Records Management Metadata

The following metadata sets should be considered in establishing a standard for the classification of electronic records series and systems for public access and disposition:

Excerpts Related to Metadata in the 5015.2 Records Management Standard

Reference: http://web7.whs.osd.mil/text/p50152s.txt
March 22, 1999

C2.2.1.3. RMAs shall provide authorized individuals with the capability to assign the following data when generating the file plan:

C2.2.1.3.1. Record Category Name. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.1.3.2. Record Category Code. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.1.3.3. Record Category Description. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.1.3.4. Disposition Authority. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.1.3.5. Vital Record Indicator. (36 CFR 1236.20, reference (k))

C2.2.1.3.6. Disposition Instruction Name. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.1.3.7. Disposition Instruction Code. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.1.3.8. Disposition Instruction Type. (see subparagraph C2.2.2.5.2., below)

C2.2.1.3.9. User definable fields.

C2.2.1.4. RMAs shall provide the capability for only authorized individuals to assign a disposition instruction code to a file or record category. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.2.5. RMAs shall (for all records) capture or provide the user with the capability to assign, as appropriate, the following minimum profile data (metadata) when the record is filed: (36 CFR 1234.22 and 36 CFR 1222.50, references (n) and (h))

C2.2.2.5.1. Subject. (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.2.5.2. Date Filed. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.2.5.3. Addressee(s). (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.2.5.4. Media Type. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.2.5.5. Format. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.2.5.6. Location of Record. (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.2.5.7. Document Creation Date. (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.2.5.8. Author or Originator. (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.2.5.9. Originating Organization. (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.2.5.10. Vital Record Indicator (36 CFR 1236.20, reference (k))

C2.2.7.1. RMAs shall allow searches using any combination of the following record profile data elements. (RMTF, reference (j))
 
C2.2.7.1.1. Subject (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.7.1.2. Date Filed (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.7.1.3. Addressee(s) (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.7.1.4. Media Type (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.7.1.5. Format (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.7.1.6. Location of Record (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.7.1.7. Document Creation Date (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.7.1.8. Author or Originator (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.7.1.9. Originating Organization (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.7.1.10. Other Recipients (E-mail) (36 CFR 1234.24, reference (s))

C2.2.7.1.11. File Code (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.7.1.12. Disposition Instruction Code (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.7.1.13. Disposition Cutoff Date (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.7.1.14. Disposition Action Date (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C2.2.7.1.15. Disposition Action Code (Transfer, Destroy, or Freeze)

C2.2.7.1.16. Disposition Instruction Type (Time, Event, Time-Event)

C2.2.7.1.17. Vital Record Indicator (36 CFR 1236.20, reference (k))

C2.2.7.1.18. Record Identifier (RMTF, reference (j))

C2.2.7.1.19. User Defined Fields (36 CFR 1234.22, reference (n))

C3.2. OTHER USEFUL RMA FEATURES

Many RMA products provide the following time and labor saving functions either as standard or optional features to enhance the utility of the system: (The acquisition/using activity should determine local requirements for any of the following RMA features.)

C3.2.18. Access Log. RMAs shall log the following audit information for each access:

C3.2.18.1. Record identifier.

C3.2.18.2. File code.

C3.2.18.3. User account identifier.


Dublin Core

Reference:  http://purl.oclc.org/dc/about/element_set.htm

Element: Title
  Name:      Title
  Identifier:  Title
  Definition:  A name given to the resource.
  Comment:     Typically, a Title will be a name by which the resource is formally known.

Element: Creator
  Name:      Creator
  Identifier:  Creator
  Definition:  An entity primarily responsible for making the content of the resource.
  Comment:   Examples of a Creator include a person, an organisation, or a service. Typically, the name of a Creator should be used to indicate the entity.

Element: Subject
  Name:      Subject and Keywords
  Identifier:  Subject
  Definition:  The topic of the content of the resource.
  Comment:     Typically, a Subject will be expressed as keywords key phrases or classification codes that describe a topic of the resource.  Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary or formal classification scheme.

Element: Description
  Name:      Description
  Identifier:  Description
  Definition:  An account of the content of the resource.
  Comment:     Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, table of contents, reference to a graphical representation of content or a free-text account of the content.

Element: Publisher
  Name:      Publisher
  Identifier:  Publisher
  Definition:  An entity responsible for making the resource available
  Comment:     Examples of a Publisher include a person, an organisation, or a service.  Typically, the name of a Publisher should be used to indicate the entity.

Element: Contributor
  Name:      Contributor
  Identifier:  Contributor
  Definition:  An entity responsible for making contributions to the content of the resource.
  Comment:     Examples of a Contributor include a person, an organisation, or a service.  Typically, the name of a Contributor should be used to indicate the entity.

