by Kelley F. Rowan, Florida International University This presentation was given at the Panhandle Library Access Network’s (PLAN) Innovation Conference: Digitization- Preserving the Past for the Future Conference on August 14th, 2015. The presentation uses a specific collection of directories […]
by Lynn K. Whittenberger, Marquette University Describes Raynor Library’s process to export MARC records and upload them to the Catholic Research Resources Association (CRRA) database. Steps through the process of extracting the records from local Innovative Interfaces Sierra database, and […]
By Sandra McIntyre, Mountain West Digital Library A few months back, we learned about some useful tools for metadata auditing. The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center shared these tools with other Service Hubs in the Digital Public Library of America […]
by University of North Texas Digital Projects Unit These are the current UNT Libraries’ guidelines for creating metadata, broken down by individual fields. They are based on a modified Dublin Core structure, but include more specific local instructions and precedents that […]
by Sheet Music Consortium hosted by Indiana University The Metadata Mapping Tool can be used to generate and validate metadata from a source file of data about a sheet music collection. This tool can also be used to validate […]
by Christina Harlow This Repository just covers the ‘Enhancing Metadata with Geospatial Data’ workshop portion: see the link to the full workshop schedule and documentation here:http://bit.ly/DLF15geowkshop DLF Forum 2015 Purposes for this portion/intro to scope shift Getting items in previously […]
by Cynthia Ng So there does exist a document already on this topic, Getting OCLC numbers into your vendor records using MarcEdit but I found the instructions difficult to refer to. I ended up writing my own version with the […]
by Christina Harlow Data munging, or the work of remediating, enhancing and transforming library datasets for new or improved uses, has become more important and staff-inclusive in many library technology discussions and projects. Many times we know how we want […]
by Christina Harlow An OpenRefine reconciliation service for GeoNames. Tested with, working on python 2.7.10, 3.4.3. The service queries the GeoNames API and provides normalized scores across queries for reconciling in Refine. https://github.com/cmh2166/geonames-reconcile
by Liz Woolcott These instructions will outline the basic steps for creating exhibits in Omeka using the Exhibit Builder plugin. Omeka Exhibit Building Tutorial