Below are _meta.xml fields that have special meaning on archive.org.
definition: Collection contents are restricted access
usage notes: This tag is only used on items of mediatype collection (it will have no affect on items of any other type). This tag should only be assigned by internal IA admins.
label: Access Restricted Item
definition: Identifies item that is access-restricted
usage notes: Only used on items, not collections. Automatically added to items in an access-restricted collection at the end of any task.
definition: Allows deriver to skip a page that would otherwise disrupt OCR
edit access: not editable
label: Date Added to Public Search
definition: 2019-12 and later dates: represents time item was added to public search engine. Earlier dates: Date and time in UTC that the item was created archive.org
accepted values: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS YYYY-MM-DD
usage notes: Beginning in December 2019 when item was first added to public search engine. It is added during the first task where the item does not have noindex present in meta.xml. The field is not changed or removed if the item is subsequently removed from public search. Prior to December 2019, Addeddate was automatically set when the item directory is been created in our file system. In many cases, the addeddate will be very similar to the publicdate. However, in some cases we create an item directory with metadata but no media files prior to the media being scanned. The addeddate reflects when the item was created, regardless of when the media was added to the item. When the media is added at a later date and a derive.php task is run, the publicdate will be added to the item.
example: 2017-03-28 22:05:46
definition: Collection will generally be suppressed from public display, e.g. in facets, membership lists on Collection/Details pages, etc.
usage notes: Only used by internal IA admins
definition: Ratio of the pixel width and height of a video stream
usage notes: Standard values for this field are 4:3 and 16:9, but other values are possible.
definition: Program used to decode audio stream
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
definition: Samples per second
accepted values: Whole number
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
definition: Indicates that the derive module should create a higher quality PDF derivative (distinguishes text from background better).
usage notes: This field is either set to the value true, or is not included in meta.xml. If this field is included after the initial derive is run, user should also run a derive task to create the better quality PDF.
label: Bookreader defaults
definition: Indicates whether the bookreader should display one or two pages by default
accepted values: mode/1up mode/2up mode/thumb
usage notes: The bookreader defaults to showing books in 2up mode, so this field is generally only used to indicate that an item should be displayed in 1up mode (showing only one page at a time in the bookreader).
definition: Location of physical item in the Physical Archive
accepted values: IA######
usage notes: Boxids always start with the letters IA followed by numbers. The numbers represent the container, pallet and box that the physical item is stored in. When there are multiple boxid fields in meta.xml, the first boxid listed represents the physical item that was digitized. Subsequent boxid fields represent the location of duplicate physical items.
label: Black and White OCR
definition: Allows deriver to OCR specific pages as B&W if color is causing failure.
accepted values: page number or range, e.g. 001
definition: Contributing library’s local call number
example: 6675707, NC 285.1 P9287m
definition: Camera model used during digitization process
label: Closed Captioning Number
definition: Indicates which closed captioning file should be used for display and search
accepted values: cc# asr ocr #
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items. Closed captioning files are stored as [identifier].cc#.txt in the item. This tag indicates which cc# file to display in item and use for search indexing.
definition: Indicates whether item contains closed captioning files
usage notes: Field is generally only present when the video has closed captioning. When captioning is not present, the field may have “no” as the value, or just not be included in meta.xml
definition: Indicates to the website what collection(s) this item belongs to.
accepted values: Must be a valid identifier
usage notes: Required for all items except “fav-username” collections.
Always list the item’s primary collection first in meta.xml; this is the collection the item “belongs” to. The primary collection often represents the entity that contributed or created the content.
Uploaders can only choose from collections that they have privileges for. General uploaders with no special privs can only upload to selected “Community” collections or the test_collection. Items in the test_collection are removed from the site after 30 days.
Parent collections:
If the parent collections of an item’s collections are not already included in the item’s own collection list, they will be automatically added (at the end of the next task on the item).
