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Linking People: Developing Collaborative Regional Vocabularies, Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour
Linking People: Developing Collaborative Regional Vocabularies, Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour
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More metadata, more metadata problems
- Vendor based DAMS often not offering good authority control solutions
- Libraries in Utah often consult additional regional names sources
Improving Access To Special Collections By Automating Descriptive Metadata Creation, Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour, Betsey Welland, Jessica Breiman
Improving Access To Special Collections By Automating Descriptive Metadata Creation, Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour, Betsey Welland, Jessica Breiman
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Covering today
Background information about Special Collections and Digital Library Services
Overview of ways we are processing data:
- Extracting data from finding aids for item level description in digital collections
- Extracting and Analyzing Names/Subjects in EAD
- EAD to MARC record transform through MARCEdit
- Techniques for working with legacy data
Metadata Managed: How To Clean Data That Is Up To No Good., Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour
Metadata Managed: How To Clean Data That Is Up To No Good., Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour
Faculty Publications
Metadata Problems
- Size of collections –Close to 300 collections, over 2 million items.
- Age of collections – started digitizing in 2000
- Inconsistent training
- Variety of collections means different conventions used for collections from:
- Internal
- external
- Campus Partners