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Digital Collections Copyright Chart, 2019, Elliot Williams, Laura Capell Jan 2019

Digital Collections Copyright Chart, 2019, Elliot Williams, Laura Capell

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This chart was developed by Laura Capell and Elliot Williams to assist with making copyright determinations and assign RightsStatements.org statements to items in the University of Miami Libraries’ digital collections. It contains information about copyright status in the United States for a variety of rights scenarios, including published and unpublished material from both the U.S. and Cuba. The chart has been updated to be accurate as of January 2019.


Introduction To Metadata For Digital Libraries, Elliot Williams Jan 2018

Introduction To Metadata For Digital Libraries, Elliot Williams

Library Articles, Papers, and Presentations

Slides from a workshop covering basic metadata practices and principles for digital libraries, including a variety of metadata schemas, as well as considerations for writing shareable and user-friendly metadata.


Assigning Rights Statements To Legacy Digital Collections, Laura Capell, Elliot Williams Jun 2016

Assigning Rights Statements To Legacy Digital Collections, Laura Capell, Elliot Williams

Library Articles, Papers, and Presentations

This poster outlines a project at the University of Miami Libraries to evaluate the rights status of legacy materials that have been digitized for online access in the UM Digital Collections, including photographs, manuscripts, publications, and maps from the Libraries’ Cuban Heritage Collection, Special Collections, and University Archives. The majority of the Libraries’ digital collections contained little rights-related information in their metadata. Adding rights information will enable us to contribute our content to DPLA, and will also, we hope, empower our users to understand how they can use our digitized content, in traditional and nontraditional ways. This poster presents our …