Metadata 2020’s Best Practices and Principles Project Group has collected links to existing metadata guidelines and best practices in order to shed light on what currently exists and whether they are applicable to the scholarly communications lifecycle. This list focuses on creating, maintaining, and distributing different types of structured information to improve discovery of articles,…
Hijuelas digitization workflow: Developing a low-cost, fast book digitization workflow for use in Michoacán, Mexico. by David Bliss https://davidallynbliss.com/projects/hijuelas-digitization-workflow/
Born-Digital University Archives Workflows by Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections https://rbsc.princeton.edu/workflows/born-digital/university-archives
Born-Digital Ingest Workflow Overview Special collections workflow for born-digital items By the Carolina Digital Repository https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/cdr/index.php/about/resources-for-unc-library-and-archives-staff/born-digital-ingest-workflow/
Using OpenRefine and the WorldCat Metadata API to get current OCLC numbers By Karen Coombs One issue that a lot of catalogers and metadata librarians struggle with is getting the current OCLC number for a given record into their local system. This is because records and OCLC numbers are merged over time. When a library…
From the DLF AIG Metadata Working Group: The Clearinghouse is intended to be an extensible collection/repository of metadata application profiles, mappings, and related specifications that aid or guide descriptive metadata conventions in digital repository collections. The Clearinghouse intends to make these example documents freely-available as downloadable files, as web pages are subject to change and…
The Educopia Institute, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS), LYRASIS, and Artefactual, Inc., are investigating, synchronizing, and modeling a range of workflows to increase the capacity of libraries and archives to curate born digital content. These archival workflows will incorporate three leading…
Backlog Lookup By Yukari Sugiyama Using OpenRefine and OCLC’s WorldCat Search APIs, the process automates the work of backlog searching. It automatically searches WorldCat for cataloging copy by LCCN, ISBN, and NETWORK_NUMBER (OCLC number) https://github.com/ysugiyama3/backlog_lookup
ALMA to HathiTrust Metadata Instructions By Jen Young Workflow for preparing records for HathiTrust from Alma https://gist.github.com/jenyoung/a70a2b857b3f6fead2505cbd64308531
Cougar ROAR Self-Submission and Mediated Ingest Workflows: Working Documentation from the University of Houston Libraries https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DmmV5cODQA9C0L8uQ8RYjWVvoVTX4Y9tb8XwLbSTD_k/edit#