The title creation process is not necessarily a linear one. In general some things should be done before others, but often times, the order of title creation can change. That being said, let us delve into the creation of titles.

• Please see the CREATING COLLECTIVE TITLES GUIDE

• Please see the CREATING WORK TITLES GUIDE

• Please see the CLIPS GUIDE

If you have not done it already, it is time to flesh out your title records. This process takes the form of a series of concentric circles, with the Cataloger making multiple cataloging passes through a grouping of titles, adding layer upon layer of metadata. Alternately, or additionally, a bulk import of title info can be performed (see below). I suppose this process really depends on what metadata already exists for these titles. At the very least, there should be information in the component records (notes on what was written on the tape and container should be in the Notes field of the Notes tab; shot log information should be in the Shot Log tab). So, whatever metadata resources you are referring to should be open during the cataloging process. That can include the video itself. Anyway.

Open Your Titles

• Log into MAVIS
• Open Titles module
• Find titles
• Open title
• Open item

Add Your Metadata

• PRODUCTION TAB
  • Language(s): enter languages
  • Date(s): enter date type and date
  • Color: Color, Black and White, or Both [color, sound, and duration should already be filled]
  • Sound: yes or no
  • Duration: enter total duration of title
  • save record
• SUMMARY
  • Enter, or, flesh out Summary in the general tab
  • save record
• CREDITS TAB
  • Please see the (non-existent) GIVING CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE: a guide to adding credit roles GUIDE
• SUBJECTS TAB
  • Please see the (non-existent) SUBJECTING OUR TITLES TO SUBJECT HEADINGS: cataloging subjects GUIDE

So you have created titles, given them clips, maybe added some cataloging information. Pretty good. But how about bulking up those catalog records some more? Maybe you have a group of titles that share a good deal of metadata. Maybe you want for do a bulk import. Let me walk you through that process.

• Please see the (non-existent) IMPORTING TITLE INFO GUIDE

So, is there any more to do in terms of title creation? Well, you can always refine, maybe writing a better summary, adding more subjects, a few more credits. And reference materials. You can add reference materials. Links to websites, pictures, pdfs, and the like. And so on. We will add more to this guide if we thing of anything else. Until then.

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