24 Newspaper
This digital record was created as if we were creating it from a physical copy of a historic newspaper. This is why the format was indicated as “print,” but this could vary depending on how you choose to create your record. We completed this record for the clipping “Cookeville Church Notes” in this November 17, 1921 issue of the Putnam County Herald.
We chose three subject headings that described the clipping from the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Using subject headings already created in a standardized thesaurus and can be used as a form of bibliographic control throughout all items that we might be creating Dublin Core Records for. These three chosen were chosen because one represents the form or genre of the item (Newspaper clippings), one heading represents the primary content of the item (Church attendance), and one that represents the coverage and where the church services are taking place (Tennessee, Middle).
The description was derived from skimming the article to understand the main purpose of the article and to help the user get a sense of the kind of information or the nature of the item without examining it in detail or reading the article in full.
The type we used here was used to convey the genre or specific format of the item being recorded in the Dublin Core record. “Newspaper article” conveys that the record is for just part of a whole newspaper issue rather than a record for the whole issue itself.
Because it is a newspaper clipping, we used the source to convey the issue that the clipping is from and the page number on which it is found.
We did not include a relation for this clipping. One example of where we might have included a relation is if the article itself referred to another article in the newspaper, was a follow up article from a previous issue, or had a follow up article in a future issue. If this was the case, we would have put the identifiers for the previous or following article in this element.
We used “Cookeville, Tennessee” as the coverage for the coverage for the record because the article specifically announces church services in Cookeville rather than all of Putnam County. If we had been creating a record for an issue, we might have included the coverage as Putnam County, Tennessee despite the main location of the paper being in Cookeville because the articles cover locations throughout Putnam County.
We included the creator as anonymous because there was no one specific listed as writing the article. The brackets are intended to indicate that the “Anonymous” was supplied by the record creator rather than included on the item itself.
The editor of the paper was listed as a contributor to the article because while the editor likely didn’t write the article itself, they probably looked it over before it was sent for publication.
This item is in the public domain. There may be copyright restrictions on the item and it’s crucial to indicate if there are copyright owners or restrictions in the rights section.
The date included is the date the issue in which the clipping appears was published.
The identifier was created by the people creating the record rather than being searched for in the clipping or in the newspaper in which the clipping was created. When creating this identifier, we imagine that the record was being created in the context of a general collection that include many different genres, formats, and more specifically, different newspaper publications. We chose this identifier to start with “per” to indicate that the item is a periodical, and then “pch” to indicate that the identifier represents something from the Putnam County Herald and the following number indicates the unique number assigned to that clipping. Theoretically, this is the first clipping we’ve identified that we are creating a record for from the Putnam County Herald and so we gave it the number one. Any clipping in the collection from that specific newspaper would include a different number, counting upwards by one.
The language was included as English because the article was written in English.
