As alluded to in a previous post, the Library’s Digital Collections platform recently underwent a relatively major change – adopting the “BagIt” specification, developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), for ingest and export of our digital objects. Impetus […]
Carleton College Wiki: This procedure is designed to make a consistent and scaleable workflow to prepare digital files for long term preservation, description online and distribution online. I will also describe the standards we follow, including any modifications to those […]
EADMachine is an easy EAD creation and editing tool. It uses a speadsheet template to enter data and automatically converts between spreadsheet and valid EAD, matching either a default template or a local EAD file. EADMachine also automatically creates a […]
LXML is an awesome python tool for reading and editing xml files, and we’ve been using it extensively during the grant period to do programmatic cleanup to our legacy EAD files. To give an example of just how powerful the […]
XQuery is a simple, yet powerful, scripting language designed to enable users without formal programming training to extract, transform, and manipulate XML data. Moreover, the language is an accepted standard and a W3C recommendation much like its sister standards, XML […]
A site for sharing policies & procedures with the wider library network. https://staff.lib.ncsu.edu/confluence/display/MNC/Home
by Cynthia Ng So there does exist a document already on this topic, Getting OCLC numbers into your vendor records using MarcEdit but I found the instructions difficult to refer to. I ended up writing my own version with the […]
The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are […]
CONTENTdm2Flickr is an interface to publish images and metadata from CONTENTdm® OAI-enabled image repositories to Flickr®. This project was developed by members of the web team at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries, and was inspired by the Bulk CONTENTdm to Flickr […]
By Lynn Whittenberger, Metadata Librarian, Raynor Memorial Library, Marquette University Abstract: Describes the steps taken to extract Author/Corporate names from our local catalog (III-Sierra), the initial data cleanup work done in Microsoft Excel, and the final data cleanup work and […]