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Matching Made In Heaven: Collections And Metadata Collaboration For Print Preservation, Alie Visser, Erin Johnson, Christina Zoricic
Matching Made In Heaven: Collections And Metadata Collaboration For Print Preservation, Alie Visser, Erin Johnson, Christina Zoricic
Western Libraries Publications
Following the trend of repurposing library space to meet modern user needs, Western University is undergoing a planned revitalization and renovation of its largest library on campus. As a result, 500,000 items will need to be shifted to other locations or off-site storage. In this session we will outline the impact of metadata work in shifting this large collection of material to a shared print preservation storage facility, in coordination with Western University’s Keep@Downsview partnership (https://downsviewkeep.org/). Keep@Downsview is a partnership of five universities to preserve the scholarly record in Ontario in a shared, high-density storage and preservation facility. We will …
Here Come The Bots: Six Tips When Designing Your Ir's Metadata For Improved Discoverability, Rachel S. Evans
Here Come The Bots: Six Tips When Designing Your Ir's Metadata For Improved Discoverability, Rachel S. Evans
Articles, Chapters and Online Publications
Rachel Evans draws from her experience as a web developer and a recent webinar on discoverability to compose a list of six tips for creating and maintaining strong metadata in digital repositories with SEO in mind. Each tip includes a personalized summary for why it is important, especially when Google bots crawl your site. The tips include a mix of best practices and common sense advice for rising to the top of search results.
TechScans is a blog to share the latest trends and technology tools for technical services law librarians. The official blog of the TS-SIS and OBS-SIS AALL …
Matching Made In Heaven: Collections And Metadata Collaboration For Print Preservation, Erin Johnson, Alie Visser, Christina Zoricic
Matching Made In Heaven: Collections And Metadata Collaboration For Print Preservation, Erin Johnson, Alie Visser, Christina Zoricic
Western Libraries Presentations
Following the trend of re-purposing library space to meet modern user needs, Western University is undergoing a planned revitalization and renovation of its largest library on campus. As a result, 500,000 items will need to be shifted to other locations or off-site storage. In this session we will outline the impact of metadata work in shifting this large collection of material to a shared print preservation storage facility, in coordination with Western University’s Keep@Downsview partnership (https://downsviewkeep.org/). Keep@Downsview is a partnership of five universities to preserve the scholarly record in Ontario in a shared, high-density storage and preservation facility. …
Gla Conference Review: Workshop On Digitization For Small Institutions, Rachel S. Evans
Gla Conference Review: Workshop On Digitization For Small Institutions, Rachel S. Evans
Articles, Chapters and Online Publications
Rachel Evans summarizes the recent Georgia Library Association (GLA) conference held in Macon, GA in October 2019. Specifically Evans reviews in detail a workshop on digitization for small institutions. The workshop and by extension the blog post review share valuable resources for project managers working on digitization in their libraries and within their digital repositories as well as information about metadata standards and best practices.
TechScans is a blog to share the latest trends and technology tools for technical services law librarians. The official blog of the TS-SIS and OBS-SIS AALL groups.
The Espy Project: From Paper Archives To Digital Scholarship, Mark Wolfe, Melissa Mcmullen, Amanda Partridge
The Espy Project: From Paper Archives To Digital Scholarship, Mark Wolfe, Melissa Mcmullen, Amanda Partridge
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
The M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives has digitized the most complete existing collection of execution records and is making them available for digital scholarship. M. Watt Espy spent his life documenting the death penalty in the United States. He created over 24,000 index cards and over 100,000 pages of reference material to document each case. The project connects this source material to a problematic 1980s-era execution dataset. We implemented Samvera’s open source digital repository software, Hyrax, which provides online access to all of the digitized materials. Hyrax allows users to query digital collections for online viewing or …
Open Parks Network: Partnering For Expanded Access, Dlf 2019, 7x, Joshua Morgan, Jamie Rogers
Open Parks Network: Partnering For Expanded Access, Dlf 2019, 7x, Joshua Morgan, Jamie Rogers
Presentations
The OPN has been a digitization and hosting program between the NPS and Clemson University since 2010. Our next goal is to unite NPS collections from other institutions to create a vast network of National Parks material under one cloud. Florida International University will be our first partner institution.
Mapping Metadata At A Public University, Blake Graham, Harriet Wintermute, Margaret Mering
Mapping Metadata At A Public University, Blake Graham, Harriet Wintermute, Margaret Mering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
This session explores the purpose of metadata application profiles (MAP), and how a team of practitioners at a public university developed a single MAP representing metadata elements and values from multiple repositories.
Download is a pdf file.
PowerPoint (.pptx) slides attached below.
The Rise Of Open Scholarly Data & Possible Implications For Libraries, Aaron Tay
The Rise Of Open Scholarly Data & Possible Implications For Libraries, Aaron Tay
Research Collection Library
The idea of open access is familiar and in recent years there has been a lot of attention paid on the open access movement. Currently due to the rise of the new open scholarly metadata, a lot can be obtained using open data. For instance Title / author / abstract metadata is available in Crossref, references are freely available via many sources such as Crossref itself, Microsoft Academic, Pubmed and Altmetrics data is available via the Crossref Event data. What are the implications for libraries and what is the arc of scholarly communication towards open?
Digital Collection Assessment And Use, Tammy Troup
Digital Collection Assessment And Use, Tammy Troup
Bucknell Open Educational Resources
The Digital Collection Assessment and Use learning module introduces the use of the Digital Public Library of America (dp.la) API to assess descriptive metadata practices from the perspective of subject specialists. Subject experts are encouraged to use this toolkit to consider how their expertise can be used to support access to knowledge.
