by Emory University Libraries and Information Technologies, Metadata Working Group The Metadata Working Group works to establish best practices for metadata creation and management within the Emory University Libraries, Libraries and IT Services, and broader campus community. Our goal is […]
by the Mountain West Digital Library How to view what is being served up in real time via OAI for your collection. Querying your collection’s OAI stream in a Web browser is a great way to check the mapping of […]
by the University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The steps below will outline how a server can be manually added to the database list within MarcEdit as well as how to perform a search on that database […]
by the University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This functionality is designed to allow users to query databases using the z39.50 protocol and save the records in MARC form or browse them in a MARC notepad format […]
by Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library These procedures outline the steps for linking digital collections to archival collections marked up in EAD, focusing on items scanned at the item level. This process focuses on “low-tech” ways to convert metadata from CONTENTdm into container […]
Iowa State University (ISU), Metadata & Cataloging Department, In-house Training Materials By Jacob Shelby Here lies materials that have been developed by the ISU Metadata & Cataloging Department for in-house training purposes regarding metadata. Slides have been edited to include […]
Eben English and Steven Carl Anderson Perhaps you’ve got lots of metadata at your institution — some of it in relational databases, or collections of XML docs, or possibly even an assortment of spreadsheets. Maybe you’ve been hearing a lot […]
By Conal Tuohy “Visualizing Government Archives through Linked Data” blog post (includes links to source code) about an automated gateway which harvests from an OAI-PMH repository, transforms the harvested records into RDF/XML using an XSLT, and deposits the resulting RDF […]
Coordinators: Shawn Averkamp, Sara Rubinow, Matt Miller, Josh Hadro Tools and standards abound for creating and enriching metadata, but measuring, monitoring, and managing metadata for the long haul can be a daunting task. What tools are out there to assess […]
by Ruth Tillman When developing local collections, librarians and archivists often create detailed metadata which then gets stored in collection-specific silos. At times, the metadata could be used to augment other collections but the software does not provide native support […]