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Accessing Web Archives: Integrating An Archive-It Collection Into Ebsco Discovery Service, Christina A. Beis, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler Jun 2019

Accessing Web Archives: Integrating An Archive-It Collection Into Ebsco Discovery Service, Christina A. Beis, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler

Kayla Harris

Effective collaboration between archives and technical services can increase the discoverability of special collection materials. Archivists at the University of Dayton Libraries began using Archive-It to capture websites relevant to their collecting policies in 2015. However, the collections were only made available to users from the University of Dayton page on the Archive-It website. Content was isolated in a separate platform and was not promoted to users. Working together, the team of archivists and technical services librarians incorporated the web archive collections into the Libraries’ EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) discovery layer. A local data dictionary was created based on OCLC’s …


Virtual Reality Record Metadata, Michele Gibney Jun 2019

Virtual Reality Record Metadata, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

In 2018, the University of the Pacific Libraries worked with a faculty member in the School of Engineering and Computer Science to upload a class project involving multi-file records to the institutional repository. One of the file types was an .EXE executable Virtual Reality (VR) application. This was a first at the institution and in my experience with institutional repositories; I was stymied on how to describe and provide metadata for the VR piece – to both human and machine audiences. Attempting to read up on best practices and query the community didn’t result in much concrete assistance and we …


Abcds Of E: Managing Metadata For E-Books And Streaming Media, Rebecca B. French, Allison Lyttle, Faye Goodman Dec 2018

Abcds Of E: Managing Metadata For E-Books And Streaming Media, Rebecca B. French, Allison Lyttle, Faye Goodman

Rebecca B. French

This poster outlines the functions performed by the JMU Libraries E-Monograph Team to acquire and analyze, batch edit, check access, and distribute or delete metadata records for e-books and streaming media materials.


Best Practices For Mapping Digital Commons Metadata For Harvesting By Share, Lisa Palmer, Joanne Paterson, Wendy C. Robertson, Emily Stenberg Feb 2018

Best Practices For Mapping Digital Commons Metadata For Harvesting By Share, Lisa Palmer, Joanne Paterson, Wendy C. Robertson, Emily Stenberg

Wendy C Robertson

No abstract provided.


Best Practices For Mapping Digital Commons Metadata For Harvesting By Share, Lisa Palmer, Joanne Paterson, Wendy C Robertson, Emily Stenberg Feb 2018

Best Practices For Mapping Digital Commons Metadata For Harvesting By Share, Lisa Palmer, Joanne Paterson, Wendy C Robertson, Emily Stenberg

Lisa A. Palmer

No abstract provided.


Overcoming Legacy Processing In Photographic Collections Through Collaboration And Digital Technologies., Terri Holtze, Rachel I. Howard, Randy Kuehn, Rebecca Pattillo, Elizabeth Reilly Dec 2017

Overcoming Legacy Processing In Photographic Collections Through Collaboration And Digital Technologies., Terri Holtze, Rachel I. Howard, Randy Kuehn, Rebecca Pattillo, Elizabeth Reilly

Rachel I. Howard

In the 1960s, a Louisville photography studio began donating its negatives, prints, and invoices to the University of Louisville Photographic Archives. The Caufield & Shook Collection remains a significant primary source for local history and a prime candidate for digitization. Unfortunately, on its receipt non-archivists processed the collection with little documentation of original order or organizational decision making. Additionally, workflow choices were determined largely by the desire to maximize student labor. In 2017, the Digital Initiatives Librarian worked with in-house application developers and archives staff to create a workflow that has significantly sped up the process of making this valuable …


Overcoming Legacy Processing In Photographic Collections Through Collaboration And Digital Technologies., Terri Holtze, Rachel I. Howard, Randy Kuehn, Rebecca Pattillo, Elizabeth Reilly Dec 2017

Overcoming Legacy Processing In Photographic Collections Through Collaboration And Digital Technologies., Terri Holtze, Rachel I. Howard, Randy Kuehn, Rebecca Pattillo, Elizabeth Reilly

Terri Holtze

In the 1960s, a Louisville photography studio began donating its negatives, prints, and invoices to the University of Louisville Photographic Archives. The Caufield & Shook Collection remains a significant primary source for local history and a prime candidate for digitization. Unfortunately, on its receipt non-archivists processed the collection with little documentation of original order or organizational decision making. Additionally, workflow choices were determined largely by the desire to maximize student labor. In 2017, the Digital Initiatives Librarian worked with in-house application developers and archives staff to create a workflow that has significantly sped up the process of making this valuable …


Planning A Juried Art Exhibit In An Academic Library And Providing Digital Access In An Institutional Repository, Amber Sherman, Elaine Watson, Gwyn Hervochon Dec 2017

Planning A Juried Art Exhibit In An Academic Library And Providing Digital Access In An Institutional Repository, Amber Sherman, Elaine Watson, Gwyn Hervochon

Amber Sherman

This article details one academic library’s experience organizing a juried art exhibit, open to the campus and local community, and making digital images of the artwork available in the university’s institutional repository. The article also outlines considerations when creating a digital representation of the art exhibit in the institutional repository.


