Making Photographs in Language Archives Maximally Useful: Metadata Guidelines for Community and Academic Depositors

Abstract

Collections in language archives typically include photographs. The purpose of these photographs is to supplement linguistic information about materials, places, and people related to cultural activities that are being forgotten. Instruction on metadata creation for these photograph deposits must take into consideration the variety of depositors to and users of language archives. In addition to the use of existing controlled vocabularies, classification lists, or thesauri in metadata creation, we observe in metadata for photographs the need for open-ended descriptions of personal experience related to the objects, places, and things photographed.

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