Guide to Folklore Collecting Assignments

Podcast Metadata

Metadata is "data about data." An item of metadata may describe an individual item, content item or a collection of data including multiple content items. The word meta comes from the Greek meaning 'after' or 'beyond.' In epistemology, the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category); thus metadata is 'data about the data.' Because each podcast submitted to an instructor for inclusion in the Fife Folklore Archives will be cataloged in both a physical and online collection format, we must have metadata to describe each podcast.

Episode Title: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Interviewer (folklore student): ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Guest(s) (informant): __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Producer (technician, most likely student, but can be someone else): _______________________________________________________________________
Description (brief description of podcast, 3-5 lines): _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Subject (including guest name(s), folklore genre and if applicable: place, date(s), motif): _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Digitization Specifications (equipment & processes used to create podcast): ____________________________________________________________________
Semester [eg. Fall 2011]; Course Number and Professor/Instructor Name: _____________________________________________________________________

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