HCIL Data Dictionary:
Maintained by Todd Carlough
February 07, 2000
toddc@wam.umd.edu
Number: db1: 1-100 Scanned and entered by Hyunmo Kang, 9/99
db2: 101-208 Scanned and entered by Todd Carlough 10/99
db3: 208-279 Scanned and entered by Todd Carlough 10/99
We will number in ascending order and write the number on the back of the photo
Collection: Photos that all pertain to a similar subject, place, or time.
CollectionID: Number representing Collection Identity
Name: Small number of words and numbers describing group.
Description: Full description of group. Includes full name of activity,
approximate date of event(s) and location of event(s).
Keyword: Short keywords that discribe persons, locations or objects contained
within the photo.
StartingDay: Number representing either the exact starting day of the
collection(if known) or the closest approximation of the starting day.
Entered in DD format.
StartingMonth: Number representing either the exact starting month of the
collection(if known) or the closest approximation of the starting month.
Entered in MM format.
StartingYear: Number representing either the exact starting year of the
collection(if known) or the closest approximation of the starting year.
Entered in YYYY format.
EndingDay: Number representing either the exact ending day of the
collection(if known) or the closest approximation of the ending day.
Entered in DD format.
EndingMonth: Number representing either the exact ending month of the
collection(if known) or the closest approximation of the ending month.
Entered in MM format.
EndingYear: Number representing either the exact ending year of the
collection(if known) or the closest approximation of the ending year.
Entered in YYYY format.
City: City location of collection. Entered in string format, e.g. College Park
State: State (or Province) location of collection. Entered in SS format, e.g. MD
Country: Country location of collection. Entered in abbreviated
form when known, or in string format if not known, e.g. France, or USA
RepresentativePhotoID: Number of the photo that best represents the
Collection. Not necessarily the first picture. Default is first in linkage list.
Photo: List of all the photos in the database.
PhotoID: ID number of the photo, ascending from 1.
Date: If exact date is known enter in 3 fields: Year in YYYY, Month in
MM and Day in DD
If only partial info is known, fill in what you know –
this is how we are dealing with uncertainty for now
If no date is known leave blank- date will be inherited from Collection
Location: Entered in three columns, Location City, Location State and Location
Country.
Enter information in the correct field.
State can be either State or Province.
Unknown values are entered as ??. Invalid values such as
State of London, England are left blank.
Keyword: Keywords relating to objects or people in picture.
e.g. University of Maryland, Birthday Cake
Rating: Rating from 0 to 9 based on:
1) Clarity of Picture
2) Amusement Value
3) Importance of Picture
Picture: Copy of picture contained within the Microsoft Access database.
Permissible values are: Package
Color: Permissible values are: Color, B/W
Locale: Permissible values are: Outdoor, Indoor
Contents: Permissible values are: Group snapshot, Group still, Portrait still,
Single Snapshot, Landscape
URL: Link reference to picture
Thumbnail: Link reference to thumbnail of the picture.
KnownPeopleCount: Numeric value of known people in photo. Person must be
identifiable. Name does not necessarily have to be known.
Value ranges from 0 to total number faces known in picture.
Linkage: Table linking a photo with a collection. Multiple listings in
different collections for a photo may occur.
E.g. collection ID# 1, Photo ID# 3 and Collection ID# 5, Photo ID#3.
CollectionID: Foreign key to associate with Collection.
PhotoID: Foreign key to associate with Photo.
LinkageID: Number to represent the order in the collection that the
given picture occupies.
XY: Upper left corner of box that holds thumbnail in collection viewer
Size: Size of thumbnail width in pixels
Appearance: List of all the appearances of every individual in every photo.
AppearanceID: Number labeling each appearance of every person.
PhotoID: ID of the photo the person appears in.
PersonID: Number labeling each person.
XY: Upper left corner of box that has name of person,
absolute XY pixel address on full size image
Person: List of all people’s names in database.
PersonID: Number labeling each person.
FamilyName: Person’s last name, e.g. Carlough
GivenNames: Person’s first name and middle names, e.g. James Todd
Version: Table containing the version number of the database.
VersionNumber: Number identifying the version of the database, e.g. 1.1
The Entity-Relationship Diagram we are implementing with this schema is shown below:
Collection
Photo
Person
CollectionID
CollectionName
Description
StartingYear
StartingMonth
StartingDay
EndingYear
EndingMonth
EndingDay
Location
Keyword
RepresentativePhotoID
PhotoID
StartingYear
StartingMonth
StartingDay
EndingYear
EndingMonth
EndingDay
Location
Rating
Event
Picture
Keyword
Color
Locale
Contents
PeopleCount
URL
PersonID
FamilyName
GivenName
Version
VersionNumber
Linkage
Appearance
LinkageID
CollectionID
PhotoID
AppearanceID
PhotoID
PersonID
XYCoordinates