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The document is a statement by Emma Rose reflecting on her process of harvesting metadata from the Library of Congress for two Japanese prints and creating corresponding records in her OMEKA site. She notes some inconsistencies between her application profile and the OMEKA fields, such as different mappings for format and measurements. Comparing her records to the harvested Library of Congress records, she found they contained similar but not identical information, with some fields left blank. She also notes the challenge of searching for an item when its title contains non-English characters.

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Assignment 4 Crosswalk

The document is a statement by Emma Rose reflecting on her process of harvesting metadata from the Library of Congress for two Japanese prints and creating corresponding records in her OMEKA site. She notes some inconsistencies between her application profile and the OMEKA fields, such as different mappings for format and measurements. Comparing her records to the harvested Library of Congress records, she found they contained similar but not identical information, with some fields left blank. She also notes the challenge of searching for an item when its title contains non-English characters.

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Emma Rose

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LIS 643: Assignment #4


My OMEKA site: http://emrose2.omeka.net/
Statement
Thoughts before viewing the harvested items:
I began this assignment by carefully reviewing the two items on the Library of Congress
website. Then I went back and forth between my application profile, the Library of Congress
record, and the record I was in the process of creating on the OMEKA website. As I was filling
in the information I noticed that my application profile was lacking some of the elements which
are on the OMEKA website for DC record creation such as Publisher, Contributor, and
Coverage. For these elements, I simply left them blank and moved on because I had already
failed in adding them to my application profile and have learned from this oversight. I also left
the Creator field blank on the OMEKA site because I was unable to find the source of who
created the images. I was tempted at certain points to fill in the blank with Library of Congress
yet I didnt feel that this would be correct because while the Library of Congress was the creator
of the metadata and the record it was not the creator of the Japanese Print. There were a couple
of elements in my application profile which did not apply to Dublin Core smoothly. I filled in the
information for one of these items on the table below but did not add it to the OMEKA item
record information because the element did not exist there, the element was cultural context.
The elements surrounding format were a little tricky. In my application, the VRA Core 4.0
Format element became the Format.Medium element in Dublin Core, yet the VRA Core 4.0
Measurements element became the Format.Extent element in Dublin Core. I used the
Format.Extent element information to fill in the box on the OMEKA item. So what was
format on my application profile holds different information than the format element on the

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OMEKA site. I thought this was interesting but confusing. Im not sure that it was completely
necessary but I added the images to my items on OMEKA because I thought it made for a more
complete item record.
Comparing my items records to the harvested items records:

Item #1: Commodore Perry in Japan


Its hard to say if the harvested record or my record had more information. The set up and
style are different. There were more unfilled elements in the harvested record. While I left
creator, publisher, contributor and coverage blank, the harvested record left these items, plus
source, format and relation blank as well. Yet, other elements in the harvested record had more
information than what I added such as the type, description and subject elements. I feel that I
should have added this extra information in and that that was an oversight on my part. But I do
feel that my record is a little more aesthetically pleasing. One flat-out inconsistency was that I
inputted my language as eng to represent that the record was in English but, silly me, I should
have put jpn because the items are Japanese and the second record even has Japanese and only
Japanese writing on it.

Item #2: Amerikatsjin


The very most vital difference for this item is that the title I used was the Amerikatsjin
instead of the English translation of the word which is Americans and is the title that the
harvested record uses. This caused some issues for me when searching for the item among the
harvested collection, Fine Prints, Japanese, Pre-1915 I continuously searched for the Japanese
title and did not come up with the correct item. I eventually tried searching for the English title
and that turned up seven pages of results. I got excited when I notice that one of the items on the
first page had the title of Americans but when I reviewed the item I realize it was a different

