Crosswalk for Audio / Video Works and Files

Guidelines for Media Works

• Name
• • Example: Convocation: Paul Wellstone - Education and Empowerment
  • Fully spell out words when possible -- used as visible name on site
  • Note: no need to place date in title
• Date Originally Created
• • Use the date the recording was originally made, if known
• Creator
• • Example: Phil Stark
  • Use the name of the person or entity that originally made the recording
  • Note: It is OK to leave this field empty if you don't know who made the recording
• Keywords
• • Example: Herbert Aptheker, Civil War, Marxism, History
  • Separate phrases with commas
  • Try to cover the general ideas addressed in the work
• Transcript
• • A fairly well-detailed description of the content of the recording
  • This does not have to be a word-for-word transcription
• Transcript Status
• • "Pending" = don't show the transcript (maybe it isn't ready)
  • "Published" = show the transcript
• Rights Statement
• • Unless we have a reason to do otherwise, use the Creative Commons Attribution license
  • Example: Some rights reserved. Carleton College licenses this work under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial/Share-alike 3.0 License.

Guidelines for Media Files

• Name
  • Example: 1992-02-28: Paul Wellstone Convo Part 5 (mp3)
  • Starts with YYYY-MM-DD
  • English name (not filename)
• Url
  • Example: http://something.carleton.edu/url_goes_here.mp3
  • Only need to enter URL when file is actually online
• Length
  • Example: 7 hr. 18 min. 37 sec.
  • Spelled-out hour/minute/second notation
  • spaces between numbers and units
• File Size
  • Example: 45.17 Mb
  • Space between number and unit
  • Lower-case "b"
• Quality
  • Example: 96 kbps/44.1 kHz/stereo
  • Spaces between numbers and units