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Batch Uploading To Contentdm With The Help Of Ms Access, Joanne M. Riley
Batch Uploading To Contentdm With The Help Of Ms Access, Joanne M. Riley
Joseph P. Healey Library Publications
Microsoft Access is a great tool for minimizing headaches, streamlining data entry and ensuring quality control in preparing batch uploads for CONTENTdm collections. At UMass Boston, we store our descriptive metadata in MS Access tables by way of easy data entry forms. Then we use Access queries to automatically create all of the other necessary fields, to check for errors and, finally to generate a delimited text file that imports easily into the Project Client - almost always ;). This process has saved staff a great deal of time and effort and keeps their metadata safely backed up and available …
Batch Uploading To Contentdm With The Help Of Ms Access, Joanne M. Riley
Batch Uploading To Contentdm With The Help Of Ms Access, Joanne M. Riley
Joanne M. Riley
Microsoft Access is a great tool for minimizing headaches, streamlining data entry and ensuring quality control in preparing batch uploads for CONTENTdm collections. At UMass Boston, we store our descriptive metadata in MS Access tables by way of easy data entry forms. Then we use Access queries to automatically create all of the other necessary fields, to check for errors and, finally to generate a delimited text file that imports easily into the Project Client - almost always ;). This process has saved staff a great deal of time and effort and keeps their metadata safely backed up and available …
The Mass. Memories Road Show: A State-Wide Scanning Project, Joanne M. Riley, Heather Cole
The Mass. Memories Road Show: A State-Wide Scanning Project, Joanne M. Riley, Heather Cole
Joseph P. Healey Library Publications
The Mass. Memories Road Show (http://blogs.umb.edu/massmemories) is a public scanning project based at the University of Massachusetts Boston which partners with local communities to digitize family photographs and stories at public events with the goal of creating a digital portrait of all the 351 cities and towns in the Commonwealth. This article describes how the project works to ensure broad participation in the planning and execution of the project, as well as a detailed description of the logistics of a Road Show event, which could be replicated in other communities.