Element: Description

• Interpretation: A textual, narrative description of the resource, including abstracts for documents or content characterizations in the case of visual resources

• Guideline
  • Use this element whenever possible, as it is a rich source of indexable vocabulary. Emphasize the contextual information and popular associations (people, places, and events) of the resource
  • If a single “description” field does not exist in your current database, values from other fields or wall label copy, exhibition catalogs, didactic copy, etc. may be concatenated to populate DESCRIPTION
  • DESCRIPTION is likely a display field with the resource in the search result set, we recommend brevity but not so as to sacrifice richness.

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