Athletic Archive Metadata Standards for Searchable School History
Athletic archive metadata standards are the agreed-upon field names, value formats, and controlled vocabularies that allow a school’s historical records — athlete names, seasons, sports, awards, and statistics — to be searched, sorted, filtered, and displayed consistently regardless of who entered the data or which system holds it. Without standards, a database of ten thousand records becomes an unsearchable list: “Basketball” in one entry, “Boys Basketball” in another, “BB-Varsity” in a third, and “M. Johnson” in the athlete field where one staff member typed “Marcus Johnson” and another typed “Johnson, M.”
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