Developed by the Mountain West Digital Library Geospatial Discovery Task Force Tutorial for using the GeoNames.org database to create geospatial metadata for Dublin Core records. This tutorial also instructions for understanding, using, and adding to records in GeoNames.org database. InstructionsforAssigningGeospatialMetadataUsingGeoNames
Presentation at the American Library Association Conference 2015 by Eric Hanson, North Carolina State University, Cory Lampert, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Silvia B. Southwick, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This program focused on the practical steps involved in creating […]
Blog post by Noah Huffman, Duke University Libraries As part of a recent project to migrate data from EAD (Encoded Archival Description) toArchivesSpace, I needed to clean up about 27,000 name and subject headings spread across over 2,000 EAD records […]
There are a lot of reasons to turn a spreadsheet into a finding aid. Maybe your donor sent you an inventory of a new accession in Excel, and you want to modify and re-use that data. Maybe you’ve determined that […]
I’m working currently on migrating a lot of our non-MARC metadata collections from older platforms using a kind of simple Dublin Core to MODS/XML (version 3.5, we’re currently looking at 3.6) that will be ingested into Islandora. That ‘kind of […]
This guide is a companion to the Data Preparation for Digital Humanities Research workshop. It is designed to help you begin using OpenRefine to: ☞ facet data ☞ filter data ☞ cluster data ☞ transform data http://thomaspadilla.org/dataprep/
These instructions will outline the basic steps for uploading metadata and digital files to Omeka, individually, in batches, and via an OAI harvest.Omeka Metadata Uploading Guidelines
The Bentley Historical Library’s ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace Workflow Integration project seeks to improve the creation and reuse of metadata among systems and streamline the ingest and deposit of content in preservation repositories. Read our inaugural post for more information on the project! […]
The OpenWMS is a platform-independent, open source, web-accessible system that can be used as a standalone application or integrated with other repository architectures by a wide range of organizations. It provides a complete metadata creation system for analog and digital […]
The pose slide and artwork collections were batch loaded into the Knowledge Bank (a DSpace repository). Our routine process for batch loading involves creating a spreadsheet (.csv) containing the metadata and filename for each item. A stand-alone Java tool (SAFBuilder) […]