This assignment evaluates your ability to design, document, and justify a metadata schema tailored to your digital collection’s users, content, and functional needs.
Component Criteria
1. Context, Users, and Functional Requirements
- Clearly and fully describes the context, content, and intended users of the collection.
- Identifies specific functional requirements that guide metadata decisions.
- Draws clear connections between functional requirements and the metadata elements included in the profile.
- Demonstrates thoughtful reflection on how metadata can support user access, discovery, and use.
(40 points)
2. Element Selection and Documentation
- Includes all required CollectionBuilder-GH elements.
- Includes at least two visualization elements and one or more relevant optional fields.
- Introduces at least one custom metadata field, with a clear justification.
- For each element, provides complete documentation including:
- obligation
- cardinality
- content guidelines
- applicable controlled vocabularies or syntax encoding schemes (with links)
- Dublin Core mapping
- illustrative example(s)
- notes (if relevant)
- Documentation is complete, precise, and clearly tailored to the project’s content and goals.
(40 points)
3. Alignment and Coherence
- Metadata choices are well aligned with the collection’s users and content.
- Design reflects an understanding of how metadata structure, semantics, and encoding affect system behavior and user experience.
- Element specifications (e.g., vocabulary choices, content guidelines) support the stated functional requirements and reflect professional standards.
(40 points)
4. Structure and Professional Presentation
- Document is clearly organized and visually structured for readability.
- Appropriate use of headings, tables, and lists.
- Links to standards are included and functioning.
- Typography and formatting support clarity and navigation.
- Could reasonably be used by another team member or stakeholder to implement metadata consistently.
(40 points)
5. Writing Quality and Mechanics
- Writing is clear, professional, and free of distracting grammar, punctuation, or typographic errors.
- Terminology is used accurately; citations or links to external resources are complete and properly formatted.
- The overall tone and structure reflect graduate-level work in digital libraries or digital scholarship.
(40 points)
Total: 200 points