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Contribution Type: Comment

Mandatory Repeatable Edit Type Data Type Source Level Available Public Element
No Yes Read Only Variable Character Length (400) Catalog Community Member;
NARA Staff Member;
NARA Partner
Record Group
Collection
Series
File Unit
Item
Item AV
Digital Object
Person Name
Organization
Name
Yes

 

Definition: Comments are contextual information, knowledge, or additional details about the records not included in the archival description shared by a contributor.

 

Purpose: To allow Catalog users to supply additional context to descriptions and make digitized and born digital records more discoverable.

 

Relationship: Comments have an attribution type modifier and may have a related contributor name.

 

Guidance:

Comments are added to catalog descriptions and digital objects voluntarily by contributors including Citizen Archivists, staff, and NARA partners following the guidance provided on the Resources page and the Citizen Contributions Policy on Archives.gov.

 

Examples:

 

Description Title - Stockton, California. Young persons of Japanese ancestry, second and third generation Americans. T . . . (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/537722)
Comment - This is a picture of my father, George Shoji Tabuchi, pictured in the middle wearing a hat. He is playing with his friends who have just been sent to the Stockton Relocation Center at the San Joaquin Fairgrounds.
Contributor Username - jimtabuchi

 



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