EADoodler
EADoodler By Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive This script uses lxml to generate a representation of an EAD XML document that you can do different stuff with. The basic EAD class handles the namespace junk that EAD includes […]
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NISO DEIA Webinars
Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Committee has been charged with helping us identify and prioritize concrete actions in support of DEIA in the information community. This series of three webinars — open to everyone, free of charge — […]
A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata
By Martin Poulter We have a list of names of things, plus some idea of what type of things they are, and we want to integrate them into a database. I have been working on place names in Chinese, but […]
indigenous/LC/Wikidata project
indigenous LC Wikidata project By Noah Geraci These are scripts used in a project to reconcile Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) terms that name indigenous peoples of North America with Wikidata items. The file generated by make_wikidata_csv.py was used […]
Batch Download LCSH Files
Batch Download LCSH Files By Elliot D. Williams A process to batch download Library of Congress Subject Heading files using curl with details of analysis in OpenRefine. http://www.elliotdwilliams.com/batch-download-lcsh-files/
Climbing Metadata
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 […]
Online Speaker Series – Louisiana Digital Library as Data
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
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
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
Mountain West Digital Library Metadata Application Profile v.3
by the Mountain West Digital Library Created by the Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) Metadata Working Group in 2019, this profile superseded the Metadata Guidelines for the Mountain West Digital Library (v. 2, 2012). It is intended to guide the […]