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 Allison Jai O’Dell and Steven Duckworth From Code4Lib 2016 Do your finding aids look a bit … dated? Perhaps you wrote that EAD-to-HTML XSLT a decade ago? Take advantage of contemporary development and design tools — engage users and […]
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 Sarah Wipperman This Google sheet is a sample of how we perform our copyright/permissions process when working on assessing a faculty member’s publications for inclusion in the University of Pennsylvania’s institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons (http://repository.upenn.edu). When we perform permissions checks, […]
by Sarah Wipperman, University of Pennsylvania This workflow illustrates the typical way that projects are ingested into the University of Pennsylvania’s institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons (http://repository.upenn.edu). The workflow is not exhaustive in describing the process and does not discuss the more […]
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 […]
Catmandu provides a suite of Perl modules to ease the import, storage, retrieval, export and transformation of metadata records. Combine Catmandu modules with web application frameworks such as PSGI/Plack, document stores such as MongoDB and full text indexes as Solr […]
Tools for creating reports on CONTENTdm repository metadata by Andy Weidner https://github.com/metaweidner/cdmeta_reports Harvest names and subjects from the CONTENTdm API: harvest_names.rb harvest_subjects.rb Filter the harvest files for vocab specific lists of unique values: filter_names.rb filter_subjects.rb
by the ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace Workflow Integration project, Bentley Historical Library One of the most powerful tools that we’ve been making use of in our task to migrate our legacy EADs and accession records to ArchivesSpace is the ArchivesSpace API (Application Programming […]