Student Support for Digital Initiatives: Integrating Student Assistants into Staff Workflows

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Student Support for Digital Initiatives: Integrating Student Assistants into Staff Workflows Several departments at UNLV have worked to adapt staff managed workflows to incorporate students. Utilizing various methods to fit their diverse needs, each department (Digital Collections and Scholarly Communications Initiatives) has increased student roles, freeing staff to work on higher level projects and update,…

Metadata 2020: Metadata Best Practices

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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,…

Using OpenRefine and the WorldCat Metadata API to get current OCLC numbers

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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…

Metadata Application Profile Clearinghouse

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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…

OSSArcFlow – Investigating, Synchronizing, and Modeling a Range of Archival Workflows for Born-Digital Content

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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…