Application Profile Development For Consortial Digital Libraries: An Ohiolink Case Study, Emily A. Hicks, Jody Perkins, Margaret Maurer Jun 2017

Application Profile Development For Consortial Digital Libraries: An Ohiolink Case Study, Emily A. Hicks, Jody Perkins, Margaret Maurer

Emily A. Hicks

In 2002, OhioLINK’s consortia of libraries recognized the need to restructure and standardize the metadata used in the OhioLINK Digital Media Center as a step in the development of a general purpose digital object re-pository. The authors explore the concept of digital object repositories and mechanisms used to develop complex data structures in a cooperative environment, report the findings and recommendations of the OhioLINK Data-base Management and Standards Committee (DMSC) Metadata Task Force, and identify lessons learned, ad-dressing data structures as well as data content standards. A significant result of the work was the creation of the OhioLINK Digital Media …


Mind The Gap: Curating Digital Commons Metadata For Share, Lisa Palmer, Emily Stenberg, Wendy C. Robertson, Joanne Paterson Jun 2017

Mind The Gap: Curating Digital Commons Metadata For Share, Lisa Palmer, Emily Stenberg, Wendy C. Robertson, Joanne Paterson

Wendy C Robertson

The goal of the SHARE initiative, a partnership between the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Center for Open Science (COS), is to build a “free, open, data set about research and scholarly activities across their life cycle.” As of October 12, 2016, 129 repositories and publishers have made metadata available to SHARE for harvesting, and the aggregated data set is available for searching. Many metadata providers are institutional repositories utilizing the bepress Digital Commons platform whose metadata is harvested through the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol for repository interoperability. As part of the 2016-2017 …


Mind The Gap: Curating Digital Commons Metadata For Share, Lisa Palmer, Emily Stenberg, Wendy C. Robertson, Joanne Paterson Mar 2017

Mind The Gap: Curating Digital Commons Metadata For Share, Lisa Palmer, Emily Stenberg, Wendy C. Robertson, Joanne Paterson

Lisa A. Palmer

The goal of the SHARE initiative, a partnership between the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Center for Open Science (COS), is to build a “free, open, data set about research and scholarly activities across their life cycle.” As of October 12, 2016, 129 repositories and publishers have made metadata available to SHARE for harvesting, and the aggregated data set is available for searching. Many metadata providers are institutional repositories utilizing the bepress Digital Commons platform whose metadata is harvested through the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol for repository interoperability.

As part of …


How To Read 100 Million Publications: Vivo And Comprehensive Open Publication Databases, John Mark Ockerbloom Aug 2016

How To Read 100 Million Publications: Vivo And Comprehensive Open Publication Databases, John Mark Ockerbloom

John Mark Ockerbloom

A number of commercially developed
publication databases such as Web of
Science and Google Scholar aim to provide a
comprehensive view of the scholarly literature.
Such databases are quite large in scale, needing
to handle metadata on the order of about 100
million publications, and to grow by more
than 1 million new publication records every
year. There is ongoing interest in creating
more open comprehensive databases in the
community as well, for various purposes,
ranging from open access support to
preservation to various kinds of researcher
analysis. Is it worth creating and supporting
such open databases in the community, …


How Not To Waste Catalogers' Time: Making The Most Of Subject Headings, John Mark Ockerbloom Mar 2016

How Not To Waste Catalogers' Time: Making The Most Of Subject Headings, John Mark Ockerbloom

John Mark Ockerbloom

The subject descriptions of well-cataloged library resources have rich semantics, but most online catalogs and discovery systems do not take full advantage of them, and the headings assigned by librarians do not always match the descriptions users expect. This session features ideas, demonstrations, and discussion on how we can improve the design and the data in our catalogs and discovery systems to improve discovery of relevant materials. It will focus on how to better take advantage of the kinds of data that catalogers already create. Topics to be discussed include:
-- How to take advantage of subject heading order in …


Becoming The Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection To Digital Humanities, Rose Fortier, Heather G. James Feb 2016