Element: Date
  Name:      Date
  Identifier:  Date
  Definition:  A date associated with an event in the life cycle of the resource.
  Comment:     Typically, Date will be associated with the creation or availability of the resource.  Recommended best practice for encoding the date value is defined in a profile of
   ISO 8601 [W3CDTF] and follows the YYYY-MM-DD format.

Element: Type
  Name:      Resource Type
  Identifier:  Type
  Definition:  The nature or genre of the content of the resource.
  Comment:     Type includes terms describing general categories, functions, genres, or aggregation levels for content. Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the working draft list of Dublin Core Types [DCT1]). To describe the physical or digital manifestation of the resource, use the FORMAT element.

Element: Format
  Name:      Format
  Identifier:  Format
  Definition:  The physical or digital manifestation of the resource.
  Comment:     Typically, Format may include the media-type or dimensions of the resource. Format may be used to determine the software, hardware or other equipment needed to display or operate the resource. Examples of dimensions include size and duration.  Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the list of Internet Media Types [MIME] defining computer media formats).

Element: Identifier
  Name:      Resource Identifier
  Identifier:  Identifier
  Definition:  An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context.
  Comment:     Recommended best practice is to identify the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system.  Example formal identification systems include the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) (including the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)), the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and the International Standard Book Number (ISBN).

Element: Source
  Name:      Source
  Identifier:  Source
  Definition:  A Reference to a resource from which the present resource is derived.
  Comment:     The present resource may be derived from the Source resource in whole or in part.  Recommended best practice is to reference the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system.

Element: Language
  Name:      Language
  Identifier:  Language
  Definition:  A language of the intellectual content of the resource.
  Comment:     Recommended best practice for the values of the Language element is defined by RFC 1766 [RFC1766] which includes a two-letter Language Code (taken from the ISO 639 standard [ISO639]), followed optionally, by a two-letter Country Code (taken from the ISO 3166 standard [ISO3166]).  For example, 'en' for English, 'fr' for French, or 'en-uk' for English used in the United Kingdom.

Element: Relation
  Name:      Relation
  Identifier:  Relation
  Definition:  A reference to a related resource.
  Comment:     Recommended best practice is to reference the resource by means of a string or number conforming to a formal identification system.

Element: Coverage
  Name:      Coverage
  Identifier:  Coverage
  Definition:  The extent or scope of the content of the resource.
  Comment:     Coverage will typically include spatial location (a place name or geographic coordinates), temporal period (a period label, date, or date range) or jurisdiction (such as a named administrative entity).  Recommended best practice is to select a value from a controlled vocabulary (for example, the Thesaurus of Geographic Names [TGN]) and that, where appropriate, named places or time periods be used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of coordinates or date ranges.

Element: Rights
  Name:      Rights Management
  Identifier:  Rights
  Definition: Information about rights held in and over the resource.
  Comment:    Typically, a Rights element will contain a right  management statement for the resource, or reference a service providing such information. Rights information often encompasses Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Copyright, and various Property Rights.  If the Rights element is absent, no assumptions can be made about the status of these and other rights with respect to the resource.


Open Document Management (ODM) Attributes

Reference: http://www.gils.net/odm/

Attribute ID: ODM_ALTERNATE_RENDERINGS
Data Type: String
Description: If the DMS supports alternate renderings for the specified document, then it must return a comma-separated list of format names representing the alternate formats. Formats can be identified by MIME Content Type. Otherwise, the first character must be a dot followed by a file extension, which may be followed by a single forward slash plus other identifying
information.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Cross-Reference-Linkage-Type

Attribute ID: ODM_AUTHOR
Data Type: String
Description: Author of the document.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Author-name or Originator

Attribute ID: ODM_CHECKEDOUTBY
Data Type: String
Description: Username of the person who has the document checked-out.

Attribute ID: ODM_CHECKOUTCOMMENT
Data Type: String
Description: The comment, if any, that the user supplied when they checked-out the document.

Attribute ID: ODM_CHECKOUTDATE
Data Type: Date
Description: The date/time the document was checked-out.

Attribute ID: ODM_CONTENTFORMAT
Data Type: String
Description: The format name string indicating the format of the document's contents. Formats  can be identified by MIME Content Type. Otherwise, the first character must be a dot followed by a file extension, which may be followed by a single forward slash plus other identifying information.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Linkage-Type

Attribute ID: ODM_CREATEDBY
Data Type: String
Description: Username of the person who initially created the document in the DMS.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Name-editor

Attribute ID: ODM_CREATEDDATE
Data Type: Date
Description: The date/time the document was created in the DMS.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Date/time added to database

Attribute ID: ODM_DOCID_LATEST
Data Type: DocID
Description: A null-terminated document ID for the Latest version of the document represented by lpszDocId . If lpszDocId is the Latest version, it will be the same document ID.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Identifier-document

