Alaska Region Metadata Guide
  • Alaska Region Interim Metadata Guide
    • Other Training Resources
  • Goals of Data Management
  • Project & Data Management Integration
  • Alaska Region Tools
    • Alaska Regional Data Repository
    • Metadata Standard Checklist
    • Contact Master List
    • mdEditor basics
      • Record Types
      • mdJSON vs. mdEditor files
      • Settings
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      • Import Records
      • Copy Records
      • Export Records
      • I Need HELP! and Bug Reporting
    • Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
    • Data.gov
  • Creating Metadata
    • A Workflow At A Glance
  • Contact Entry Guidance
    • Organization Contacts
    • Individual Contacts
  • Project Metadata Guidance
    • Project Main Tab
      • Guide to Good Titles
    • Project Metadata Tab
    • Project Keywords Tab
    • Project Extent Tab
    • Project Taxonomy Tab
    • Project Distribution Tab
    • Project Funding Tab
    • Project Associated Tab
  • Product Metadata Guidance
    • Product Main Tab
      • Resource Types Defined
    • Product Metadata Tab
    • Product Keywords Tab
    • Product Extent Tab
    • Product Lineage Tab
    • Product Taxonomy Tab
    • Product Distribution Tab
    • Product Constraints Tab
    • Product Associated Tab
  • Product Dictionary Entry Guidance
    • Dictionary Main Tab
    • Dictionary Entities Tab
    • Dictionary Domain Tab
  • Glossary
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The Copy button is located in the mdEditor action menu on the right-hand side of the screen when viewing the summary screen of the record. The Copy Button allows you to make a duplicate of an existing metadata record.

Making a copy of a record can be used to:

  • Start a new product, project, or contact record.

  • Populate multiple products faster (e.g., multiple workshop reports, a poster based on a publication).

  • Create a "template record" for a project that can be used as a starting place for each full metadata record. A template record can contain information commonly used across your projects or products (such as contacts).

Use the Copy button carefully:

It is extremely important to review all copied identifiers and delete any that do not apply to the new record. Leaving in identifiers that do not belong could result in your new item being published to the wrong location.

Before saving, carefully review all information in a copied record to ensure all copied info is still relevant to the copied record, particularly any identifiers.

Making a copy will generate a new Record ID for the copied record and be named “Copy of …”. All the other info will remain the same including associations. The “Metadata Identifier” is NOT copied but any other identifiers in the section of the metadata record you copied WILL be copied.

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