The National Archives Catalog

Attribution Type: Partner Name

Mandatory Repeatable Edit Type Data Type Source Level Available Public Element
No Yes Read Only Variable Character Length (100) NARA Partner Comment
Location Name Elements
Prefix
First Name
Middle Name
Surname
Suffix
Occupation
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Transcription
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Validation
Tag
Transcription
Translation
Yes

 

Definition:

Contributions created by one of NARA’s partners that is given or loaned to NARA in order to enhance Catalog content are modified by a Partner Name. The enhanced content may have been donated to NARA by the partner.

 

 

Purpose: To provide additional metadata to make content in the Catalog more discoverable and affiliated with a partner name as the source.

 

Relationship: Partner Name can be associated with the various contribution types (for example, tags, locations, and name elements) and additional partner metadata provided to support indexing.

 

Guidance:

Partner contributed metadata is added to catalog descriptions and digital objects by staff in agreement with the NARA partner who is making the contributions available to NARA.

 

Examples:

 

Description - General Index to Civil War and Later Pension Files, ca. 1949–ca. 1949 (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/563268)
Partner supplied metadata for items within the series - Name
Unit
Date
Relationship to filer
 

 



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