By Madison Chartier The OSU Library Metadata Guide: Best Practices for Digital Collections is a document based on national standards and best practices for creating and enhancing metadata that provides consistency and accuracy within and between digital collections to increase […]
One Weird Query: Resolving LC Subject Strings to URIs Using Python By Ruth Kitchin Tillman Several times a year, the same question comes up on Twitter or in one the metadata/library/archives Slacks: “Does anyone know working reconciliation service for LCSH?” […]
Wax By Marii Nyröp Wax is a minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility. Our underlying technology is made to learn and to teach, and can produce beautifully rendered, high-quality image collections and […]
Collection Builder By Olivia Wikle, Evan Williamson, Devin Becker, Jylisa Doney, Chelsea Codling, and Michael Decker CollectionBuilder is an open source tool for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that are driven by metadata and powered by modern static web […]
Bash Scripting: automating repetitive command line tasks By Sibyl Schaefer One of my current tasks is to develop workflows for digital preservation procedures. These workflows begin with the acquisition of files – either disk images or logical file transfers – […]
BASH How-To: Extract EXIF Metadata and Output to a Text File By Sandy Lynn Ortiz Recently, I taught myself BASH scripting to automate a process for Stanford University Libraries Born Digital Labs. As a lab assistant, with an technology enthusiast […]
Digital Processing Workflows & Improvisation: A Foray into Bash Scripting By Kelly Bolding Over the past year, processing archivists in the Manuscripts Division have begun to integrate digital processing into our regular work. So far, each group of digital materials […]
RLLC – Recommended Specifications for Digitization Projects by the Rochester Regional Library Council Below are general specifications for resolution and file formats for text-based and graphical/image-based materials contributed to NY Heritage and NYS Historic Newspapers. Specifications may vary due to […]
By Brigham Young University Below is the student employee manual for CONTENTdm, covering: Flatbed Scanning (Epson and Silverlight) Creating a metadata loading spreadsheet Loading in Project Client Online QA and exporting Metadata from CONTENTdm Correcting mistakes after upload to […]
By Brigham Young University and Phil Harvey The following are instructions to run the command line tool Exiftool in Terminal (I think it can be adapted for Windows fairly easily, but I have not done so here). Exiftool generates […]