International Database of Digital Humanities Projects


Proposed Collated Structure

Oct. 7, 1998

perhaps for NEH use only

*Title

*Author

(Individual or group who created the access aid. Also includes contributors, in duplicate fields.)

*Project Contact Info

(email; phone; etc)

*Subject

(Use Controlled Vocabulary for subject field--see Proposed Subjects)

Publisher

(Institution or company name, includes name of division or department (e.g. The New York Public Library, Center for the Humanities, Manuscripts and Archives Division).

OtherAgent

Start Date/EndDate

(Date project initiated/closed)

*Date

(Date this record input or last updated)

*Object Type

1. Collaborative Spaces
(discussion lists, awareness services, MOOs or MUDs, VRML spaces)

2. Datasets
(historical datasets, linguistic corpora, and social science data)

3. Directories
(databases, directories, library catalogs, resource guides, statistics)

4. Image Collections
(museum exhibits, archival collections, historical photographs, architectural drawings)

5. Multimedia Collections
(spoken word, music, performances, exhibits, historical clips, geographic information)

6. Projects
(research materials, teaching materials, heritage materials, digital libraries, museum collections)

7. Publications
(bibliographies, conference proceedings, dictionaries and encyclopedias, journals, newspapers, theses and dissertations)

8. Teaching materials
(software guides, Internet resource guides, presentations, tutorials, workshop exercises, online discussions, class Webs),

9. Software
(Web tools, text analysis, graphics, languages, courseware).

*Form

(Text, HTML, EAD, etc)

*Identifier

URI, URN, URL, etc)

Relation

(Digitized images of collection, full-text of items, or anything available that is referred to in the access aid.

Source

(Item from which the digital document was derived.)

*Language

(From a controlled list)

Coverage

(Scope of the collection described)

Collection

(Collection name (e.g. Mariam and Ira D Wallace Collection)

*Description

*Project Funding

*Software Used

Standards Used

Rights

Evaluation

Level for Resources:

(K-12; University; Graduate;?)