MODS to RDF Mapping Recommendations (v.1.0) By the Samvera MODS and RDF Descriptive Metadata Subgroup This application profile provides recommendations for mapping MODS XML metadata for digital objects to RDF Linked Data classes and properties using a range of widely-adopted […]
Rights Review: An approach to applying Rights Statements from RightsStatements.org (2019 version) By Bahnemann, Greta; Huber, Molly E; Ring, Sara; Sims, Nancy A. (Minnesota Digital Library/University of Minnesota Libraries, 2019) An illustration of one possible approach to determining which rights […]
Image collection migration : Internet Archive to Omeka By Patrick Wallace Here’s a little experiment, wherein I use the good ol’ internetarchive Python library to create a CSV suitable for Omeka’s CSV Import plugin, with the goal of migrating an […]
Metadata 2020’s Best Practices and Principles Project Group has collected links to existing metadata guidelines and best practices in order to shed light on what currently exists and whether they are applicable to the scholarly communications lifecycle. This list focuses […]
From the DLF AIG Metadata Working Group: The Clearinghouse is intended to be an extensible collection/repository of metadata application profiles, mappings, and related specifications that aid or guide descriptive metadata conventions in digital repository collections. The Clearinghouse intends to make […]
ALMA to HathiTrust Metadata Instructions By Jen Young Workflow for preparing records for HathiTrust from Alma https://gist.github.com/jenyoung/a70a2b857b3f6fead2505cbd64308531
By Simon Willison Blog post: https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jan/17/datasette-publish/ The fundamental idea behind Datasette is that publishing structured data as both a web interface and a JSON API should be as quick and easy as possible. The world is full of interesting data that […]
The ReDeFer project is a compendium of RDF-aware utilities organised in a set of packages: RDF2HTML+RDFa: render a piece of RDF/XML as HTML+RDFa. XSD2OWL: transform an XML Schema into an OWL Ontology. CS2OWL: transform a MPEG-7 Classification Scheme into an […]
Improving data quality at Europeana: New requirements and methods for better measuring metadata quality By Péter Király, Hugo Manguinhas, Valentine Charles, Antoine Isaac, and Timothy Hill https://www.slideshare.net/pkiraly/improving-data-quality-at-europeana-swib16
Metadata Quality Assurance Framework by Péter Király The Metadata Quality Assurance Framework is a research project on figuring out how can we decide in an algorithmical way whether a metadata record in a cultural heritage database is “good” or “bad”. […]