Born Digital

  is used in metadata to help make like things appear together in searches.  In practice, thesauri of defined terms are developed by specialists (art historians, anthropologists, librarians, engineers, etc.) of terms to be used so that searches work better and provide the most relevant results.

The long-term storage, preservation, and access to information. 

  the intersection of computing and scholarly endeavors (teaching, studying, etc…) in the humanities. A means to promote new ways of analyzing texts. See this guide:

digital collection, preservation, and sometimes access of a collection.  Examples include:  ScholarWorks, Selected Works, Academia.edu, Google Scholar, digital collections of various institutions (museums, libraries, etc.) and any other collection of digital materials which are stable and enduring.

  the process of photographing or scanning physical objects (either two or three dimensional) into digital formats, most often TIFF or JPG2000.

Geographic information system, a system (usually a type of software) for storing and manipulating geographical information on computer.

collecting, preserving and giving access to administrative and sometimes intellectual works from a particular institution.

(HTML or XML) HTML is the older and (now) less accepted of these.  Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.  Language used to code language which is used in building web pages.

A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.  A variety of standard schema have been designed for different uses, but most are based upon Dublin Core, an element set of 15 “core” fields, with additional specific fields which pertain to certain user needs or the type of material being described.