Conspectus Field Listings and Definitions Version 2.0
1 Feb. 1995
Conspectus Group
NSF-University of Michigan Digital Library Project
document prepared by Gene Alloway
In each field below using controlled vocabulary there is an assumed "free" field which allows a content provider to enter their own choice of terms. Also, {}denote terms which be will more fully resolved by approximately April 1995.
Collection Title
- This is the field containing the primary name by which the collection will be known as a whole.
- Source of Terms: Content provider
- {Uncontrolled}
- {Mandatory}
URL
- This field contains the Internet address of the collection.
- Terms:Preference is for the complete alpha designation (e.g. http://www.sils.umich.edu/~ruff/bones.html)
- Source of Terms: Content provider
- {Uncontrolled}
- {Mandatory}
Description
- This field allows the content provider to enter in a paragraph description about the collection (e.g. Dialog database entries in catalog)
- Source of Terms: Content provider
- {Uncontrolled}
- {Optional}
Content Provider
- This field contains contact information of an organization or individual who is providing the content for the UMDL
- Source of Terms: Content provider
- {Uncontrolled}
- {Mandatory}
Rights Owner
- This field contains the name of the owner of intellectual rights for a particular collection
- Source of Terms: Content provider
- {Uncontrolled}
- {Mandatory}
Access Rights
- This field contains the domains from which access to a specific collection is allowed
- Source of Terms: Conspectus Group
- {Controlled - set of possible domain names}
- {Optional}
Conspectus Contact
- This field contains contact information for the person or persons who completed the conspectus entry for the collection
- Source of Terms: Content provider
- {Uncontrolled}
- {Mandatory}
Broad Topics
- This is the field for the broadest topical description of a collection
- Source of Terms: Conspectus Group - Top or secondary level BSO
- {Controlled}
- {Mandatory}
Specific Topics
- This field contains terms, generally sub-disciplines drawn from the Broad Topics, to describe collection content
- Source of Terms: Conspectus Group - Secondary or tertiary level BSO
- {Controlled}
- {Optional}
Searchable Form(s)
- This field contains information about the types of content in the collection which can be searched by a particular query
- Source of Terms: Conspectus Group
- {Controlled}
- {Mandatory}
Deliverable Form(s)
- This field designates in what form(s) or format(s) results of queries can return.
- Source of Terms: Conspectus Group ex. video(quicktime);images(jpeg);datasets;etc.
- {Controlled}
- {Mandatory}
Audience
- This field contains information about the appropriate user group(s) of the collection
- Source of Terms: Conspectus Group - Eisenhower National Clearlinghouse
- {Controlled}
- {Mandatory}
Treatment
- This field contians information about the intellectual level of presentation of collections.
- Source of Terms: Conspectus Group - ERIC
- {Controlled}
- {Optional}
Language
- This field contains information as to the language used in text and labels of collection content
- Terms:Complete spelling of language name; ex. english;japanese;latin;etc.
- {Uncontrolled}
- {Optional}
Chronological coverage
- This field conains information as to the dates covered by the content of a collection
- Terms:Year - ex. 1991-1994
- {Uncontrolled}
- {Optional}
Update Frequency
- This field contains information as to how often the content of a particular content changes
- Terms: Conspectus Group
{Controlled}
- {Optional}
Native Search Engine
- This field infroms the system what kind of inherent search engine (if any) the collection has available to it.
- Terms: Conspectus Group
- {Controlled}
- {Mandatory}
Query Language(s)
- This field contains information about the specific query language(s) used in anynative search engines of the collection
- Terms: conspectus Group
- {Controlled}
- {Mandatory}
Cost