Attribute ID: ODM_DOCID_RELEASED
Data Type: DocID
Description: A null-terminated document ID for the Released version of the document represented by lpszDocId . If lpszDocId is the Released version, it will be the same document ID. If the DMS does not differentiate Released versions, return the version ID of the Latest version of the document.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Identifier-document

Attribute ID: ODM_DOCVERSION
Data Type: String
Description: A null-terminated string which is the version ID for lpszDocId . This allows the application to display the version information explicitly (without doing the impossible and decoding the document ID), for situations such as where the user is making the decision to re-link to a different version. It is the DMS responsibility to consistently translate version information into a string that can be used for comparison and display. Since it is a string, and comparisons will not be made between strings from different DMS, the application does not have to be concerned that different DMS have different formats, meanings and capabilities for version, sub-version, branching and so on.

Attribute ID: ODM_DOCVERSION_LATEST
Data Type: String
Description: A null-terminated string which is the version ID for the Latest version of the document represented by lpszDocId .

Attribute ID: ODM_DOCVERSION_RELEASED
Data Type: String
Description: A null-terminated string which is the version ID for the Released version of the document represented by lpszDocId . If the DMS does not differentiate Released versions, return the version ID of the Latest version of the document.

Attribute ID: ODM_LOCATION
Data Type: String
Description: A null-terminated string containing DMS specific information describing the logical location (e.g. folder) of the document within the data store. The DMS should format the information in this attribute so that it can be safely displayed in a user-interface. The application should not assume the information in this attribute is persistent across ODMA sessions. A DMS may allow an application to set this attribute in ODMSetDocInfo only for documents that have not been created yet.

Attribute ID: ODM_KEYWORDS
Data Type: String
Description: A comma separated list of keywords assigned to the document.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Subject-Terms-Uncontrolled

Attribute ID: ODM_LASTCHECKINBY
Data Type: String
Description: Username of the last person to modify or check-in the document.

Attribute ID: ODM_LASTCHECKINDATE
Data Type: Date
Description: The date/time the document was last modified or checked-in.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Date/time last modified

Attribute ID: ODM_MODIFYDATE
Data Type: Date
Description: The data/time the document was last modified.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Date/time last modified

Attribute ID: ODM_MODIFYDATE_LATEST
Data Type: Date
Description: The date/time that the Latest version of the document was last modified.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Date/time last modified

Attribute ID: ODM_MODIFYDATE_RELEASED
Data Type: Date
Description: The date/time that the version of the document that is Released was last modified.  If the DMS does not differentiate Released versions, return the date/time that the Latest version of the document was last modified.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Date-Of-Publication

Attribute ID: ODM_NAME
Data Type: String
Description: Name of the document. This is a descriptive name for the document, not the filename.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Title

Attribute ID: ODM_OWNER
Data Type: String
Description: The owner of the document.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Distributor

Attribute ID: ODM_SUBJECT
Data Type: String
Description: The subject matter of the document.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Subject

Attribute ID: ODM_TITLETEXT
Data Type: String
Description: Suggested text to display in the document window's title bar. This may include one or more fields from the document's profile and possibly other information as well.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Resource-Description

Attribute ID: ODM_TITLETEXT_RO
Data Type: String
Description: Same as ODM_TITLETEXT, except if the document is currently opened by the calling application in ODM_VIEWMODE , the DMS should append " (Read-Only)" to the text.

Attribute ID: ODM_TYPE
Data Type: String
Description: Type of the document. This is typically an indication of the format or content of the document, i.e. correspondence, memo, contract, etc.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Content-type

Attribute ID: ODM_URL
Data Type: String
Description: Uniform Resource Locator (URL) which provides an alternative way to access the document. Note that a DMS can never truncate a URL if it is too long to fit into the caller supplied buffer.
ISO 23950/Bib-1 & GILS: Linkage


Schema for X.500 Green Pages

The schema for the X.500 directory is set forth in Appendix D of the X.500 Detailed Design document (Booz, Allen and Hamilton, p. 1-12). It comprises more than a hundred object classes, with attributes ranging from one to dozens per class. Among the object classes are two called "Document" and "Document Series". Seven attributes are specified for the Document Series object class:

1.Common Name

2.Description

3.Locality Name

4.Organization Name

5.Organization Unit Name

6.See Also

7.Telephone Number
 

Twenty attributes are identified for the Document object class:

1.Keyword

2.Audio

3.Document Author

4.Document Location

5.Document Publisher

6.Document Title

7.Document Version

8.Information

9.Last Modified Time

10.Last Modified By

11.Photo

12.Manager

13.Unique Identifier

14.Common Name

15.Description

16.Document Identifier

17.Locality Name

18.Organization Name

19.Organization Unit Name

20.See Also