UNT Technical Guidelines

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

Identifier Management

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

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

• UNTL Metadata Application Profile

• UNT Controlled Vocabularies

  • UNT Libraries’ Browse Subjects

• UNT Name App

• Curated title records for The Portal to Texas History and the UNT Digital Library

• Curated location records for The Portal to Texas History and the UNT Digital Library