Becoming The Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection To Digital Humanities, Rose Fortier, Heather G. James

Heather James

The Gothic Archive is the flagship digital humanities project for the Marquette University library. The project was birthed from a simple digital collection, and through the partnership of faculty and librarians, was transformed into something more. The core tenets of digital collection creation were adhered to in order to create a solid foundation upon which to build the Archive. The expertise of both groups and communication were key in the evolution of the collection, and in discovering and highlighting the relationships between the objects. This case study reviews the steps Marquette took in creating the collection and taking it to …


Glis 649 W2016 Presentation On Metadata, Eun Park Dec 2015

Glis 649 W2016 Presentation On Metadata, Eun Park

Group 6 649

Class lecture/presentation on Metadata


Hidden Stories, Inclusive Perspectives: Describing Photographs Of Jewish Refugees In Shanghai, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian Dec 2015

Hidden Stories, Inclusive Perspectives: Describing Photographs Of Jewish Refugees In Shanghai, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

When a collection of over 600 photographs and negatives was discovered in the backlog of Loyola Marymount University (LMU) Library’s Department of Archives and Special Collections, there were moments of surprise, intrigue, and fascination. While information about the collection is limited, the pictures have presumably been taken by Werner von Bolternstern, a photographer and avid postcard collector, who donated the collection (among many others) to LMU. The Werner von Bolternstern Shanghai Photograph and Negative Collection offers rare visual records and remarkable documentation of life in Shanghai, China, from 1937 to 1949. Besides Shanghai urban landscapes, historical architecture, and street scenes, …


Becoming The Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection To Digital Humanities, Rose Fortier, Heather G. James Jun 2015

Becoming The Gothic Archive: From Digital Collection To Digital Humanities, Rose Fortier, Heather G. James

Rose Fortier

The Gothic Archive is the flagship digital humanities project for the Marquette University library. The project was birthed from a simple digital collection, and through the partnership of faculty and librarians, was transformed into something more. The core tenets of digital collection creation were adhered to in order to create a solid foundation upon which to build the Archive. The expertise of both groups and communication were key in the evolution of the collection, and in discovering and highlighting the relationships between the objects. This case study reviews the steps Marquette took in creating the collection and taking it to …


The Ohiolink Digital Media Center Application Profile: A New Tool For Ohio Digital Collections, Emily A. Hicks, Jody Perkins, Margaret Maurer Feb 2015

The Ohiolink Digital Media Center Application Profile: A New Tool For Ohio Digital Collections, Emily A. Hicks, Jody Perkins, Margaret Maurer

Margaret Beecher Maurer

No abstract provided.


Application Profile Development For Consortial Digital Libraries: An Ohiolink Case Study, Emily A. Hicks, Jody Perkins, Margaret Maurer Feb 2015

Application Profile Development For Consortial Digital Libraries: An Ohiolink Case Study, Emily A. Hicks, Jody Perkins, Margaret Maurer

Margaret Beecher Maurer

In 2002, OhioLINK’s consortia of libraries recognized the need to restructure and standardize the metadata used in the OhioLINK Digital Media Center as a step in the development of a general purpose digital object re-pository. The authors explore the concept of digital object repositories and mechanisms used to develop complex data structures in a cooperative environment, report the findings and recommendations of the OhioLINK Data-base Management and Standards Committee (DMSC) Metadata Task Force, and identify lessons learned, ad-dressing data structures as well as data content standards. A significant result of the work was the creation of the OhioLINK Digital Media …


The Ohiolink Digital Media Center Application Profile, A New Tool For Ohio Digital Collections, Emily A. Hicks, Jody Perkins, Margaret Maurer Feb 2015

The Ohiolink Digital Media Center Application Profile, A New Tool For Ohio Digital Collections, Emily A. Hicks, Jody Perkins, Margaret Maurer

Margaret Beecher Maurer

No abstract provided.


Match That Photo! Embracing Analog Methods To Enhance Digital Collections, Erin Passehl-Stoddart Jan 2015

Match That Photo! Embracing Analog Methods To Enhance Digital Collections, Erin Passehl-Stoddart

Erin Passehl Stoddart

When creating digital collections, different methods and workflows may be considered depending on the size, amount of metadata, and who will be staffing parts of the digitization process. Feeling overwhelmed with 500+ photographs with minimal metadata, I employed an analog tactic: playing a card matching game with printed photographs. Through matching, metadata was enhanced and locations identified more efficiently than staring at a computer screen. This lightning talk will present alternative ways to employ visual literacy tactics to provide a creative, fun way to involve students and staff in creating and enhancing large digital collections.


