This guide demonstrates effective metadata research strategies for historical works in a digital library, highlighting its broader applications.
This guide shares strategies for researching metadata fields for the Sounding Spirit Digital Library (https://library.soundingspirit.org) that require subject matter expertise, music literacy, or research in primary sources. The document includes guidance on researching people and places, suggestions for how to engage with a book digitized for the project, and advice on how to fill out relevant metadata fields. The metadata research guide may be useful to others conducting research into people and places associated with historical works, considering the scope of a metadata collection effort, or planning collaborative thematic collection publication projects.
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