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 […]
By Brigham Young University An example of a digitization quality assurance pass/fail checklist, for student employees’ use. Available through the Library Workflow Exchange: Quality Assurance (QA) PASS_FAIL Checklist – Sheet1
About Oregon Digital The System A unique collaboration between the University of Oregon Libraries and Oregon State University Libraries & Press, Oregon Digital is a Samvera Project. All code has been made publicly available on Github: Oregon Digital application Metadata ingest forms […]
by Tasha Mellins-Cohen, COUNTER Executive Committee This guide is a non-intimidating manual for librarians, a friendly introduction to the COUNTER Code of Practice, Release 5, for librarians and other users. It is a counterpart to The Friendly Guide to Release […]
by Project COUNTER This tutorial explains the new Database Reports and how to use them. Available at https://youtu.be/dtn8LeJRmqU