example forTGN normalized term – Yuma (inhabited place), Yuma (county), Arizona (state), United States (nation) • Example for Geonames term normalized according to TGN structure – Golden Gate Bridge (bridge), San Francisco (county), California (state), United States (nation) • Example for local CV term – Old Meeting House (Bukerville, Nev.) Controlled Vocabularies Examples
- 31. • Please lookat the Quiz answers (controlled terms) to see how the metadata looks like when it’s normalized. • These are examples from our workshop today Controlled Vocabularies Examples
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- 33. 1 Quiz answers (not-controlled) Theseanswers don’t conform to the PHO IndexGuidelines_v2.0. They simply illustrate how the metadata is distributed among the appropriate fields. For information how it will look like when normalized according to the Guidelines, please refer to Quiz answers (controlled terms). Metadata workshop Feb. 12, 2016 Image # Spatial coverage Site name Address 1 Address 2 Notes Img_001 title page Yvoire, France Rue Principale X No Address 2 to avoid redundancy Img_002 Las Vegas, NV The image is about the house, not about Las Vegas, NV Img_003 Old Fort Building Las Vegas, NV Consider if it’s worth the effort to put Old Fort in local CV. If not, leave it out. Img_004 Las Vegas, NV Is it Fair as event or a fairground? If it’s fairground consider if it’s significant place in LV, before you add if to Site name CV. Img_005 Bunkerville, NV No house name as it’s not famous building Img_006 Yuma, AZ The image is about the bridge, not about the city that’s why we don’t put in Spatial coverage
- 34. 2 Image # Spatialcoverage Site name Address 1 Address 2 Notes Img_007 Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco, CA Golden Gate Bridge is a manmade object and it’s the most prominent object on the image. It goes in Spatial coverage field. Img_008 Vegas Creek Las Vegas, NV Putting the creek in Spatial coverage because it is the most prominent element in the picture and it’s also a geographic feature. Img_009 Carver House Hotel and Casino Las Vegas, NV Site name indicates where the image was taken, It’s about the people, not about the place Img_010 Flamingo Hilton Hotel 3555 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, NV Nothing in Spatial coverage as this photo is about the hotel, not about the city Img_011 Echo Canyon Pioche, Lincoln County Geographic feature prominently captured on the photo Img_012 Las Vegas, NV X It’s all about the place! No Address 2 to avoid redundancy Img_013 Las Vegas, NV For portraits, it doesn’t really matter where they were taken, but if we know the location, put it in Address 1
- 35. 3 Image # Spatialcoverage Site name Address 1 Address 2 Notes Img_014 Las Vegas, NV The Strip It’s hard to decide if it’s about the girl or about the place. Use your best judgment. Do you want to get this image if you perform search for LV? A thing to consider is if the person is famous or of historical significance. If it’s just an anonymous person like in this example, put the city in Spatial coverage Img_015 Old Meeting House (Bukerville, NV) Bunkerville, NV Is the house significant enough to go into Site name? Img_016 Desert Inn Hotel Las Vegas, NV The image was taken there, so the hotel name must go in Site name Img_017 Paradise Palms 1414 Maria Elena Dr. Las Vegas, NV No Spatial coverage as this is not about the city. Paradise Palms goes in Site name as place where image was taken Img_018 Dunes Hotel and Country Club Las Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas, NV No Spatial coverage as this is not about the city. Img_019 Las Vegas, NV The Strip Las Vegas Blvd. X It’s about the city and its landmarks. No Address 2 to avoid redundancy Img_020 The Strip Las Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas, NV It’s about the sign, not about the city. We don’t see anything from the city.
- 36. 4 Image # Spatialcoverage Site name Address 1 Address 2 Notes Img_021 Del Webb’s Nevada Club Las Vegas, NV It’s about the sign, not about the city. We don’t see anything from the city. Img_022 Stardust Hotel Las Vegas, NV The postcard is advertising the hotel and is not about the city.
- 37. 1 Quiz answers (controlledterms) Some examples that illustrate how the metadata in the discussed fields will look like after being normalized according to the PHO IndexGuidelines_v2.0 Metadata workshop Feb. 12, 2016 Image # Spatial coverage Site name Address 1 Address 2 Notes Img_001 title page Yvoire (inhabited place), Rhone-Alpes (region), France (nation) Rue Principale X Spatial coverage term follows TGN encoding scheme. Address 1 doesn’t require encoding scheme, so we put all that we have in free text. Img_003 Old Fort Building (Las Vegas, Nev.) Las Vegas (inhabited place), Clark (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Address 2 field requires TGN scheme. Site name follow a local CV. Due to the generic nature of the site, we put Las Vegas, Nev. to distinguish it from the others. Img_005 Bunkerville (inhabited place), Clark (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Address 2 field requires TGN scheme. Img_006 Yuma (inhabited place), Yuma (county), Arizona (state), United States (nation) Address 2 field requires TGN scheme.
- 38. 2 Image # Spatialcoverage Site name Address 1 Address 2 Notes Img_007 Golden Gate Bridge (bridge), San Francisco (county), California (state), United States (nation) San Francisco (inhabited place), San Francisco (county), California (state), United States (nation) Spatial coverage requires TGN or Geonames if the term is not in TGN. This is an example of name coming from Geonames, but following the structure of TGN. In this example we would put the city in Address 2 as it differs from the object. The field requires TGN. Img_008 Vegas Creek (creek), Clark (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Las Vegas (inhabited place), Clark (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Spatial coverage term follows TGN encoding scheme. Address 2 field requires TGN scheme. Img_009 Carver House Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.) Las Vegas (inhabited place), Clark (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Site name requires local CV. This term is not there yet… Address 2 field requires TGN scheme.
- 39. 3 Image # Spatialcoverage Site name Address 1 Address 2 Notes Img_010 Flamingo Hilton Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.) 3555 S Las Vegas Blvd. Las Vegas (inhabited place), Clark (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Site name requires local CV. This term is not there yet… Address 1 doesn’t require encoding scheme, so we put all that we have in free text. Address 2 field requires TGN scheme. Img_011 Echo Canyon (valley), Lincoln (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Pioche (inhabited place), Lincoln (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Both Spatial coverage and Address 2 field require TGN scheme. Img_014 Las Vegas (inhabited place), Clark (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) The Strip (Las Vegas, Nev.) Spatial coverage term follows TGN encoding scheme. Site name requires local CV. This term is not there yet… Img_015 Old Meeting House (Bukerville, Nev.) Bunkerville (inhabited place), Clark (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Site name requires local CV. This term is not there yet… Address 2 field requires TGN scheme. Img_016 Desert Inn Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.) Las Vegas (inhabited place), Clark (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Site name requires local CV. This term is not there yet… Address 2 field requires TGN scheme.
- 40. 4 Image # Spatialcoverage Site name Address 1 Address 2 Notes Img_017 Paradise Palms (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1414 Maria Elena Dr. Las Vegas (inhabited place), Clark (county), Nevada (state), United States (nation) Site name requires local CV. This term is not there yet… Address 1 doesn’t require encoding scheme, so we put all that we have in free text. Address 2 field requires TGN scheme.