by the Mountain West Digital Library Created by the Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) Metadata Working Group in 2009/10, this profile superseded the Metadata Guidelines for the Mountain West Digital Library (2006). It is intended to guide the creation of new […]
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 Marielle Veve, University of North Florida The following paper presents an extension of the semi-automated approach originally created by Deng and Reese, but customized and adapted to address the particular needs of the Digital Commons community and updated to […]
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 […]
by Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library These procedures outline the steps needed to batch upload items into CONTENTdm when there is an established online finding aid. This process focuses on “low-tech” ways to use the content or container list displayed in table […]
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 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 […]
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 […]