Guidelines for cataloguing images using the Picture Queensland web form
Guidelines also available as a pdf document [new window 
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1. Introduction
These guidelines will assist Picture Queensland contributors to create quality, consistent, descriptive metadata for digital images. Quality and consistency in the way that images are catalogued will ensure the best possible discovery by users of Picture Queensland.
Establishing and maintaining as much consistency as possible in our metadata is a challenge in an environment like Picture Queensland where many organisations are contributing records.
Picture Queensland uses the qualified Dublin Core (DC) [new window http://dublincore.org/] schema to catalogue or index images. The emphasis is on providing multiple ways for users to find images that meet their information needs, and using language that is as accessible as possible to users. Within this framework, Picture Queensland utilises existing standards and tools, such as established subject thesauri.
The elements (or fields) used in the Picture Queensland qualified DC schema are: Title, Creator, Subject, Description, Publisher, Contributor, Format, Type, Source, Coverage, Relation, Rights, Date, Identifier and Rightsholder. In most cases, simple Dublin Core will be used without the use of qualifiers. If qualified elements are desired, refer to document Guidelines for the Use of Metadata in the Description of Digital Images [new window
Dublin Core elements are also known as fields and within Picture Queensland some elements have a different field label: eg, the Creator element becomes the Photographer field; the Coverage element is split into two fields - Date of Photograph and Geographic Location.
Last updated: 4th June 2009
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