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BioCase uses a more extensive metadata schema, which will deliver a reasonable and satisfactory amount of search results (Kennedy, 2008). They have developed an MS Access based application called the National Node Data Input Tool to manage collection metadata.
The application collects metadata about the collection:
It also collects information about the organization doing the collecting:
One can also add any keywords that they would like to link to their collection for searching:
Furthermore, the application takes in other, like related links, papers, or even other collections.
We shall adhere to the Guidelines for National Node data entry when entering data, striving to structure our data in a logical, easily understandable, and uniform manner. Another goal shall be to capture the hierarchical structure involved in the data. One example of this may be when a collection houses a sub-collection within itself. Null fields, should they exist, will be left empty as advised.
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