The Metadata Team works primarily on providing access to digitized items and to assist with and provide consulting for Digital Humanities projects. Metadata Workflow diagram from University of Alabama Libraries. http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/index.php/Descriptive_Metadata_Workflows
Semantic metadata enrichment and digital libraries from Europeana http://www.slideshare.net/ValentineCharles/evaluation-of-metadata-enrichment-practices-in-digital-librariessteps-towards-better-data-enrichments
This tool consumes the clusters exported by OpenRefine and aims to provide an easy interface for stakeholders to participate in the process of deciding what the “canonical” representation of a data value should be. See the demo at: http://amiaopensource.github.io/TIDY A […]
XML is a widely used format for information serialization, transfer, and processing. Unfortunately, because of its document-centric nature, XML is unnecessarily inconvenient to work with in contexts where content consists of multiple independent records, and where streaming and/or fault-tolerant processing […]
In order to take advantage of our routine batch loading process, the finding aid metadata workflow transforms the EAD metadata from the finding aid and outputs it into a .csv file for use with the simple archive format packager SAFBuilder. […]
Knowledge Bank featured collection this month is the Jesse Owens Photographs collection. The collection currently contains 141 images – a sampling of the more than two thousand photographs from the life of Jesse Owens held at The Ohio State University […]
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 […]