Here, more specifically, is how that addition takes place:
All of the item’s currently listed collections are considered in turn. For each of them, we trace its ancestry all the way up to the top-level collection (usually a mediatype); in tracing ancestry, we consider only the primary (first-listed) parent collection at each step. If the original item is itself a collection, we include the top-level collection, otherwise we don’t. Any collection we encounter during this traversal of the hierarchy that isn’t already in the item’s collection list gets added to the end of the list.
For example, if the original item starts with collections A and B listed, we find A’s primary parent (call it A-P), that collection’s primary parent (A-P-P), etc., until we hit a mediatype; all of those that aren’t already listed get added, including the mediatype if the item itself is a collection. Then we do the same for B and its primary parent B-P, B-P-P, etc.
definition: Indicates whether media is in color or black and white
usage notes: Most used values are: color, B&W (black and white) Mostly used for video items, indicates whether video is color or black and white. Can be used to indicate different kinds of color (e.g. Kodachrome).
definition: condition of media
accepted values: Mint Near Mint Very Good Good Fair Worn Poor Fragile Incomplete
usage notes: Defines the condition of the media in an item. In 78s and LPs this indicates the condition of the disc or media file. For sets with multiple discs, use the condition of the lowest grade disc in the set.
definition: condition of the artwork or printed materials that accompany a media item
accepted values: Mint Near Mint Very Good Good Fair Worn Poor Fragile Incomplete None Unknown
usage notes: Defines the condition of the artwork or printed materials that accompany the media in an item. In LPs this is used for album covers and sleeves. “Incomplete” should be used when we know that artwork/printed materials are missing. “None” should be used when the item has no artwork/printed materials and we know it is not supposed to have any. “Unknown” should be used when artwork/printed material MAY be missing, but we cannot verify.
definition: The person or organization that provided the physical or digital media.
usage notes: For physical items that have been digitized, contributor represents the library or other organization that owns the physical item. For born-digital media, contributor often represents the organization responsible for the distribution of the content (e.g. a radio station or television station).
example: Robarts - University of Toronto
definition: Geographic or subject area covered by item
usage notes: The preferred use of this field is to signify a geographical location that relates to the item. For example, in the TV and radio collections, we use the ISO 3166 location code for the country and state/territory of the station being recorded.
definition: The individual(s) or organization that created the media content.
usage notes: For items provided by libraries, the creator is often listed using the Library of Congress Name Authority Headings, http://authorities.loc.gov/ For items from other sources, the creator is often listed as first name and surname. When an item was created by an organization, such as a government agency or a production company, use the full name of the organization. This field represents the entity who created the media, not the person who uploaded the media to archive.org (though these may be the same person). All alphabets supported.
example: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, Ralph Burns
label: Creator Alternate Script
definition: Curation state and notes
usage notes: Curation is a compound field with “sub-fields”: curator, date, state, and comment. - Curator is the email address of the person who added the curation tag. - Date is the UTC time and date the curation tag was added, in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format. - State can be: dark, approved, freeze, un-dark or blank - Comment can be a code used by the scanning center team to indicate issues found during QA, or a text string with some other curation comment (e.g. information about why an item was frozen or made dark). Items uploaded into open collections are generally checked by malware detection software, and the curation field will contain the results of that check.
example: [curator]lenscriv@archive.org[/curator][date]20160504125613[/date][state]approved[/state][comment]199[/comment], [curator]malware@archive.org[/curator][date]20140321085621[/date][comment]checked for malware[/comment]
definition: Date of publication
usage notes: We encourage people to use YYYY, YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD for this field, but sometimes exact dates are not possible to determine. Other common usages: [YYYY] (brackets) when a date is not certain; c.a. YYYY (c.a.) when a date is approximate; and [n.d.] when a date is unknown (you may also leave the field blank in this case). If an item has a date range, such as YYYY-YYYY, we currently index only the first date in the range. Books, movies, and CDs often only have YYYY for a publication date. Magazines often have YYYY-MM for a publication date. Concerts and articles often have YYYY-MM-DD publication dates. Use the most specific verifiable date you have access to. When the item is a digitial representation of a physical piece of media (e.g. a book, a 78rpm disc, etc.) the publication date should represent the date that the specific physical item was published. A book may have been written in 1850, and then an edition was republished in 1885. If the digitized version is the edition republished in 1885, use 1885 as the publication date (not 1850).
