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Your Name
Enter in the form "lastname, firstname".

METADATA

Title
If your image already has an established title (e.g., an image of a work of art) use that title. Otherwise, give your image a brief title that is descriptive of what is in the image. Exclude initial articles ("a," "an," and "the"), and don't use ending punctuation (such as a period). Capitalize only the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns (like a normal English sentence).

Description
Describe what is in the image. At least provide basic information about what is pictured, but feel free to create a lengthy description,containing keywords that will help users of IDEAS find your image when searching.

 

Country
For most images, this will be the country pictured in the image. For images of things, however, use the country associated with the content of the image (e.g., a Japanese-made kimono that is in the collection of a US college should have the country "Japan.").

Historical Period
The time period that the content of the image is from. (e.g., 19th Century, Modern, Ming Dynasty).

Date of Content
The date associated with what is pictured in the image, e.g., the date an art object was created, a postcard printed, etc. Use the format YYYY-MM-DD, and enter as much as is known (e.g., 2002, 2002-01, and 2002-01-27 are all valid dates). To show that a date is approximate, follow it with a question mark, as 1890?

 
Artist/Creator
The name of the person who created the image. Enter names in the form "lastname, firstname".
 
Photographer/Recorder
The name of the person who took the photograph. Enter names in the form "lastname, firstname".
 
Subject
Choose as many terms from the IDEAS topic list as are necessary to describe the image. Most images will need several topics to fully describe the content of the image. Click the link or ? to view the IDEAS topic list.
Associated Places
Enter names of states, prefectures, cities, neighborhoods, etc. as found in the TGN (Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names) that describe the intellectual content of the resource.
 
Date Photographed/Recorded
The date the photographer tripped the shutter, the date an audio engineer recorded a performance, etc. Use the format YYYY-MM-DD, and enter as much as is known (e.g., 2002, 2002-01, and 2002-01-27 are all valid dates). To show that a date is approximate, follow it with a question mark, as 1890?
 
Date Digital
The date the resource became digital. Use the format YYYY-MM-DD, and enter as much as is known (e.g., 2002, 2002-01, and 2002-01-27 are all valid dates). To show that a date is approximate, follow it with a question mark, as 1890?
 

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