This tool consumes the clusters exported by OpenRefine and aims to provide an easy interface for stakeholders to participate in the process of deciding what the “canonical” representation of a data value should be. See the demo at: http://amiaopensource.github.io/TIDY A […]
We do quite a bit of uploading of our British Library digitised collections to Wikimedia Commons and using their GLAMwiki Toolset allows us to fashion our metadata up front so it is consistent, and upload files in bulk by collection. […]
XML is a widely used format for information serialization, transfer, and processing. Unfortunately, because of its document-centric nature, XML is unnecessarily inconvenient to work with in contexts where content consists of multiple independent records, and where streaming and/or fault-tolerant processing […]
In order to take advantage of our routine batch loading process, the finding aid metadata workflow transforms the EAD metadata from the finding aid and outputs it into a .csv file for use with the simple archive format packager SAFBuilder. […]
As part of my internship at Indiana University’s Mathers Museum of World Cultures (http://mathers.indiana.edu/), I created a document outlining the steps for creating an Omeka exhibit of the Museum’s collections. You can see a PDF of the document below. Please […]
Knowledge Bank featured collection this month is the Jesse Owens Photographs collection. The collection currently contains 141 images – a sampling of the more than two thousand photographs from the life of Jesse Owens held at The Ohio State University […]
As we are working on developing our digital archives capacities we have been testing, evaluating, and trying out processes for managing digital archival material. Towards this end we have documented and created templates for acquisition, submission and archival processing tasks. […]
The Preservation Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) is a free online tool that helps collection managers prioritize efforts to improve conditions of collections. Through guided evaluation of materials, storage/exhibit environments, and institutional policies, the PSAP produces reports on the factors that impact […]
https://github.com/Conal-Tuohy/huni/tree/master/data-store/www/skos-tools/vocabulary.xml I’ll explain briefly how it works, but first, I think it’s necessary to explain the rationale for the vocabulary tool, and for that you need to see how it fits into the LODLAM environment. http://conaltuohy.com/blog/taking-control-of-an-uncontrolled-vocabulary/
Digital Archives Accessioning Manual, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies University of Georgia Note: contact the digital archivist, Adriane Hanson (ahanson@uga.edu) with questions or to get copiesof templates that are not included in the manual. You are […]