J. Willard Marriott Library Digital Archive: Appraisal/Selection Guide
J. Willard Marriott Library Digital Archive: Appraisal/Selection Guide By Tawnya Keller https://www.lib.utah.edu/pdf/digital-library/appraisal-selectionguide.pdf
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transmog
Transmog by University of Virginia Libraries Transmog is a simple web application to aid in the conversion of Word documents into more meaningfully structured XML documents. Originally designed to convert archival finding aids into EAD XML files, this application now […]
Collecting Open Access information using OpenRefine and the oaDOI API
By John Holmberg Runsten This tutorial explains how OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org/) together with the oaDOI API (https://oadoi.org/) from Impactstory can be used to collect Open Access information. aoDOI collects open access evidence from DOAJ, crossref, BASE, and pmicd. This can be […]
Describing Web Archives – Automating Access with APIs and ArchivesSpace
Describing Web Archives Automating Access with APIs and ArchivesSpace By Gregory Wiedeman, University Archivist, University at Albany, SUNY IIPC Web Archiving Week 2017 London http://www.gregwiedeman.com/presentations/slides/iipc.html#/
Productive is Pretty: Using Trello to Visualize Project Management for Effective Organizations and Fun-Loving People
Productive is Pretty: Using Trello to Visualize Project Management for Effective Organizations and Fun-Loving People By Dani and Jess http://theroughlyrightway.com/productive-pretty/
An Introduction to SQL for Librarians
An Introduction to SQL for Librarians By Ruth Kitchen Tillman Why are Librarians Suited to SQL? Because querying information is what we do. You’ve thought “ok this is what I want, now where do I go to get it and […]
Requests: HTTP for Humans
Requests allows you to send organic, grass-fed HTTP/1.1 requests, without the need for manual labor. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, […]
OpenRefine Python Client Library
OpenRefine Python Client Library by Paul Makepeace The OpenRefine Python Client Library provides an interface to communicating with an OpenRefine server. https://github.com/PaulMakepeace/refine-client-py
refinr – R package implementation of OpenRefine clustering algorithms
refinr by Chris Muir R package implementation of two algorithms from the open source software OpenRefine. These functions take a character vector as input, identify and cluster similar values, and then merge clusters together so their values become identical. The […]
The Preservation of Glass Plate Negatives
by Greta Bahnemann Almost all archives possess some type of photographic collection. Many individuals typically think of “photographs” as plastic-based negatives and slides; but these photographic techniques are relatively recent inventions. Prior to the invention of cellulose nitrate film in […]