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Add or Edit Fields of Items with URIs

Ryan Wick edited this page Mar 30, 2019 · 4 revisions

Add Creators

  • Find Creators group on Ingest Form
  • In the first dropdown field, select the type, such as Creator, Photographer, Editor
  • Type in name to trigger autocomplete search of LCNAF, select from list if possible
  • OR Find existing record
    • LC Name Authority File:
    • Opaque Namespace:
      • Visit http://opaquenamespace.org, use Search box to locate names, searching for 'Wanda' gives results, one of which is the URI http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/people/GiffordWanda
    • Copy/paste the URI into the field

Add (controlled) Subject

Add Set/Digital Collection

  • Find 'Groupings' group on Ingest Form
  • In the first dropdown field, choose the Set field
  • If brand new Digital Collection, contact Ryan
  • Select Collection from list in next dropdown
  • Add more Set entries (click green + button) as needed
  • Add entry under Primary Set and select Collection

Add Local Collection Name

  • Find the 'Sources' group on the Ingest Form
  • In the first dropdown field, select Local Collection Name
  • Visit http://opaquenamespace.org and use the search, either by title or collection ID number.
  • Find URI. Example: http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/p_117
  • Copy/paste the URI into the field

Add Location

  • Can use type-ahead here, but results can be problematic, can't always tell which result you really want. Also type-ahead labels are different than generated labels in Oregon Digital
  • Find the 'Geographics' group on the Ingest Form
  • In the first dropdown field, select Location
  • Find the URI for the location, search Geonames.org: http://geonames.org
  • Confirm the entry in search results is correct (check county, check on map by clicking title of result)
  • From the Search Results, click on the little colored icon, new page should be map view showing numeric ID for location
  • Example Web URL: http://www.geonames.org/5753969/spring-lake.html
  • Important part is the numeric ID, and we want the full URI
  • Change 'www' in URL to 'sws' and remove the name and .html but not the slash
  • Example URI: http://sws.geonames.org/5753969/ (KEEP THE LAST SLASH)
  • Paste the URI into the field

Change License

  • Items should already have a license, but you may want to change and either relax restrictions or add restrictions
  • To pick a different license, review licenses on http://oregondigital.org/copyright
  • Find the Rights group on Ingest Form
  • In the first dropdown field, select Rights
  • Select the URI for the license. Example: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
  • Copy/paste the URI into the field