Uploader Guide
This admin guide is intended as a reference tool for those users who are responsible for uploading content to the archive. Users with access to these pages will have already received training (or who are in the process of receiving it), so this will act as a means of refreshing existing knowledge rather than teaching new concepts.
Understanding metadata
Metadata is simply “data [information] that provides information on other data”, and without it, a database (or in this case, an archive)
Other than providing a space to save the content we create, the most beneficial aspect of this archive is that it is fully searchable.
For example: imagine you are speaking to a donor and they are interested in how media can be used to promote awareness of potential health problems during pregnancy…
The traditional method would be to ask everyone you can to see if they know of any examples – and then once they (hopefully) recall an example you would then have to request that footage from the original source, which may take days to arrive – if indeed it still exists.
With a fully searchable
Simple – if all the metadata has been captured correctly.
For those who upload the