Data Dictionary
General Fields
Field Name / Field Group | Resource Types | Grouped | Controlled Vocab | Multiple Allowed | Description | Example | ||
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Basic Information (High-level information about the nature, type, and location of the resource.) | ||||||||
Title | ALL |
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| A descriptive (or formal) title for the project or information resource. For maximum utility, full titles should be used instead of acronyms. Poor titles include “dataset,” “coding sheet.” | Cibola Archaeological Research Project Faunal Database. | ||
Year Created | ALL |
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| Four digit year - If your resource does not have a date published, please use the year the image was taken, or document was created. | 1966, 2005 | ||
Description | ALL |
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| A brief summary or abstract (200-300 words) of the project or information resource (or alternative process) from which the data collection arose |
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Project Name | All except for projects. |
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| The project to which the resource belongs | The Archaeology of Kennewick Man, Rudd Creek Archaeological Project | ||
Status | ALL |
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| A piece of administrative metadata that controls the resource’s status within the archive | Options are: ACTIVE | ||
Publisher | All except for projects ( thesis / dissertation & presentation) |
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| The name of the document publisher | Alta Mira Press | ||
Publisher Location | All except for projects ( thesis / dissertation & presentation) |
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| The location of the publisher | Lanham, MD | ||
File Information | ||||||||
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| The file you are uploading |
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| The description of the file |
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| The Date the File was created |
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| Access Restrictions |
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| PUBLIC – viewable and downloadable by any logged in user EMBARGOED – will be public after a specified period (6 months, 1 year, 2 years, and five years) CONFIDENTIAL – useful for files that have site locations, will never be made public automatically. |
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Author / Creator (Names of individuals and institutions who contributed to the resource. This category repeats as a group of fields.) | ||||||||
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First Name | ALL | YES |
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| The first name of the creator - Middle names and initials should also be included here | Robert, James T., Abe Graham | ||
Last Name | ALL | YES |
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| The last name of the creator |
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| The last known contact email for the creator |
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Affiliated Institution | ALL | YES |
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| The last known institutional affiliation for the creator |
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Role | ALL | YES | YES |
| The role that the creator performed for the resource (see Resource Creator Roles for list and definitions) |
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Institution | ||||||||
Institution Name | ALL | YES |
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| The name of the institution |
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Role | ALL | YES | YES |
| The role that the institution performed for the resource (see Resource Creator Roles for list and definitions) | Author, editor, translator | ||
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| The Email Address for an institution |
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Identifiers - Item Specific or Agency Identifiers (This category repeats as a group of fields) | ||||||||
Identifier Name | All except coding sheets and ontologies | YES |
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| Name of any agency or project identifier | ASU Accession Number, Smithsonian Trinomial, TNF Project Code | ||
Identifier Value | All except coding sheets and ontologies | YES |
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| A list of the specific identifiers known for the resource | 45WH53, AZ U:15:2 | ||
Investigation Types (A list of the investigation types relevant to the resource. Select the investigation types that most closely correspond to the nature of the effort that produced the project or information resource.) | ||||||||
Keywords | ALL |
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| Archaeological Overview, Site Stabilization, Research Design/Data Recovery Plan | ||
Site Information (The names, types, and other information about the sites.) | ||||||||
Site Name | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| YES | A list of the site names associated with the resource - If the project or information resource is primarily focused on one or a few sites, list relevant site names or numbers (e.g., AZ Q:4:13(ASM); Hinkson Site) that would help a user locate the digital object. | Ridge Ruin, Broken Chal Site, Woodstock Farm | ||
Site Type | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
| YES | YES | A list of the site feature types associated with the resource | Domestic Structure:Settlement:Encampment, Archaeological Feature:Midden:Shell Midden | ||
Additional Keywords | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| YES | A list of user-submitted site type keywords not found in the controlled fields |
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Material Types (A list of the artifact material types collected or analyzed for a project or specifically reported, analyzed, assayed, or otherwise described for an information resource.) | ||||||||
Material Types | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
| YES | YES | A list of controlled artifact material types. | Ceramic, Fauna, Ground Stone, Glass | ||
Additional Material Types |
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| YES | A list of user-submitted material types |
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Cultural Terms (Keywords listing the past societies associated with artifacts and features mentioned in the resource.) | ||||||||
Cultural Term | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
| YES | YES | A list of the archaeological "cultures" associated with the resource | PaleoIndian:Folsom, Woodland:Middle Woodland, Historic:Chinese American | ||
Additional Cultural Terms | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| YES | A list of user-submitted cultural keywords not found in the controlled fields |
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Temporal Coverage (The time period spanned by the resource.) | ||||||||
Coverage Dates | All except coding sheets and ontologies | YES |
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| Date Type | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| The kind of date - This will determine if negative dates (e.g. -1150) are interpreted as B.P. or BCE. | Calendar date, radiocarbon date | |
Start Date | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| Earliest date affiliated with the resource - Only integer values are allowed | -1800, 1873 | ||
End Date | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| Latest date affiliated with the resource - Only integer values are allowed | -700, 200 | ||
Description | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| A description listing any pertinent information for the dates | "Date taken from charcoal samples. 2 sigma confidence interval." | ||
Temporal Terms | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| YES | A list of temporal terms relevant to the resource | Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis | ||
General Keywords (A list of any useful keywords not found in other categories (i.e., not covered by investigation type, site type, site name, culture, material, temporal or geographic terms) that would assist a user in identifying the project or information resource as one of interest.) | ||||||||
Keyword | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis | ||
Spatial Terms (A description of the geographical area covered by the resource.) | ||||||||
Geographic Keyword | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| YES | A list of geographic terms that would help a user identify the project or information resource as one of interest | Death Valley, Kauai, Colorado Plateau, Lower Illinois River Valley | ||
Coordinates | All except coding sheets and ontologies | YES |
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| Identify the approximate region of this resource by clicking on "Select Region" and drawing a bounding box on the map | Note: to protect site security, tDAR obfuscates all bounding boxes, especially bounding boxes smaller than 1 mile. The 'edit' view will always show the exact coordinates. | ||
Latitude (max) | All except coding sheets and ontologies |
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| Maximum latitude of area related to the resource | 049°23'48, 53 08 50N, -73.9864 | ||
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