The Ohiolink Digital Media Center Application Profile, A New Tool For Ohio Digital Collections, Emily A. Hicks, Jody Perkins, Margaret Maurer Jan 2015

The Ohiolink Digital Media Center Application Profile, A New Tool For Ohio Digital Collections, Emily A. Hicks, Jody Perkins, Margaret Maurer

Emily A. Hicks

No abstract provided.


Moving The Marc: Transitioning Workflows To Target Digital Resources, Susan A. Massey Nov 2014

Moving The Marc: Transitioning Workflows To Target Digital Resources, Susan A. Massey

Susan A. Massey

Susan A. Massey, Head of Discovery Enhancement at the University of North Florida Thomas G. Carpenter Library, talks about how the UNF library Cataloging Department transitioned to a broader role supporting metadata for digital projects and loading electronic book records into their EBSCO Discovery System. Topics covered include: • Analyzing workflows to identify competencies and efficiencies • Marketing to administrators • Preparing staff for change • Making the most of technology tools • Physical space arrangement • Reorganization and reassessment


Report Of The Alcts Cataloging And Metadata Management Section Cataloging And Classification Research Interest Group Meeting, American Library Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, June 2011, Susan A. Massey Aug 2014

Report Of The Alcts Cataloging And Metadata Management Section Cataloging And Classification Research Interest Group Meeting, American Library Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, June 2011, Susan A. Massey

Susan A. Massey

The ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group (CCRIG) met at the 2011 American Library Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans for an e-forum summary, a research presentation, and a research blitz involving seven speakers.


Traditions And Transitions In Batchloaded Catalog Data, Susan A. Massey Aug 2014

Traditions And Transitions In Batchloaded Catalog Data, Susan A. Massey

Susan A. Massey

A Report of The ALCTS Cataloging & Metadata Management Section Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Dallas, Texas, January 2012 The ALCTS Cataloging & Metadata Management Section Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group (CCRIG) met at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas for three presentations on the topic of “Traditions and Transitions in Batchloaded Catalog Data,” followed by a panel discussion by the speakers addressing audience questions.


Cartographic Materials Metadata Transfer Between Integrated Library Systems, Leanne Olson May 2014

Cartographic Materials Metadata Transfer Between Integrated Library Systems, Leanne Olson

Leanne Olson

No abstract provided.


Evaluating Authority Control Processes At An Academic Institution, Leanne Olson, Christina Zoricic May 2014

Evaluating Authority Control Processes At An Academic Institution, Leanne Olson, Christina Zoricic

Leanne Olson

No abstract provided.


Rda Training Booklet -- Veve, Marielle Veve Mar 2014

Rda Training Booklet -- Veve, Marielle Veve

Marielle Veve

Practical booklet created to learn cataloging of print and e-books using RDA standards. Examples and guidelines are provided for each MARC field. In PdF format and contains a table of contents for easy navigation.

*Big file may take a while to download. 200 pages.

ARABIC version of this Toolkit: http://es.slideshare.net/Muawwad/ss-29973410

(translated by Muhammad A. Muawwad)


Navigating The Universe Of Etds: Streamlining For An Efficient And Sustainable Workflow At The University Of North Florida Library, Courtenay Mcleland, Marielle Veve Jan 2014

Navigating The Universe Of Etds: Streamlining For An Efficient And Sustainable Workflow At The University Of North Florida Library, Courtenay Mcleland, Marielle Veve

Marielle Veve

Since its inception in 2011, the Digital Projects and Preservation Department at the University of North Florida (UNF) Library has been digitizing print theses and dissertations while also offering a mediated option for online submissions through its institutional repository (IR). It was not until Fall 2012 that the submission of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) became a requirement for the university graduates. As time passed and the number of ETDs deposited grew, so did the need to streamline processes to avoid duplication of efforts, improve efficiencies, and save time. After much experimentation and effort, the presenters were able to successfully …


Controlled Vocabulary Standards For Anthropological Datasets, Celia Emmelhainz Jan 2014

Controlled Vocabulary Standards For Anthropological Datasets, Celia Emmelhainz

Celia Emmelhainz

This article seeks to outline the use of controlled vocabulary standards for qualitative datasets in cultural anthropology, which are increasingly held in researcher-accessible government repositories and online digital libraries. As a humanistic science that can address almost any aspect of life with meaning to humans, cultural anthropology has proven difficult for librarians and archivists to effectively organize. Yet as anthropology moves onto the web, the challenge of organizing and curating information within the field only grows. In considering the subject classification of digital information in anthropology, I ask how we might best use controlled vocabularies for indexing digital anthropological data. …