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Utah State University - University Libraries Metadata Application Profile For Contentdm Digital Collections, Version 2.0, Andrea Payant, Melanie Shaw, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Liz Woolcott
Utah State University - University Libraries Metadata Application Profile For Contentdm Digital Collections, Version 2.0, Andrea Payant, Melanie Shaw, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Liz Woolcott
Library Faculty & Staff Publications
The Utah State University Libraries Digital Collections Application Profile outlines the metadata fields, mappings, definitions, and resources used to assign metadata for digital collections in the USU CONTENTdm repository. Utah State University is a collection partner of the Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL). Therefore, this profile pulls substantially from the MWDL application profile 3.0, which is available at this URL: https://github.com/mountainwestdl/mwdl-map/wiki/MWDL-Metadata-Application-Profile
Beyond Crowdsourcing: Working With Donors, Student Fieldworkers, And Community Scholars To Improve Cultural Heritage Collection Metadata, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Randy Williams
Beyond Crowdsourcing: Working With Donors, Student Fieldworkers, And Community Scholars To Improve Cultural Heritage Collection Metadata, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Randy Williams
Library Faculty & Staff Publications
Utah State University Libraries (USU) employs community-based crowdsourcing metadata practices that provide in-depth, collaborative strategies that go beyond more commonly used collecting methods. Improved metadata quality is a result of working closely with donors, community scholars, students, and the public to describe cultural heritage collections fairly and thoroughly. This article provides an overview of successful ways to collaborate with those outside of traditional library units to create more diverse, equitable and inclusive descriptions of archival resources.