Form Part C Part C Part C

Part C: What Technologies Does Your Project Use?

 

We are collecting information about how your digitized content and descriptive metadata is stored and structured. This information will help us assess the range of options for sharing metadata and assist future National Leadership Grantees. Providing this information in no way obligates you to provide item level metadata to the IMLS DCC project.

 

16  What is the operating system on the server where digitized content is stored?

Windows NT / 2000 / XP
Linux
Other Unix system
Other (Please specify):

 

17.  What web server system is your project using?

Windows Internet Information Server (IIS)
Apache / Tomcat
Other (Please specify):

 

18.  Is your project tracking usage of your digital collection through transaction log data?

Yes
No

 

19.  Is your project creating and maintaining descriptive metadata in digital form for individual digitized items or groups of items within your collection? If no, please skip to question 23.

Yes
No  Please skip to question 23.

 

20.  What schema(s) is(are) used for the item level descriptive metadata? (check all that apply)

MARC
Dublin Core (simple or qualified)
TEI Header
VRA Core (Visual Resource Assoc Core)
Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
Locally developed metadata schema
Other standard metadata schema (please specify):

 

21.  How is the item level descriptive metadata stored? (check all that apply):

MS Access
Filemaker Pro
FoxPro
XML files
HTML meta tags
MySQL / SQL Server
Digital Library Management System (e.g. Content DM). Please specify:
Museum Collection Management System (e.g. Argus). Please specify:
Library Management System (e.g. Voyager). Please specify:
Other (please specify):

 

22.  In this question we are interested in knowing what controlled vocabularies and/or authority controls are in place for your item level descriptive metadata. In the able below there are two columns. The left column is for the metadata element (such as ubject) or value (such as personal name). The right column is for the controlled vocabulary (such as the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)) and/or authority control (such as the LC Name Authority File).

What standard controlled vocabularies and/or authority controls are in place for your item level descriptive metadata? Please specify the metadata element or value and the associated vocabulary or authority control.

Metadata Element or Value	Controlled Vocabularies / Authority Controls
Subject
Type of Material
Format of Material
Personal Names
Geographic Names
Other (Please specify:)
Other (Please specify:)
Other (Please specify:)
Other (Please specify:)
Other (Please specify:)

 

23.  What exposure to or experience -- if any -- with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has your project had? (check all that apply)

No exposure to OAI-PMH
Have read or heard presentations about OAI-PMH
Institution has plans to implement OAI-PMH
In use at institution (not for NLG project)
NLG project has plans to implement OAI-PMH
In use for NLG project
Other. Please explain:

 

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