example: 1965, 2013-05-25, [n.d.]
definition: Describes the media stored in the item.
accepted values: String, can contain links, formatting and images in html/css. Currently, with Collections, it can also contain raw Javascript, but we plan to remove this soon.
usage notes: May be about the media content (e.g. a description of the book’s plot), the physical item it represents (e.g. missing or damaged pages in the physical book that was digitized), the creator of the media (e.g. author biographical info that relates to the book), or any other information that may help a user understand the item or its context. All alphabets are supported.
example: Cinemascope homage to the city of San Francisco made by amateur filmmaker and inventor Tullio Pellegrini.
definition: URLs or identifiers to outside resources that represent the media
usage notes: External-identifier includes Uniform Resource Names (URNs) for external resources about the media in the item. The field is usually in the form of urn:namespace:identifier.
example: urn:publisher_catalog_id:88697 03614 2, urn:pubcat:victor:18890-B, urn:spotify:album:3jmETApVCjXb3hWTR1IEdH, urn:asin:0451531396, acs:epub:urn:uuid:d935586b-72a7-4720-bbb9-72fe75eae0e1, urn:acs6:blackreconstruc00dubo:epub:38413c16-074b-4fb6-a4dc-25e93e199d5f, urn:mb_artist_id:6de0f914-3e60-4418-be3b-42e0feb6eb4d, urn:X-pwacrawlid:AWP5
label: External Identifier
definition: Creation date of the earliest file contained in the item
accepted values: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
usage notes: Primarily used for WARC items
definition: To change the ppi to a specific resolution. Usually lower especially when jp2.zip fails
definition: Number of fold outs captured by operator
accepted values: Whole number
usage notes: Fold outs are photographed on machinery other than the Scribe. This field indicates how many foldouts were captured. The value may be 0 or higher.
definition: For partner-funded scanned books (no boxid), this allows a MARC record in the item to overwrite metadata fields in meta.xml
usage notes: When this field is NOT present for partner scanned books (no boxid), metadata from a MARC record will only be used to automatically fill in EMPTY metadata fields in meta.xml, and fields that already have metadata in them will be left as-is. Adding force-update to the item causes MARC to overwrite all fields that can be extracted, regardless of whether they already contain information or not.
definition: Frequency at which consecutive images are displayed
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
definition: Limits access based on ISO-2 Country Code
definition: Hides collection from top level navigation
usage notes: This tag only functions on items of mediatype collection.
definition: Unique identifier for an item on the archive.org web site. Used in the URL for the item, ie archive.org/details/[identifier].
accepted values: String, minimum length is 5 characters, maximum length is 100 characters, contains only Roman alphabet characters, numbers, periods (.), underscores ( _ ), or dashes ( - ), and first character must be alphanumeric. mediatype:account items begin with @ symbol.
usage notes: We encourage the use of human-readable identifiers, rather than opaque strings of numbers or letters. For most projects we try to keep identifiers below 80 characters in length for the sake of readability.
example: SanFrancisco1955CinemascopeFilm
definition: Archival Resource Key identifier
accepted values: ark:/NAAN/Name
usage notes: ARKs are URLs designed to support long-term access to information objects. We store the ark:/NAAN/Name portion of the URL in meta.xml. This can be tacked on to any ARK resolver’s domain to resolve the ARK, i.e. http://n2t.net/. Read about ARKs: http://n2t.net/e/ark_ids.html ARK specification: http://n2t.net/e/arkspec.txt
example: ark:/13960/t4rj5fk7h
definition: Additional local identifiers
usage notes: Fields for many identifiers exist in the schema, including isbn, issn, oclc, and call_number. The identifier-bib field is used for additional local identifiers that don’t have a place elsewhere in metadata. These identifiers are unique to the institution providing the item.
