Describe Panel

Use the Describe Panel to view, add or edit the metadata associated with the items in your anthology. After objects have been Accepted in the Review Quality Panel, they will appear in the Describe panel.

Click on an object’s title to open it and edit its metadata. Creator displays the object on the left-hand side of the page. On the right, Creator displays the object’s metadata information, divided up among four tabs:

• Info
• Description
• Object Info (the title of this tab will change depending on the type of object)
• Contributor Info

If you noticed that the content of any metadata field is incorrect, please correct it. All of the fields required are designated by an asterisk (*). Even if a field is not marked as required, fill in as much information as you can.

Highlights and Free Content

Every anthology has a set of objects that we refer to as “Highlights.” These are the most interesting, popular or visually appealing objects. In Creator, you’ll choose these highlights using the "Highlight this piece of content" checkbox in the Info tab. We recommend selecting books or articles as highlights, and not image, audio or video files. Highlights should receive longer and more in-depth descriptions, eight to ten sentences in length instead of three to five.

Selecting the "Make this item free" allows potential consumers to view the selected object in its entirety. For those making anthologies that will only appear in BiblioBoard Library or that will be entirely free in the consumer product, you must still mark one object as "Free"; however, there is no need to mark more than one piece of content as "Free."

Description

Enter a short description for each object. For example:

The Montgomery, Alabama Junior League’s Southern Recipes offers a nostalgic look back at the age-old tradition of local junior leagues offering cookbooks to their community.

For Highlights, enter a longer and more in-depth description. For example:

Still a cherished tradition among many southern junior leagues, Southern Recipes is the perfect example of an early cookbook compiled by members of a community for the community. However, it’s this book’s hand-written pages and entertaining illustrations that truly take readers back to early 20th-century Montgomery, Alabama. With everything from mint cocktails to cheese balls, creole shrimp to meat loaf, and even sherbet molds to ice box cakes, this book will equip anyone with the tools they need to throw a truly southern soirée.

Object Info

Various fields related to the object are contained here. For books, copy over the publisher name and city from the title page. If more than place of publication is included, please enter the first one listed.

For some types of objects, you’ll see options for choosing up to three Categories for each object. BiblioBoard uses the industry standard BISAC categorization system. For a complete list of BISAC categories, please click here.

Contributor Info

This tab lists the names of all the people or groups who helped create the object. Contributors can be authors, illustrators, editors, etc. For some scanned books added using the Search panel, Creator will list additional names in this tab, such as the name of a book’s printer or the name of its former owner. Delete these entries. The Bio tab can be used to enter a short biography of the person or group who created the object, but this is not a required field.

Notes on names: If the contributor is a person, please make sure you input the name in the Full Name field in Last, First format. (For example, "Franklin, Benjamin.") At the same time, enter the first, middle last name in the respective fields below the Full Name field. For some scanned books added using the Search panel, Creator will list birth and death dates after an author’s name. Delete this information.

Unknown or anonymous authors: In these cases, enter “Unknown” or “Anonymous” in both the Full Name field and the Last Name field.

Authors without a last name: Many ancient writers went by a single name, such as “Socrates” or “Plato.” In these cases, enter the author’s name in both the Full Name field and the Last Name field. Do not enter the author’s name in the First Name field.