DEFINITION
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The metadata element description uses free-form
text or a narrative to report general notes, abstracts, or summaries about the intellectual content of a media item you are cataloging. The information may be in the form of a paragraph giving an individual program description, anecdotal interpretations, or brief content reviews. The description may also consist of outlines, lists, bullet points, rundowns, segment sequence, edit decision lists, indexes, or tables of content. |
GUIDELINES
FOR USAGE
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Use the metadata element description for general notes, abstracts, or summaries about a media item, including text and words that are not found in the more highly structured and authority controlled descriptor subject. Use description for general purposes.
The information may be in the form of a paragraph giving an individual program description, anecdotal interpretations, or brief content reviews. The description may also consist of outlines, lists, bullet points, rundowns, segment sequence, edit decision lists, indexes, tables of content, or even content flags for questionable material or language. Specialized descriptions, such as rundowns and edit decision lists, should conform to any standards used by your industry or community.
If the description is a highly complicated index or a lengthy transcript, it is best not to insert so much text into a database field. Instead, generate a separate, stand-alone document. If the stand-alone document has exactly the same "intellectual content" descriptions as the seminal media item, then the stand-alone document could be entered as a separate rendition of the original where the pbcoreInstantiation container is repeated. For example, a video program and its companion transcript have the same intellectual descriptions and could be catalogued as a single metadata record, with two instantiations/formats.
Under other circumstances, where the "intellectual content" is different for two associated media items, use the pbcoreRelation container and its metadata elements to establish the relationship between the two linked assets and their separate metadata records.
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