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Element set: SUBJECT
12. SUBJECT
Type
Occurrence:
Choice:
Optional
Repeatable
Discrete
Qualifiers
Keywords:
Mandatory, Not Repeatable, Free Choice
Definition
The topic of the content of the resource.
Comment
The Subject must be selected from an enumerated list corresponding to the Slots defined by the
research group during second meeting in Macerata. Below is the complete list:
• Arti/Facts
• Class
• Cultural Practices
• Definitions of Culture
• Displacement
• Exchanges
• Gender/Sexuality
• Identity
• Internationalism/Transnationalism
• Nationalism/Regionalism
• Peace
• Places
• Race/Ethnicity
• War
• Wo/Men
Once selected a slot, one or more related keywords must be expressed: the research group found
agree to adopt the European Women's Thesaurus 1998, edited by the International Information
Center and Archives for the Women Movement, Amsterdam (1998), a controlled vocabulary for
selecting keywords. In addition, other kind of controlled vocabularies or classification schemes
may be used to increase precision and recall, once these are formally accepted by the community
of researchers. It is also possible to freely express keywords but this practice should be adopted
carefully since there is a great danger of semantic overlapping and non-coherent structures
defining. The use of repeating elements is preferred.
Use as many keywords you feel necessary for resource discovery. Choose the most significant
and unique words for keywords, avoiding those too general to describe a particular item.
Examples
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