definition: Imagecount gives an indication of the size of the content of an item (outside of file size, which is represented in the size field). Originally used only for books, the field has been repurposed over time to provide similar information for other mediatypes.
accepted values: Positive whole number
usage notes: Texts: represents number of page images in the item TV: represents number of seconds of video in the item Web: represents number of URIs captured in the WARCs in the item CD: number of images of physical item and accompanying materials
definition: ISBN-10 or ISBN-13
accepted values: String of 10 or 13 digits. Final digit can be [0-9] or ‘X’
usage notes: https://www.iso.org/standard/65483.html https://www.isbn.org/faqs_general_questions#isbn_faq5
example: 3540212507, 031294716X
accepted values: String of 2 groups of four digits separated by a hyphen. Final digit can be [0-9] or ‘X’
usage notes: ISSNs are identifying numbers for serials. See https://www.issn.org/understanding-the-issn/what-is-an-issn/ for clarification.
example: 2528-7788, 1943-345X
definition: The language the media is written or recorded in.
usage notes: For items provided by libraries, the language is often provided as a 3 letter MARC language code (e.g. eng), https://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/ For other items, the language is often written out as the full name (e.g. English). Not all items have a language associated with them (e.g. instrumental music), but when there is written or spoken language we are able to do some sorts of processing better when we know the language. To skip OCR on an item, set the value to None When an item contains no OCRable content, you will sometimes see the language set to zxx. Language is particularly important for text items so that we can do the best job with optical character recognition processing.
example: eng, Italian, None
definition: Date of creation of oldest file in the item
accepted values: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
usage notes: Primarily used for WARC items
definition: Library of Congress Call Number
accepted values: Whole number
usage notes: https://www.loc.gov/marc/lccn_structure.html
definition: URL of the selected license
usage notes: This link should point to a recognized license, like Creative Commons or GNU. For other types of rights statements, use the rights field.
example: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/
definition: restricting the incorporation of MARC-extracted metadata to fields that currently have no value (“insert only” behavior),
usage notes: there are certain classes of item for which we insert MARC-extracted metadata only where no value currently exists in the item metadata for that field, so that we won’t overwrite any existing metadata. if their items are readily identifiable, the same restriction can be applied to those items.
definition: Mediatype tells us about the main content of the item. It is used to determine how the item is displayed on the web site and may trigger special processing depending on the types of files contained in the item.
accepted values: texts etree audio movies software image data web collection account
usage notes: texts: books, articles, newspapers, magazines, any documents with content that contains text etree: live music concerts, items should only be uploaded for artists with collections in the etree “Live Music Archive” community audio: any item where the main media content is audio files, like FLAC, mp3, WAV, etc. movies: any item where the main media content is video files, like mpeg, mov, avi, etc. software: any item where the main media content is software intended to be run on a computer or related device such as gaming devices, phones, etc. image: any item where the main media content is image files (but is not a book or other text item), like jpeg, gif, tiff, etc. data: any item where the main content is not media or web pages, such as data sets web: any item where the main content is copies of web pages, usually stored in WARC or ARC format collection: designates the item as a collection that can “contain” other items account: designates the item as being a user account page, can only be set by internal archive systems
definition: Prevents RePublisher from removing noindex at the end of the texts digitization process.
usage notes: Only used on internally digitized texts items. Normally when a text finishes the RePublisher process, the noindex tag is removed and the book is added to the public search engine. The neverindex tag prevents the removal of noindex, so books with nevrindex set to true should not end up in the public search engine.
definition: IA identifier of next item from a recorded feed
accepted values: identifier
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
example: BBCNEWS_20121204_090000_BBC_News
definition: Keeps books out of open library
definition: Prevents item from being indexed in public archive.org search engine
usage notes: While the accepted practice is to have a value of “true” for this tag, the mere presence of the tag in meta.xml will actually cause the same effect regardless of the value used (including empty). In addition to not being included in the public archive.org search engine, the noindex tag will also cause the item to not be listed in the sitemap.
