In the very little spare time I manage to find, I still try and update my personal family archive project. Again, it’s been a great experience working with a wonderful (and very personal collection!) and I’ve learned so much. I feel like I should write a little about that project here to show what I’ve learned.
People – This was surprisingly difficult and I dithered on this for quite sometime. First, I created a controlled vocabulary of sorts using the person’s official birth (therefore maiden) name. Then I decided to use the tagging system within Omeka to describe the people in the resource. For the intended audience, this is perhaps the most important piece of metadata and I wanted it featured prominently.
Date – trying hard to use the international standard yyyy-mm-dd consistently through out this project. Inferred dates are entered in square brackets [] and partial dates are left incomplete.
Language – for the few items I’m including that have a language component, I’m using a controlled vocabulary (via the Simple Vocab plugin) to describe the language of these resources. Right now it’s just English and Dutch.