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 Allison Jai O’Dell and Steven Duckworth From Code4Lib 2016 Do your finding aids look a bit … dated? Perhaps you wrote that EAD-to-HTML XSLT a decade ago? Take advantage of contemporary development and design tools — engage users and […]
By Conal Tuohy “Visualizing Government Archives through Linked Data” blog post (includes links to source code) about an automated gateway which harvests from an OAI-PMH repository, transforms the harvested records into RDF/XML using an XSLT, and deposits the resulting RDF […]
by Jen Young, Northwestern University This XSLT was used to transform MARCXML files for our instance of a Voyager database of digitized images into VRA Core 4 XML files for ingest into our Images Repository. Our image database had […]
In order to take advantage of our routine batch loading process, the finding aid metadata workflow transforms the EAD metadata from the finding aid and outputs it into a .csv file for use with the simple archive format packager SAFBuilder. […]
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 […]
Metadata Workflow Resources For FSU University Libraries These are tools developed my the Metadata Librarian at Florida State University, University Libraries. They are intended to ease the creation of metadata for Florida State University’s Digital Library. All are released with […]
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 […]
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) […]
Spreadsheets To Encoded Archival Description. Turns CSV files of container lists into a stub EAD XML record. https://github.com/jronallo/stead