By Brigham Young University and Phil Harvey The following are instructions to run the command line tool Exiftool in Terminal (I think it can be adapted for Windows fairly easily, but I have not done so here). Exiftool generates […]
By Brigham Young University An example of a digitization quality assurance pass/fail checklist, for student employees’ use. Available through the Library Workflow Exchange: Quality Assurance (QA) PASS_FAIL Checklist – Sheet1
The level of quality control (QC) for metadata will vary based on the nature of the project, the project’s end goal, and the project’s metadata specifications.Metadata is created at multiple points throughout the digital project life cycle. For example, rights […]
Implementing a Collaborative Workflow for Metadata Analysis, Quality Improvement, and Mapping The University of North Texas (UNT) and the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS) are collaborating to digitize, process, and make publicly available more than one million photographs from the Oklahoma […]
Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project R. Niccole Westbrook, University of Houston Libraries Dan Johnson, University of Houston Libraries Karen Carter, Rutgers School of Communication and Information Angela Lockwood, Texas Women’s University School of Library and Information Studies […]
Metadata Quality Control (Jan 2015) DOI: 10.3318/DRI.2015.1 This short guide discusses the basics of metadata quality control, including why metadata quality matters, problems inherent in poor quality metadata, and steps one can take to improve metadata quality. The guide is […]
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, […]