5.2: Selecting Metadata Sets

This section explains how to specify metadata elements and how to add metadata sets to your collection.

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Simple Instructions: What is a metadata set? Controlling the metadata sets used

Simple Instructions:

Sets of predefined metadata elements are known as "metadata sets". An example is the Dublin Core metadata set. When you add a metadata set to your collection, its elements become available for selection. You can have more than one set; to prevent name clashes a short identifier that identifies the metadata set is pre-pended to the element name. For instance the Dublin Core element Creator becomes "dc.Creator". Metadata sets are stored in the Librarian Interface's metadata folder and have the suffix ".mds".

To control the metadata sets used in a collection, use the "Metadata Sets" entry on the Design view.