Maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions that address the many challenges at various stages of the digital object lifecycle. Digital curation activities enhance access and retrieval, maintain quality, add value, and facilitate use and […]
Many in the VIVO community use Python for data manipulation and transformation tasks (ETL). petl is a framework for reading data from various sources, transforming it, and passing it along to another source. https://gist.github.com/lawlesst/52c622e172c5ab452d3c
Playlist of videos on YouTube by Terry Reese explaining the extensive features of MarcEdit. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrHRsJ91nVFScJLS91SWR5awtFfpewMWg
USING MARCEDIT FOR BATCH EDITING OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORDS By: Yan Wang Senior Librarian 1 Library Services Central Piedmont Community College http://www.slideshare.net/NCLA2011/using-marcedit-for-batch-cataloging
In preparation for upcoming changes to the display of digital objects in DIMES, I’ve been pursuing some enhancements to data export from ArchivesSpace. This began with a plugin to improve METS exports, including embedded MODS records, but then grew into […]
Like Jeopardy!, I want to tell you the answer before I get to the question. Following a newspaper digitization and markup standard helps us plan for the future and makes it easier for us to work with vendors, open-source software, […]
Implementing a Collaborative Workflow for Metadata Analysis, Quality Improvement, and Mapping The University of North Texas (UNT) and the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) are collaborating to digitize, process, and make publicly available more than one million photographs from the Oklahoma […]
Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project R. Niccole Westbrook, University of Houston Libraries Dan Johnson, University of Houston Libraries Karen Carter, Rutgers School of Communication and Information Angela Lockwood, Texas Women’s University School of Library and Information Studies […]
Metadata Quality Control (Jan 2015) DOI: 10.3318/DRI.2015.1 This short guide discusses the basics of metadata quality control, including why metadata quality matters, problems inherent in poor quality metadata, and steps one can take to improve metadata quality. The guide is […]
Archival and Cataloging Procedures Photos, manuscripts and other objects are selected from Oviatt Library Special Collections & Archives or non-CSUN repositories http://digital-library.csun.edu/Guidelines/Workflow.html