MyDatabase:

Desktop database model

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Desktop Database Model

1. Media description: a strategy

2. MS access database and query template

3. Media digitization and query template

4. File naming and directory structure guidelines

5. Vocabulary controller application

Media Description:
Administrative Metadata

Collection owner

Media document owner

Date record entered

Access rights

Date media object created

Standard vocabulary

Location of object

Location of digital master

Media object information

Object format

Notes/details

Media Description:
Object Metadata

Physical

Conceptual

Contextual

Document ID

Examples of Object Metadata

The Prototype Model

(A link will be here to the Access Database)

Advantages

1. Faculty outreach: Digital media database toolset

2. Simple but scalable

3. Diffusion of Library Skills

4. Demonstrates commitment

5. Creates value, grant potential

Problems

1. Still for the technically inclined

2. Digital Image Conversion Process- costs & kinks

3. Training librarians & faculty

4. Filespace & server provision

5. Free but not open source


	1. Media description: a strategy
	2. MS access database and query template
	3. Media digitization and query template
	4. File naming and directory structure guidelines
	5. Vocabulary controller application


	Collection owner
	Media document owner
	Date record entered
	Access rights
	Date media object created

	Standard vocabulary
	Location of object
	Location of digital master
	Media object information
	Object format
	Notes/details


	1. Faculty outreach: Digital media database toolset
	2. Simple but scalable
	3. Diffusion of Library Skills
	4. Demonstrates commitment
	5. Creates value, grant potential


	1. Still for the technically inclined
	2. Digital Image Conversion Process- costs & kinks
	3. Training librarians & faculty
	4. Filespace & server provision
	5. Free but not open source