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| 9 | <td width="15%" align="center"><img width="45" src="../gatherer_medium.gif" height="45"></td><td width="*" align="center"><a name="editingmetadatasets"><font size="5" face="Verdana"><strong>9.1: Editing Metadata Sets</strong></font></a></td><td width="15%" align="center"><img width="45" src="../gatherer_medium.gif" height="45"></td>
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| 13 | This section describes how to edit metadata sets and previously assigned values.
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| 18 | Contents
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| 26 | <td colspan="3"><a href="#simple">Simple Instructions:</a></td>
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| 31 | Editing sets
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| 37 | Editing elements
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| 49 | <img width="20" src="../gatherer_small.gif" height="20"><a name="simple"> Simple Instructions:</a>
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| 50 | <p style="text-align:justify"></p>
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| 51 | On the left of the "Edit Metadata Sets" dialog is a list showing what metadata
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| 52 | sets and profiles can be edited. Click one of these and its details will
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| 53 | appear on the right in one or more tables. Beneath are buttons for adding,
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| 54 | editing or removing the various parts; alongside them is the "Close" button.
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| 55 | Many buttons are greyed out initially, and are activated by selections in the
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| 56 | tables. Now we describe how to edit sets and elements.
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| 57 | <p></p>
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| 58 | To define a new metadata set, beside "Set" click "Add", fill out the
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| 59 | information requested, and click "OK". "Namespace" is a short identifier for
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| 60 | the new set (e.g. "dc" for Dublin Core; "dls" for the Development Library
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| 61 | Subset).
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| 62 | <p></p>
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| 63 | To remove a metadata set, select it in the list on the left and click "Remove".
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| 64 | A confirmation prompt will appear; confirming it permanently
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| 65 | removes the set and all associated metadata.
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| 66 | <p></p>
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| 67 | Some information is associated with each metadata set, such as its creator and
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| 68 | creation date. We call these "attributes" of the metadata set, and you can
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| 69 | alter them.
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| 70 | Beside "Attribute", click "Add" to add an attribute to the selected metadata
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| 71 | set, fill in the requested information -- name, language and values -- and
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| 72 | click "OK". Each metadata set is considered unique, so for a new metadata set
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| 73 | the pull-down list for the name and value are initially empty. Beside
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| 74 | "Attribute", "Edit" becomes active when an attribute is selected in the table
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| 75 | and leads to the same dialog as "Add" (except that the current value is already
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| 76 | filled out). Beside "Attribute", "Remove" becomes active when the attribute is
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| 77 | selected; when clicked the attribute is removed.
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| 78 | <p></p>
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| 79 | Double clicking on a set in the list on the left will display a list of metadata elements in that set. You can add an element, remove it, and remove values from
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| 80 | it. To add an element, beside "Element" click "Add" and specify the new
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| 81 | element's name.
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| 82 | <p></p>
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| 83 | To remove a metadata element, select it and beside "Element" click "Remove".
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| 84 | This permanently removes the element and all metadata
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| 85 | associated with it.
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| 86 | <p></p>
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| 87 | Just as information is associated with each metadata set, information can also
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| 88 | be associated with each metadata element -- metadata about metadata! Again we
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| 89 | call these "attributes"; Examples are a language-specific name for the element,
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| 90 | its definition, or perhaps a general comment.
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| 91 | <p></p>
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| 92 | You edit the attributes of an element in the same way that you edit the
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| 93 | attributes of a metadata set, explained above. In this case the pull-down
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| 94 | lists in the add and edit prompts may contain values from the same attribute of
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| 95 | other elements within the set.
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| 96 | <p></p>
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| 97 | You can also alter the "value tree" for an element, which
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| 98 | contains all the values that have been assigned to it. You
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| 99 | can "Add" a value whenever an element is selected. Choose a parent folder
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| 100 | (if any), enter the value and click "OK" to put the
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| 101 | new value in the tree. You can "Edit" a value that you have selected in the
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| 102 | value tree; click "OK" to commit the changes. Note that changing the parent
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| 103 | subject will cause the value to be moved to that subject. You can "Remove" a
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| 104 | value that you have selected in the tree -- but note that this does
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| 105 | not remove all metadata referring to this value, and if the
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| 106 | value is still in use it will be restored the next time you save.
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| 107 | <p></p>
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| 108 | Once you have finished changing the metadata set, click "Close".
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