definition: additional notes about the item
usage notes: Use the description field to describe the media stored in an item. The notes field is for additional information like condition of othe physical item, technical notes about digitization, or similar.
definition: Identifier of same edition in OCLC records
definition: Software package and version used for optical character recognition
usage notes: Set during derivation process.
example: ABBYY FineReader 8.0
label: Open Library Identifier
definition: Deprecated. Open Library edition identifier
usage notes: This field is deprecated. Please use openlibrary_edition.
label: Open Library author
definition: Open Library author
usage notes: Correlates to the edition page on openlibrary.org. The OL edition page URL is https://openlibrary.org/books/[openlibrary_edition]
label: Open Library edition identifier
definition: Open Library edition identifier
usage notes: Correlates to the edition page on openlibrary.org. The OL edition page URL is https://openlibrary.org/books/[openlibrary_edition]
label: Open Library subject
definition: Open Library subject
usage notes: This field is currently used to supply books for carousels on the openlibrary.org home page. At some point it will also be used to import subjects from the openlibrary_work associated with the item.
example: openlibrary_staff_picks
label: Open Library work identifier
definition: Open Library work identifier
usage notes: Correlates to the work page on openlibrary.org. The OL work page URL is https://openlibrary.org/works/[openlibrary_edition]
definition: Email of the person who scanned/captured the media in the item
usage notes: usually email address. In texts this represents the person who operated the Scribe or other scanning equipment. In web items this represents the engineer responsible for the crawl.
example: associate-stephanie-kinsey@archive.org
definition: Determines direction pages will be “turned” in a book
usage notes: lr = left to right rl = right to left
possible-copyright-status
label: Possible Copyright Status
definition: Information relevant to copyright status
usage notes: Do not use this field for CC license information (see licenseurl).
example: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Library is unaware of any copyright restrictions for this item.
definition: Pixels per inch
accepted values: Positive whole number
usage notes: Indicates pixels per inch for an image. The most common use case is Internet Archive digitization centers. This number is set during the book scanning process.
definition: IA identifier of previous item from a recorded feed
accepted values: identifier
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
example: BBCNEWS_20121204_060000_Breakfast
definition: Collection file formats that are available to users in an Access Restricted collection
usage notes: This tag only affects items of mediatype collection and must be used in conjunction with the access-restricted tag. This tag should only be assigned by internal IA admins.
edit access: not editable
definition: The date and time in UTC that the item was created on archive.org.
accepted values: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS YYYY-MM-DD
example: 2011-12-25 19:01:43
usage notes: Publicdate is automatically set when the first catalog task finishes on that item’s directory.
definition: Publisher of the media
example: New York : R.R. Bowker Co.
usage notes: - Books use publisher - Movies often use production company - Music often uses record label
label: Related Collection
definition: Adds links to related collection on a collection’s “About” page
accepted values: Identifier
label: Related External Identifier
definition: URLs or identifiers to resources related to the media, but not representing this exact form of the work
usage notes: Related-external-id includes URNs for media related to the media in the item, but which are not exactly the same. The primary use of this tag is to list ISBNs, LCCNs, and OCLC numbers for other editions of the same work. These IDs are used for deduplication purposes in the scanning proces.
example: urn:isbn:0671038303
definition: Indicates the current state of a scanned book.
accepted values: Whole number
definition: Deprecated. Email of the person who completed republishing the item
accepted values: email address
usage notes: This field is deprecated.
example: associate-kiana-fekette@archive.org
definition: Date and time in UTC that the item was created archive.org
accepted values: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
usage notes: Set by Scribe3 software.
label: Republisher Operator
definition: Email of the person who completed republishing the item
accepted values: email address
usage notes: Set by Scribe3 software.
