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 to establish baseline standards to support Emory digital collections. These guidelines are developed with final…
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 lists for EAD finding aids, but can be adapted for workflows from other content management…
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 format in finding aids and convert it to a spreadsheet for batch uploading metadata to CONTENTdm. It…
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 Interface), which allows users to interact with the ArchivesSpace backend to more efficiently and programmatically…
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 through some combination of an XML editor (NoteTab, Oxygen), Excel spreadsheets, custom scripts, templates, and…
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 in XML. Because the majority of these EAD XML files were encoded by hand using…
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 Excel has data entry features that Archivists’ Toolkit doesn’t have, and you want to take…
The pose slide and artwork collections were batch loaded into the Knowledge Bank (a DSpace repository). Our routine process for batch loading involves creating a spreadsheet (.csv) containing the metadata and filename for each item. A stand-alone Java tool (SAFBuilder) transforms the metadata contained in the spreadsheet into dublin_core.xml files and builds the simple archive…
Spreadsheets To Encoded Archival Description. Turns CSV files of container lists into a stub EAD XML record. https://github.com/jronallo/stead