APIS Contributors are asked to provide metadata to Columbia in either the APIS Contribution Format ("Digital Library Data Dictionary") or in MARC21 format.  

APIS Contribution Format ("Digital Library Data Dictionary")

• Descriptive Metadata
  
• Structural Metadata
  
• Record Format
  
• Examples
  

MARC 21 format

• Harvard contribution format planning
  
  
• Encoding APIS Elements in MARC

U. Mich. Filemaker Pro Input Application

• Technical Specifications & downloads
  
  

Content Guidelines

• APIS ID Numbers
  
• APIS Personal Name Conventions
  
• APIS Conventions for Normalized Dates
  
• APIS Conventions for citation-links to the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP)
  
• MARC21 Language Codes as modified for APIS
  
• APIS Terminology for Physical Formats
  
• APIS "Linkback" Citations
  
• Diacritics and Special Characters
  
• Institution / Repository Codes (added 5/9/03)
  

Cataloging Guidelines

• Duke guidelines 1 ("Cataloging the Duke Papyrus"), rev. 6/2004
  
• Duke guidelines 2 ("Introducing the Online Catalogue of the Duke Papyrus Collection", 5/1995
• Yale guidelines ("The Yale Papyrus Collection, Catalog Introduction"), rev. 10/8/2001
• Berkeley MARC guide ("APIS MARC Records Keying & Content Guidelines", rev. 3/14/2005

Ad Hoc Conversions

• AES / British Museum