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UNT Technical Guidelines
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The pages in this section document technical and administrative aspects of UNT metadata.


Identifier Management
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UNT mints local identifiers for a number of uses, including all authority records.  For digital objects, 
UNT uses ARKs (archival resource keys) appended directly to the associated public or administrative URL in the format:
ark:/67531/{metaid}, where 67531 designates the organization (UNT) generating the ARK.

Every metaid is unique and assigned sequentially, under several domains:

+-----------+-------------------------------+
|Prefix     |Used for:                      |
+===========+===============================+
|metapth    |The Portal to Texas History    |
+-----------+-------------------------------+
|metadc     |UNT Digital Library &          |
|           |Gateway to Oklahoma History    |
+-----------+-------------------------------+
|coda       |BagIt information records      |
+-----------+-------------------------------+


Authority Control
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UNT maintains a number of controlled vocabularies and authority files to
augment metadata creation, including:

    -   controlled vocabularies for qualifiers and selected field values
    -   local name authority files (for people, organizations, events, software, and buildings)
    -   serial/series title records
    -   location records


External Links
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    -   `UNTL Metadata Application Profile <https://github.com/unt-libraries/untl_map>`_
    -   `UNT Controlled Vocabularies <https://digital2.library.unt.edu/vocabularies/>`_

	-	`UNT Libraries' Browse Subjects <https://digital2.library.unt.edu/subjects/>`_

    -   `UNT Name App <https://digital2.library.unt.edu/name/>`_
    -   Curated title records for `The Portal to Texas History <https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/titles/curated/>`__
        and the `UNT Digital Library <https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/titles/curated/>`__
    -   Curated location records for `The Portal to Texas History <https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/locations/curated/>`__
        and the `UNT Digital Library <https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/locations/curated/>`__