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item than the Amerikatsujin item. The item I created showed up on page two and the harvested
item I was searching for didnt show up until page four. I feel that this could potentially be a big
problem. The title that the harvested item also had a period after the word Americans(.) and this
may have skewed the results as well. Interestingly/frustratingly, I put a both titles and my
English title Americans also has a period right after the word. Im sure thats because it has a
period right after the word on the Library of Congress website. Which is the right way of putting
that title, period or no period? I find this question interesting. I feel like accessibility is key in
producing metadata and being unable to easily find a particular item could cause serious
detriment to the usability of the information in that record. When I found the correct record I
immediately edited it to make it public but did not change anything else. This way I could find
the item very easily by simply setting the quick filter to Public. I did this with the first item as
well so that when I apply that filter the only four items that appear are the ones I am reviewing
and comparing.
My findings for the content of the second harvested item was similar to the first. The
items that were blank in the first item were blank in the second item and the other information
was copied word for word (and symbol for symbol). Again, the harvested item had a little more
information in a couple fewer elements and was, in my opinion, less pleasing to the eye than the
record that I created for the item.
I definitely believe that the best way to learn how to do anything is to get your hands on it
and try it for yourself. Especially a complicated processes such as creating and harvesting
metadata, being able to have the opportunity to attempt it yourself really helps one grasp the
ideas and issues that professionals run into when developing and sharing metadata.

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VRA Core 4.0

Group #6 Application Profile

Elements

(as a source schema)

Dublin Core Elements

Item #1: Commodore Perry in Japan


agent

Creator

Title

Commodore Perry in

Title

Commodore Perry in

Japan

Japan

language

eng

language

eng

date

between 1850 and 1900

Date.Created

between 1850 and 1900

location

Coverage.Spatial

material

1 print on hsho paper :

Format.Extent

1 print on hsho paper :

woodcut, color ;
measurements

35.5 x 11 cm. (block),


40.7 x 15 cm. (sheet)

woodcut, color ;
35.5 x 11 cm. (block),
40.7 x 15 cm. (sheet)

relation

Chadbourne collection of

Relation

Japanese prints

Chadbourne collection
of Japanese prints

cultural context

Japanese

work type

Image

type

Image

rights

No known restrictions on

Rights

No known restrictions

publication
source

Library of Congress

on publication
Relation.IsReference

Library of Congress

dBy
subject

description

Perry, Matthew

subject

Perry, Matthew

Calbraith

Calbraith

Japan Military Officers

Japan Military Officers

Japanese print shows

description

Japanese print shows

Emma Rose

identifier

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full-length portrait of

full-length portrait of

Commander Matthew

Commander Matthew

Perry in uniform

Perry in uniform

http://www.loc.gov/pictu

Resource Identifier

res/item/2002700116/
format

Portrait prints

http://www.loc.gov/pict
ures/item/2002700116/

Format.Medium

Portrait prints

Item #2: Amerikatsjin


agent

Creator

Title

Amerikatsjin

Title

Amerikatsjin

language

eng

language

eng

date

between 1800 and 1899

Date.Created

between 1800 and 1899

location

Coverage.Spatial

material

1 print on hsho paper :

Format.Extent

1 print on hsho paper :

woodcut, b&w
measurements

14.5 x 20.0 (block), 18 x


23.5 cm. (sheet)

woodcut, b&w
14.5 x 20.0 (block), 18
x 23.5 cm. (sheet)

relation

Chadbourne collection of

Relation

Japanese prints
cultural context

Japanese

Chadbourne collection
of Japanese prints

American
work type

Image

type

Image

rights

No known restrictions on

Rights

No known restrictions

publication
source

Library of Congress

on publication
Relation.IsReference
dBy

Library of Congress

Emma Rose
subject

description

identifier

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America

subject

Japan

Japan

Military Personnel

Military Personnel

Japanese print with text

description

Japanese print with text

shows an American

shows an American

naval personnel (?) with

naval personnel (?) with

a Japanese person (?)

a Japanese person (?)

apparently feeling jolly.

apparently feeling jolly.

http://www.loc.gov/pictu

Resource Identifier

res/item/2002700118/
format

America

prints

http://www.loc.gov/pict
ures/item/2002700118/

Format.Medium

prints

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