By Allison Jai O’Dell and Steven Duckworth From Code4Lib 2016 Do your finding aids look a bit … dated? Perhaps you wrote that EAD-to-HTML XSLT a decade ago? Take advantage of contemporary development and design tools — engage users and […]
By Conal Tuohy “Visualizing Government Archives through Linked Data” blog post (includes links to source code) about an automated gateway which harvests from an OAI-PMH repository, transforms the harvested records into RDF/XML using an XSLT, and deposits the resulting RDF […]
Coordinators: Shawn Averkamp, Sara Rubinow, Matt Miller, Josh Hadro Tools and standards abound for creating and enriching metadata, but measuring, monitoring, and managing metadata for the long haul can be a daunting task. What tools are out there to assess […]
Catmandu provides a suite of Perl modules to ease the import, storage, retrieval, export and transformation of metadata records. Combine Catmandu modules with web application frameworks such as PSGI/Plack, document stores such as MongoDB and full text indexes as Solr […]
Tools for creating reports on CONTENTdm repository metadata by Andy Weidner https://github.com/metaweidner/cdmeta_reports Harvest names and subjects from the CONTENTdm API: harvest_names.rb harvest_subjects.rb Filter the harvest files for vocab specific lists of unique values: filter_names.rb filter_subjects.rb
By Ruth Tillman The HathiTrust submissions process requires a .yml file whose contents contain information about the scan and a detailed contents list. The contents list can include information about reading order, chapters, and page type. This Python (2.7.x) script […]
Norwick Center for Digital Services SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | DALLAS, TEXAS | JANUARY 2016 In 2008, the Norwick Center for Digital Services created the first version of what was then called the SMU CONTENTdm Guide: Framework for Building a Collection. […]
CARLI Digital Collections Users’ Group, Standards Subcommittee This document sets forth guidelines for digitizing moving image materials for CARLI Digital Collections. It provides a set of recommendations for technical specifications that digital objects should adhere to, as well as a […]
Created by Brianna Marshall I’ve listed the basic workflow I followed to display a georectified map and group of historical events within a Neatline exhibit. I’ve noted problems I ran into and added additional information if the tutorial did not […]
Tips, tutorials, and recommendations for using Omeka to publish online multimedia exhibits, digital heritage and research projects. http://libguides.library.cofc.edu/c.php?g=230905&p=1532681