The South Carolina State Library is now digitizing collections of state documents for its digital library, powered by DSpace. The digital library will be available online soon. Below are instructions used by staff members to scan, edit, quality control, catalog, […]
Blog post written by Noah Huffman, Duke University Libraries At Duke, we’ve been creating finding aids in EAD (Encoded Archival Description) since the late 1990s. Prior to implementing ArchivesSpace (June 2015) and its predecessor Archivists Toolkit (2012), we created EAD […]
Blog post written by the Digital Scholarship Unit, University of Toronto Scarborough Library Lately we’ve been trying to come up with a better way to create metadata for batch ingestion into Islandora. We often work with faculty and other people outside […]
Developed by the Mountain West Digital Library Geospatial Discovery Task Force Best practices developed by the MWDL Geospatial Discovery Task Force for recording geospatial metadata for aggregated harvest. Instructions include recommendations for including place name hierarchy, URI’s, and latitude and […]
Developed by the Mountain West Digital Library Geospatial Discovery Task Force Tutorial for using the GeoNames.org database to create geospatial metadata for Dublin Core records. This tutorial also instructions for understanding, using, and adding to records in GeoNames.org database. InstructionsforAssigningGeospatialMetadataUsingGeoNames
Presentation at the American Library Association Conference 2015 by Eric Hanson, North Carolina State University, Cory Lampert, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Silvia B. Southwick, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This program focused on the practical steps involved in creating […]
Blog post by Noah Huffman, Duke University Libraries As part of a recent project to migrate data from EAD (Encoded Archival Description) toArchivesSpace, I needed to clean up about 27,000 name and subject headings spread across over 2,000 EAD records […]
There are a lot of reasons to turn a spreadsheet into a finding aid. Maybe your donor sent you an inventory of a new accession in Excel, and you want to modify and re-use that data. Maybe you’ve determined that […]
Just a couple of library professionals. One of us specializes in special collections; the other in metadata. We both care passionately about preservation — be it physical objects or files on a hard drive. We also care about music — […]
I’m working currently on migrating a lot of our non-MARC metadata collections from older platforms using a kind of simple Dublin Core to MODS/XML (version 3.5, we’re currently looking at 3.6) that will be ingested into Islandora. That ‘kind of […]