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UNTL Metadata Documentation
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The UNT Libraries actively promotes metadata-based digital resource management, monitoring national and international standards-related activities and conducting research into the theoretical and practical applications of metadata.
Our goal is to provide optimum searching, discovery, and retrieval of information by users of our digital collections, while ensuring long-term preservation and viability of the digital objects in our systems. 
We employ a system of metadata developed in-house and based on qualified Dublin Core metadata elements that is called UNTL Metadata.

.. note::

   This project is under active development.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Getting Started:
   
   /guides/quick-start-guide

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Metadata Input Guidelines:

   /input-guidelines-descriptive
   /fields/title
   /fields/creator
   /fields/contributor
   /fields/publisher
   /fields/date
   /fields/language
   /fields/description
   /fields/subject
   /fields/primary-source
   /fields/coverage
   /fields/source
   /fields/citation
   /fields/relation
   /fields/collection
   /fields/institution
   /fields/rights
   /fields/resource-type
   /fields/format
   /fields/identifier
   /fields/degree
   /fields/note
   /fields/meta
   
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Content-Specific Guidelines

   /guides/serials
   /guides/correspondence
   
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Project-Specific Guidelines
   
   /guides/trail
   /guides/patent
   /guides/comr
      
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Supplementary Documentation

   /minimally-viable-records
   /primary-sources-definition
   /creator-contributor-definitions

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Technical Guidelines

   /technical-guidelines
   /technical/metadata-workflow
   
   

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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`