Controlled Vocabulary for San Fernando Valley History Digital Library and Latino Cultural Heritage Digital Archives

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In order to support efficient retrieval of material, certain indexed fields in the metadata records are under authority control, that is, there is standard way to express a subject or topic, personal or corporate name, or location. Use the left button of your mouse to highlight the term you wish to search and copy it into the appropriate box on the search screen.

Below is a summary of which fields are under vocabulary control followed by a copy of the headings from Contentdm. Although the lists linked to this page in the right-hand column are updated at regular intervals, they will not necessarily contain all the terms that have been included in the database.

Field Name	Controlled Vocabulary	SFVH Terms	LCH Terms
Title	No	N/A	N/A
Description	No	N/A	N/A
Subject	Yes, Library of Congress Subject Headings	SFVH Subjects	LCH Subjects
Topic	Yes	Fixed List	N/A
Keywords	No	N/A	N/A
Neighborhood	Yes, Library of Congress Subject Headings or Thesaurus of Geographic Names	SFVH Neighborhoods	LCH Neighborhoods
Date	No, ISO standard	N/A	N/A
Alternative Dates	Yes, Library of Congress Subject Headings	SFVH Alt Dates	LCH Alt Dates
Photographer/Author/ Interviewee	Yes, Name Authority File	SFVH Authors	LCH Authors
Donors & Others	Yes, Name Authority File	SFVH Donors	LCH Donors
Media	Yes, AAT	SFVH Media	LCH Media
Media Measurement	No	N/A	N/A
Type	Yes, Dublin Core Types	SFVH Types	LCH Types
Format	Yes, Internet Media Types
Identifier	No	N/A	N/A
Language	No	N/A	N/A
Repository Name	Yes, see in house list	SFVH Repositories	LCH Repositories
Collection	Yes	SFVH Collections	LCH Collections
Repository Number	No	N/A	N/A
Call Number	No, Library of Congress Classification	N/A	N/A
Finding Aid	No	N/A	N/A
Rights	Template URL:	http://digital-library.csun.edu/SFV/copyright.html
Project Name	Template values:	San Fernando Valley History Digital Library.	Latino Cultural Heritage Digital Archives
Date Digitized	No, ISO standard	N/A	N/A
Publisher	Template value: California State University, Northridge. University Library.	N/A	N/A
Detailed View	GIF files will be placed in this web server folder:	http://digital-library.csun.edu/details/	N/A
Larger View	GIF files will be placed in this web server folder:	http://digital-library.csun.edu/details/	N/A

On the Web:

Library of Congress Subject, Name, and Title Authority headings http://authorities.loc.gov/
Name Authority File (WorldCat)
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Art and Architecture Thesaurus