example: associate-kiana-fekette@archive.org
definition: Number of seconds required to republish text
usage notes: Set by Scribe3 software.
accepted values: whole number
definition: Reviews for an item are disabled or frozen, default enabled.
accepted values: none, frozen, true
usage notes: If none, an item displays and allows no reviews. If frozen, an item displays existing reviews and allows no edits or additional reviews. If not present or true the default allows display and adding of reviews.
definition: Rights statement
usage notes: Please see licenseurl for URL-based rights designations, like Creative Commons. For other rights information or statements, use the rights field.
example: Permission is granted under the Wikimedia Foundation's , These National Treasury publications may not be reproduced wholly or in part without the express authorisation of the National Treasury in writing unless used for non-profit purposes.
definition: Length of an audio or video item
accepted values: HH:MM:SS H:MM:SS MM:SS M:SS 0:SS
usage notes: Uploader can set this field, but most often we have determined and set this value during the derive process.
example: 00:15:00, 2:12, 0:23
definition: The date and time in UTC that the media was captured.
usage notes: When an physical item is scanned/digitized, scandate represents the date/time that the digitization occurred. For web items, scandate represents the date/time the first WARC file in the item was created. For TV and radio items, scandate represents the begining time of the recording. Formats: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS YYYYMMDD YYYY YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
definition: Scanning fee used during billing process
usage notes: Set by software based on parameters for each scanning partner
example: 100, 300;10;200, 0;1.45;0
definition: Machinery used to digitize or collect the media
example: scribe2.nj.archive.org, selenium-101.us.archive.org, Lasergraphics Scanstation, ArchiveCD Version 2.1.15, Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3
usage notes: Primarily an internally used field. For digitized texts this represents the individual digitization station (e.g. Scribe 2 in the New Jersey center). For web items this represents the crawl machine used to gather the data. For films this represents the film scanner. For CDs this represents the version of the scanning software used for that CD. For end-user contriuted items, this represents the software used to upload the item.
definition: The location where a digital copy of the media item was created
usage notes: Generally used in conjunction with our scanning services, this tag gives the location where an item was digitized, scanned or captured.
show_related_music_by_track
definition: Adds related tracks to details page
label: Related Music by Track
definition: Size of physical item digitized
usage notes: This field is used for physical items that have been digitized. It denotes the size of the physical item. It is widely used to indicate the size of the record in our digitization efforts, e.g. 10 for 78s or 12 for vinyl. If no unit is measurement is specified, assume inches.
definition: Allows default collection sort to be changed from the standard Views order
usage notes: This tag only works on items that are collection mediatype, and can only be set by people with privileges for that collection. Sorting by -downloads is allowed, but would currently be redundant, as that is already the default sort for all collections without this tag.
label: Default Collection Sort
accepted values: addeddate -addeddate creatorSorter -creatorSorter date -date downloads -downloads publicdate -publicdate reviewdate -reviewdate titleSorter -titleSorter
definition: Indicates whether media has sound or is silent
usage notes: Most used values are: sound, silent Mostly used for video items, this field indicates whether the media has related sound or is silent.
definition: Source of media
usage notes: Used to signify where a piece of media originated, or what the physical media was prior to digitization. - Focused crawl items list the site being crawled in this field. - Texts digitization centers use the field to denote folios. - TV uses the field to indicate the signal source. - Internal audio digitization projects use this field to indicate the format of the original media (CD, LP, 78, etc.). - External users often use this field to list a URL where the media content originated. - Etree users use it to record the “path” for recording a live concert.
example: folio, Comcast Cable, CD, DPA 4021 > SX-M2 > SD 744T @ 44.1 kHZ/16 bit
definition: Pixel height of original video stream
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
label: Source Pixel Height
accepted values: Whole number
definition: Pixel width of original video stream
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
label: Source Pixel Width
accepted values: Whole number
definition: The person or organization that funded the digitization or collection of this media.
