A list of important metadata fields for metadata records in the Digital Commonwealth repository.
See SolrDocument field reference: public API for a full list of available fields.
See the Digital Commonwealth API Guide for information on how to access metadata records.
Field names ending in "m" are multivalued.
| JSON field | Description |
|---|---|
| title_info_primary_tsi | The primary title of the item |
| title_info_primary_subtitle_tsi | The subtitle of the item |
| title_info_alternative_tsim | Any alternative titles for the item |
| abstract_tsi | A textual description of the item content |
| subject_facet_ssim | Subject terms (keywords) for the item content, usually drawn from Library of Congress subject headings or other standardized vocabularies/thesauri |
| subject_geographic_sim | Names of geographic locations associated with the item, usually drawn from the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names or GeoNames |
| genre_basic_ssim | Terms broadly describing the item's format (photograph, map, document, etc.) |
| genre_specific_ssim | Terms specifically describing the item's format (daguerrotype, silkscreen, etc.) |
| name_facet_ssim | Names of persons or organizations associated with the item's creation |
| name_role_tsim | Terms describing the roles of persons associated with the item's creation (photographer, artist, etc.) |
| date_tsim | Human readable date (or date range) for the item's creation or publication |
| date_start_dtsi | Start of the date range for the item's creation or publication (ISO 8601 format) |
| date_end_dtsi | End of the date range for the item's creation or publication (ISO 8601 format) |
| publisher_tsi | Name of the person or organization responsible for the item's publication |
| collection_name_ssim | The name of the digital collection that the item belongs to in the repository |
| physical_location_ssim | The name of the organization that holds the original physical (or digital) item |
| related_item_host_ssim | The name of the physical collection that the item come from at it's holding organization |
| type_of_resource_ssim | Terms broadly describing the item's format (Still image, Text, etc.) |
| note_* | There are many types of note fields, providing further information about the item's provenance, physical condition, date, etc. |
| table_of_contents_tsi | Table of contents for the item |