Metadata Application Profile

Version 3 (2019)

The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) provides a portal (https://mwdl.org) to digital resources in universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, government agencies, and other entities in Utah, Nevada, and other parts of the Western United States.

MWDL collection managers and metadata creators use this application profile to guide creation of new metadata records.

Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments, Versioning, and Licensing

2. Best Practices

3. General Guidelines

4. Explanation of Element Tables

5. Element Tables

• contributor
• creator
• date
• description
• extent
• format
• identifier
• language
• medium
• publisher
• relation
• rights
• source
• spatial
• subject
• temporal
• title
• type