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The definitions and comments below are an extract from the full Audubon Core (http://species-id.net/wiki/Audubon_Core ).

The terms correspond to the schema following the photo albums and photos.
Explanations in italic are for terms not defined in the Audubon Core.

Some terms might be removed during the further development of the Multimedia Server.

Name Definition Comments
 Title  Concise title, name, or brief descriptive label of institution, resource collection, or individual resource. This field should include the complete title with all the subtitles, if any.  The title facilitates interactions with humans: e.g. the title could be used as display text of hyperlinks or to provide a choice of images in a pick list. The title is therefore highly useful and an effort should be made to provide it, where not already available. When the resource is a collection without an institutional or official name, but with a thematic content, a descriptive title, e. g. “Urban Ants of New England” would be suitable. In individual media resources depicting taxa, the scientific name or names of taxa often form a good title. Common names in addition to or instead of scientific names are also acceptable. Indications of action or roles captured by the media resource, such as predatory acts, are desirable (“Rattlesnake eating deer mouse”, “Pollinators of California Native Plants”).
 Description  Description of collection or individual resource, containing the Who, What, When, Where and Why as free-form text. This normative document is silent on the nature of formatting in the text. It is the role of implementers of a MRTG concrete representation (e.g. an XML Schema, an RDF representation, etc.) to decide and document how formatting advice will be represented in Descriptions serialized according to such representations.  It optionally allows to present detailed information and will in most cases be shown together with the resource title. If both description and caption (see below) are present, a description is typically displayed instead of the resource, a caption together with the resource. Should be a good proxy for the underlying media resource.
 Geographical coverage  Audubon term: World Region.
Name of a world region in some high level classification, such as names for continents, waterbodies, or island groups, whichever is most appropriate. The terms preferably are derived from a controlled vocabulary (to be defined).
  The equivalent DarwinCore fields here forces primary metadata providers to classify world region terms into separate properties for “continent” “waterbody”, “IslandGroup”. By contrast, the Iptc4xmpExt vocabulary only specifies that a World Region is something at the top of a hierarchy of locations.
 Keywords  Self-explanatory  
 Sort order  Self-explanatory  
 Release date  The date for upload of photo to the Multimedia Server.
  
 Author  This term can have several meanings: metadata author or scientific name author. In Multimedia Server context it means the metadata author.
  We might remove this term from the schema.
 Source  Audubon term: Published source.
An identifiable source from which the described resources was derived. It may be digital, but in any case should be a source for which the originator intended long-term availability.		  We might remove this term from the schema. If image, key, etc. was taken from (i.e. digitized) or was also published in a digital or printed publication. Do not put generally "related" publications in here. This field normally contains a free-form text description; it may be a URI: (“digitally-published://ISBN=961-90008-7-0”) if this resource is also described separately in the data exchange. Can be repeatable if a montage of images.
 Geographic location  The location where the photo was taken.
  
 Type of photo  Choose from drop-down list.
  
 Copyright owner  The name of the owner of the copyright. 'Unknown' is an acceptable value.  ALA uses dcterms:publisher [1] for this purpose, but it seems doubtful that the publisher is by necessity the copyright owner. Copyright owner cannot be repeated (only a single owner is possible).
 Copyright statement  Information about rights held in and over the resource. A full-text, readable copyright statement, as required by the national legislation of the copyright holder. On collections, this applies to all contained objects, unless the object itself has a different statement. Examples: “Copyright XY 2008, all rights reserved”, “© 2008 XY Museum” , "Public Domain." Do not place just the name of the copyright holder here!  This expresses rights over the media resource, not over the metadata text.
 License statement  The license statement defining how resources may be used. Information on a collection applies to all contained objects unless the object has a different statement.  Example: "Available under Creative Commons by-nc-sa 2.5 license". This also informs on the commercial availability of items. Buying an identification tool or media resource is essentially the purchase of an individual license. Examples for such License statements: “Available through bookstores” for a commercially published CD, in License; “Individual licenses available for purchase” for a high-resolution image (note that the medium or low resolution levels of the same image may be available under Creative Commons!)
 Published source  An identifiable source from which the described resources was derived. It may be digital, but in any case should be a source for which the originator intended long-term availability.  If image, key, etc. was taken from (i.e. digitized) or was also published in a digital or printed publication. Do not put generally "related" publications in here. This field normally contains a free-form text description; it may be a URI: (“digitally-published://ISBN=961-90008-7-0”) if this resource is also described separately in the data exchange. Can be repeatable if a montage of images.
 Creator  The person or organization responsible for creating the media resource  The value may be simple text including contact information. Note that the Creator need not be the Copyright Owner
 Provider  Person or organization responsible for presenting the media resource. If no separate Metadata Provider is attributed, this attributes also the metadata.  Media items and Metadata may be served from different institutions, e. g. in the case of aggregators adding user annotations, taxon identifications, or ratings.
 Country name  This field can be free text, but where possible, the use of Iptc4xmpExt:CountryCode [7] is preferred.  
 City or place name  Optionally, the name of a city or place commonly found in gazetteers (such as a mountain or national park) in which the subjects (e. g., species, habitats, or events) were located.  
 Original date and time  The date of the creation for the original resource from which the digital media was derived or created. The date and time must comply with the W3 datetime practice, which requires that date and time representation correspond to ISO 8601:1998, but with year fields always comprising 4 digits. This makes datetime records compliant with 8601:2004. MRTG datetime values may also follow 8601:2004 for ranges by separating two IS0 8601 datetime fields by a solidus ("forward slash", '/'). See also the wikipedia IS0 8601 entry for further explanation and examples.  What is what constitutes "original" is determined by the metadata author. Example: Digitization of a photographic slide of a map would normally give the date at which the map was created; however a photographic work of art including the same map as its content may give the date of the original photographic exposure. Imprecise or unknown dates can be represented as ISO dates or ranges. Compare also Date and Time Digitized.
 Scientific name  Scientific taxon names of organisms represented in the media resource (with date and authorship information if available) of the lowest level taxonomic rank that can be applied.  The Scientific Name may possibly be a Genus or Family name, if this is the most specific identification available. Where multiple taxa are the subject, multiple names may be given. If possible, add this information here even if the title or caption of the resource already contains scientific names. Where the list of scientific names is impractically large (e. g., media collections or identification tools), the number of taxa should be given in Taxon Count (see below). If possible, please do not repeat the Taxonomic Coverage here. Do not use abbreviated Genus names ("P. vulgaris"). It is recommended to provide author citation to scientific names, to avoid ambiguities in the presence of homonyms (the same name created by different authors for different taxa). Identifier qualifications should be supplied in the Identification Qualifier term rather than here (i. e. “Abies cf. alba” is deprecated, to be replaced with Scientific Name = “Abies cf. alba” and Identification Qualifier = “cf.”).
 Common name  Common (= vernacular) names of the subject in one or several languages. The ISO language name should be given in parentheses after the name if not all names are in Metadata Language.  Applicable only if the resource relates to a single taxon. The ISO language codes after the name should be formatted as in the following example: 'abete bianco (it); Tanne (de); White Fir (en)'. If names are known to be male- or female-specific, this may be specified as in: 'ewe (en-female); ram (en-male);'.
 Tags  General keywords or tags.  Tags may be multi-worded phrases. Where scientific names, common names, geographic locations, etc. are separable, these should go into the more specific metadata items provided further below. Examples: "flower diagram". Character or part keywords like "leaf", "flower color" are especially desirable.

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