Historic Niagara Digital Collections

Definitions

Abstract: Summary of the resource. Only used 7 times in the database, click here to see them

 

Access Rights: Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status.

 

Bibliographic Citation: Our reference database has a few digitized books in our collection. This comes in two forms a number that uniquely identifies a book, and a link to said book.

 

Contributor: Someone who helped with this item.

 

Creator: The person who created the resource.

 

Date: Only the Newspaper index has them searchable by date range, however there are many items that have the date as just the year, or year/month as YYYYMM or for example: 199101, or as text as in August 04, 1962. We are working on updating the dates so the are more easily read and searchable.

 

Date Copyrighted: Date of copyright.

 

Date Created: Date of creation of the resource as inputted by us at the library. There is an o:created property that the system uses to order search results, that one works off of when it was added to this new version of the site.

 

Description: Formally notes field.

 

The Dublin Core™: Metadata Initiative, or "DCMI", is an organization supporting innovation in metadata design and best practices across the metadata ecology. (Website)

 

Extent: The size or duration of the resource.

 

Friends of Friends:FOAF is a computer language defining a dictionary of people-related terms that can be used in structured data.(Website)

 

Format: The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource.

 

Has Part: A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource.

 

Identifier: The link from the old site.

 

Format of: A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format.

 

Is Format of: A related resource that is substantially the same as the described resource, but in another format.

 

Is Part Of: A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.

 

Is Referenced By: A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource.

 

Is Version of: A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation.

 

Medium: The material or physical carrier of the resource.

 

Provenance: A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation.

 

Publisher: An entity responsible for making the resource available.

 

Rights: Information about copy rights held in and over the resource.

 

Rights Holder: A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource.

 

Source: A related resource from which the described resource is derived.

 

Title: A name given to the resource.

 

Type: The nature or genre of the resource.

 

ISBN: International Standard Book Number

 

LCCN: Library of Congress Control Number (similar to ISBN)

 

Locator: Where in our library this book sits.

 

Number: document number.

 

URI: Website link associated with the item.