Design of Metadata Schemas for

Chinese Cultural Celebrities’ Manuscript Library

Wei Liu Cuijuan Xia Leon ZhaoXiangying Lou Chunjing Zhang

Shanghai Library

Presented by Leon Zhao

OUTLINE

• Brief introduction of CCCML

• Collections of CCCML

• Workflow

• Metadata framework

• Multi-schema supported metadata editor system

CCCML

• Chinese Cultural Celebrities’ Manuscripts Library

• Established in 1992

• Approximate 60,000 items

• About more than 2,000 celebrities

– Manuscripts– Letters– Diaries– Photographs– Paintings and calligrap

hies– Books with signature a

nd remarks

– Print materials– Notebooks– Audio and video (AV)

Materials– Certificates– Diploma– Physical objects

Collections of CCCML

• 12 categories of collections

ER model of CCCML

Person

Celebrity

Donator

Organization

Manuscripts Letters PCS Dairies

Photographs

AV materials

Physical Objects

about

about

about

Signed Books

Certificates

Diplomas badges

Notebooks

Created by

1:0 has affiliation

created created

……Badges

Workflow Resource Analysis

Modeling

Draw out the properties Document Review

Define Element

Authority control Qualification Indexing

Encoding

System requirements

Quality Control

Consistency and accuracy checking of

metadata indexing

Metadata framework

• Conform to Application Profile guidelines

• Reuse entities from:– DC-Lib CDWA REACH

• Three-tier semantic architecture– Core – Core for CCCML– Extended element

Three Tier Structure

Core (Dc-Lib)

Core for CCCML

Special element

Common in 12 resources in C

CCML

for individual resource in CCCML

Manuscripts Letters Diaries

Photographs

……..

CCCML metadata architecture

Core（ 17） Core for CCCML（ 5） Extended element（ 5）：Example with paintings and calligraphies

Name Identifier Name Identifier Name Identifier

题名 dc: title 获取方式 availability 题记 cdwa: Inscriptions/Marks

创建者 dc: creator 创作地 reach: placeOfOrigin/Discovery 材质 cdwa: materialsAndTechniques. materials

其他责任者 dc: contributor 工具 cdwa: materialsAndTechniques. implement

技法 cdwa: facture

出版者 dc: publisher 颜色 cdwa: materialsAndTechniques. color 书体 styleOfCalligraphy

主题 dc: subject 捐赠者 donator 印章 seal

描述 dc: description

日期 dc: date

类型 dc: type

格式 dc: format

标识符 dc: identifier

来源 dc: source

语种 dc: language

关联 dc: relation

覆盖范围 dc: coverage

权限 dc: rights

版本 mods: edition

馆藏位置 mods: location

Multi-schema supported metadata editor system

• Multi-schema supported

• Schema driven interface

• B/S architecture

• Authority control supported

• Celebrity relation management

Thank You!

QUESTIONS?

CCCML (room 2302)