This manual is designed to serve as an aid to funeral directors and coroners responsible for registering certificates of death and to local offices of vital statistics in registration of certificates of death. The handbook contains background information on the importance of vital records for legal and statistical purposes, and information about the roles and responsibilities of the parties involved in the preparation and registration of vital records.
Colorado State University Libraries has been involved in multiple digitization projects since 2000. with the growth of the number of projects (and project managers) and the development of an Institutional Repository, the Libraries decided to develop a data dictionary, including input guidelines of core metadata elements that would guide project managers at CSU Libraries in metadata planning for their specific projects.