usage notes: For physical items (books, film, 78rpm, etc.), this represents the entity that funded the digitization/scanning work. For born-digital items (TV, Radio, Web, etc.) this represents the entity that funded the collection of the items.
example: Kahle-Austin Foundation
usage notes: Related to digitization work. Usually a date string “YYYYMMDD”, but can contain notes, such as: “not to be invoiced-past billing period” “Grant ended, item not yet invoiced” “sent20111010”
definition: Billing date for scanned materials
accepted values: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
definition: Start time of program in broadcast time zone
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
example: 2010-03-26 18:00:00
accepted values: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
definition: Start time of program in UTC
example: 2010-03-26 15:00:00
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
definition: Stop time of program in UTC
accepted values: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
example: 2010-03-26 16:00:00
definition: Subjects and/or topics covered by the media content
usage notes: Books and other media objects from libraries often use Library of Congress Subject Headings, http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html. Some collections may use their own controlled vocabulary for setting subjects. Many other items use the subject field as more casual “tags.” All alphabets are supported.
accepted values: String, can contain links, formatting and images in html/css. Currently, with Collections, it can also contain raw Javascript, but we plan to remove this soon.
definition: A summary section that appears on collection pages above the description, entire value appears at the top of the collection tab
label: Collection summary
example: The Universal School Library (USL), is a growing collection of digitized books within the Internet Archive's larger holdings, made available through controlled digital lending, and curated by a national advisory group of school librarians, librarian educators and researchers.
usage notes: This tag only works on items that are collection mediatype, and can only be set by people with privileges for that collection. Normally collection pages only show the first 2 lines of the collection description field on the Collection tab. Content entered into the summary tag for a collection will show at the top of the Collection tab in place of those 2 lines, can include HTML, and be any length (though we recommend keeping it as brief as possible).
accepted values: String, plain text; no HTML or HTML entities (they’ll be displayed in raw form).
example: San Francisco (1955 Cinemascope film)
definition: Title of media
usage notes: All alphabets are supported
definition: Adds text to the item header <title>
label: Title Alternate Script
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items. Maps the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered via digits on a receiver’s remote control.
definition: Virtual Channel the video was recorded from
usage notes: Timestamp is typically when the last task ran on the item, but metadata updates can also be triggered manually.
definition: Timestamp in the metadata table for the last time the item’s row in that table was written
accepted values: YYYY-MM-DD
edit access: not editable
accepted values: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
definition: Date the item was updated by updater
example: 2009-03-02 21:48:28
edit access: not editable
usage notes: Any time an item is changed via the editxml page by the updater (see field), a corresponding field is added to the meta.xml. Updatedate fields are added to meta.xml in the order changes have been made, so the oldest dates are listed first.
usage notes: After initial upload, when changes are made to the content of an item the account that made changes is included in the meta.xml in an field. Updater fields are added to meta.xml in the order changes have been made, so the first listed updater belongs to the oldest modification.
definition: Screen name of the account that updated the item
edit access: not editable
usage notes: The uploader field determines which account has full access to modify/edit/delete metadata and files from the item without having any special privileges granted. Any other account that wants to modify this item must have some level of administrative privilege granted by Internet Archive.
definition: Email address of the account that uploaded the item to archive.org.
accepted values: Email address
example: footage@panix.com
accepted values: Whole number
definition: Offset between local time and UTC
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
usage notes: Primarily used for TV Archive items.
definition: Program used to decode video stream
definition: Causes virus check task to run on any item added to the collection
usage notes: This tag only functions on items of mediatype collection. The tag is either present with a value of “true” or it should not be present in the item metadata at all. Currently all items uploaded into the open community collections have the virus check task run on them, without needing this tag. Any other collection that needs virus checking should have this tag present in order to trigger the virus check task to run on items uploaded into the collection.
definition: Volume number or name
usage notes: This field is not overwritten by MARC
label: Year of Publication
definition: Deprecated, use date field
usage notes: Deprecated, use date field