Climbing Metadata By Tallie Casucci and Rachel Wittmann This website aims to provide guidance and help metadata practitioners accurately identify and describe materials that contain rock climbing or similar sports. The goal of this guide is to encourage improved metadata […]
Folderlist Tool A Windows executable program (created from a Windows Powershell script) for generating basic metadata on a file directory for use in archival description. By Lara Friedman-Shedlov https://github.com/laradfs/folderlist-tool
Dalhousie Libraries Documentation Wiki – Digitization Handbook The Digitization Handbook outlines the procedures and technical specifications used to digitize archival and special collections held by the Dalhousie Libraries. https://dallibraries.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DCH/overview?homepageId=12845128
Digitization Workflows: Streamlining the Digitization Process and Distinguishing the Peculiarities in Capturing Various Archival Materials by Marina Georgieva With thousands of archival collections prioritized for digitization and numerous grant opportunities for external funding, large-scale digitization is on the rise. That’s […]
Finding the balance: Modelling successful workflows for digital library collections Journal of Digital Media Management, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2018, pp. 295-311 Workflows can be powerful tools for building and sustaining effective communication and efficient processes, especially in large organisations […]
Digitization at the Portal to Texas History by McIntosh, Marcia and Mangum, Jake The presentation introduces the process of digitizing material into the Portal to Texas History. It was presented at the 2020 Texas Association of Museums Conference. The history […]
Archiving Oral History: Manual of Best Practices by the Oral History Association This document is intended to be viewed in context as an addendum to the Oral History Association’s Principles and Best Practices. It is important to note that this […]
As part of the LDL as Data Grant, the project team is thrilled to announce an online speaker series. The series features digital library practitioners and users from across the country. The schedule is a work in progress and will […]
Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem by Sharon Mizota This presentation describes the metadata schema, content standard, and taxonomy guidelines created for Curationist.org, a crowd-sourced, multilingual aggregator of open access cultural content. Designed to […]
Core Concepts and Practical Techniques for Successful Library Metadata Analysis by Stacie Traill & Martin Patrick, University of Minnesota Libraries Presentation for CORE Virtual Forum, Nov 18 2020 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DHo4P7vIdNvWgbKtpDJWPVv6qtbJ-9R4Q2GjsFo7Un8/edit#slide=id.p