Examine some records in your chosen archive to identify some of the descriptive metadata elements that it displays (e.g., title, language, location, date, etc.). See if you can determine what metadata schema(s) it uses; this information might be on an “about” or “help” page or in the archive’s documentation.
Examine some records in your chosen archive to identify rights metadata. If you do not find anything that looks like a rights statement in the data record, see if you can find information about copyright, intellectual property, or licensing elsewhere on the archive’s website.
Look at the controlled vocabularies for your chosen archive (e.g., participant roles, genres, languages) and make a plan to use them as part of your descriptive metadata. If the repository does not have any controlled vocabularies, then create your own and use them consistently.
Make a plan for how you will collect metadata during your data collection, including descriptive and technical metadata, as well as information about rights to the data and any information about how the data can/should be shared or used.
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