UC Berkeley informatics staff have been identifying requirements and information schema for CollectionSpace's Place Authority. Discussions were held with experts representing cultural heritage and natural history collections. The resulting schema though large represents a common set of fields that can be used across a wide range of collection types. We anticipate that many deploying institutions will hide fields that are not useful to them. In fact, we might develop recommendations for this.
The Place Authority requirements on the CollectionSpace wiki are still met. In addition, we were meeting the local requirement:
- Allow users to capture and manage information about coordinates including information from georeferencing activities (whether by person or computer) used by mapping applications
Place Authority Schema, UCB version
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