On this one, I am labeling everything with the field into which it will go.
Publisher
"Washington and Lee Special Collections"
This information is uniform for all items.
Date.created
This should be filled in with the date the letter was written, in dd/mm/yyyy format.
Title
We are still working on how to formulate unique titles for each document.
Description
This field will contain a one to three sentence description of the letter created by our volunteer and vetted by our historian.
Keywords
This will contain zero to an unlimited number of key phrases or words that describe important concepts in the letter. These phrases are not part of a formal subject classification system. They are selected by our volunteer and expanded and vetted by our historian.
Type
We had wanted this field to be "letter," but the choices seem to be fixed, and letter is not one of them. So I am using "image."
Not metadata per se, the title of the collection within Dspace shall be:
"The letters of John Barclay (MSS number)"
We had discussed the neccessity of creating a page or document describing the collection. there are a few ways to go about doing this:
* Within Dspace, each collection has a "description" field. To see what this looks like when displayed, go here: http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/1065
* I could try to find an existing field in the database to use. for a URL, as we discussed previously.