by Yale University Library Workflow outlining standards for exact copies and acceptable variations in copy cataloging. Available at : https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/workflow/added-copy-or-new-record-books Archived with Internet Archive (2018-12-07): https://web.archive.org/web/20181207160652/https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/workflow/added-copy-or-new-record-books
Image collection migration : Internet Archive to Omeka By Patrick Wallace Here’s a little experiment, wherein I use the good ol’ internetarchive Python library to create a CSV suitable for Omeka’s CSV Import plugin, with the goal of migrating an image collection. Omeka’s CSV importer allows files stored online to be automatically imported by URL,…
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’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…