The learning module is published in the #DLFteach Toolkit: Lesson Plans for Digital Library Instruction. The openly available, peer-reviewed collection of lesson plans and concrete instructional strategies is the result of a project led by the professional development and resource sharing subgroup. This publication emerged from …
Describing Historical Images: Improving Access To Digital Collections With Local Subjects, Jessica Serrao, Janice Prater, Scott Dutkiewicz, Charlotte Grubbs
Describing Historical Images: Improving Access To Digital Collections With Local Subjects, Jessica Serrao, Janice Prater, Scott Dutkiewicz, Charlotte Grubbs
Presentations
Libraries are at the forefront of creating rich quality metadata to ensure communities can access, learn, and understand their shared histories. The Metadata and Monographic Resources Team (MMRT) is tasked with describing and providing access points to Clemson Libraries’ Digital Collections. Metadata decisions made by MMRT affect how community members discover, access, and use these materials. Photographic images, in particular, pose challenges if they lack descriptive information or historical context. If descriptions are provided, they often align with the historically white male majority, naming high level individuals and leaving out minority and marginalized peoples.
This poster covers challenges and decisions …
Accessing Web Archives: Integrating An Archive-It Collection Into Ebsco Discovery Service, Christina A. Beis, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler
Accessing Web Archives: Integrating An Archive-It Collection Into Ebsco Discovery Service, Christina A. Beis, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler
Roesch Library Faculty Publications
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 …
Crowdsourcing Metadata Practices At Usu, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Randy Williams
Crowdsourcing Metadata Practices At Usu, Anna-Maria Arnljots, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen, Randy Williams
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
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Metadata: An Overview For Digital Collections, Marina Georgieva
Metadata: An Overview For Digital Collections, Marina Georgieva
Library Faculty Presentations
Overview of the metadata role in resource description, resource discovery and website faceting. The presentation discusses metadata consistency, granularity and types (descriptive, administrative and structural) with emphasis on technical and preservation metadata. The presentation introduces Dublin Core element set as well as other popular metadata schemas and their applications. The presentation also outlines the benefits of metadata reuse and the significant role of the Metadata application profile in structuring, normalizing, disambiguating and making metadata consistent and interoperable. Additionally, it points out the significance of using controlled vocabularies and their role in disambiguating words, synonym control and consistency across collections. Introduces …
Moving Toward Shared Local Authorities, Jessica Serrao
Moving Toward Shared Local Authorities, Jessica Serrao
Presentations
Clemson's digital collections team is exploring ways to improve the quality of our local authority metadata with an eye toward shareability. This lightning round will cover the steps taken so far to move toward controlled shareable local authorities, the collaborations necessary to accomplish this goal, and plans for the future.
Breaking Out Of The Box: Transforming Archival Collections And Workflows Through Collaborative Description Projects, Cindy Cline, Libby Hertenstein, Lindy Smith, Rachel Howard, Rebecca Pattillo, Ruth E. Bryan
Breaking Out Of The Box: Transforming Archival Collections And Workflows Through Collaborative Description Projects, Cindy Cline, Libby Hertenstein, Lindy Smith, Rachel Howard, Rebecca Pattillo, Ruth E. Bryan
Library Presentations
Archivists and archival collections can often be siloed into the “special” corner of their parent library: under described, underutilized, and often even unknown. Finding a path out of isolation may require taking a new look at collection management needs and considering new partners in the work. Collaboration with colleagues can result in positive ripple effects that extend beyond the initial project goals. This session will highlight three innovative description projects where archivists partnered with non-archivists to improve access to targeted collections and will detail how their collaborations transformed their archival collections, work structures and relationships, and, ultimately, their users. After …
Palm Leaf Manuscripts In South Asia, Emera Bridger Wilson, Jessica M. Rice
Palm Leaf Manuscripts In South Asia, Emera Bridger Wilson, Jessica M. Rice
School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship
Many thousands of palm leaf manuscripts, in South Asia and elsewhere, are currently in danger of being lost due to physical deterioration. These manuscripts contain irreplaceable cultural, religious, scientific, and artistic works. Palm leaf manuscripts, which can be centuries old, are found in numerous private collections, temples, monasteries, libraries and museums. The sheer number and wide dispersal of palm leaf manuscripts provide significant challenges to conservation and preservation, including both ethical and technical considerations. A literature search and examination of palm leaf manuscripts shed light on the urgent need to proceed worldwide along two fronts simultaneously: rapid digitization of critical …
Toward Inclusive Description: Reparations Through Community-Driven Metadata, Jillian M. Ewalt
Toward Inclusive Description: Reparations Through Community-Driven Metadata, Jillian M. Ewalt
Marian Library Faculty Publications
This case study covers the process and policies involved in creating accurate and inclusive metadata for a historically marginalized community. The Japanese American Digitization Project was a consortial, collaborative digitization project with the goal of unifying and providing online access to tens of thousands of archival materials documenting the Japanese American experience. Traditionally, the Japanese American experience, particularly the internment during World War II, has been laden with euphemistic language. This article outlines community-driven metadata development, implementing an inclusive controlled vocabulary, and thinking about archival metadata as a process that can contribute to reparations.
More Than A Pretty Interface: The Louisiana Digital Library As A Data Hub, Sl Ziegler
More Than A Pretty Interface: The Louisiana Digital Library As A Data Hub, Sl Ziegler
Faculty Publications
The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online platform for libraries, museums, archives, and historical organizations across the state. The books, manuscripts, oral histories, maps, and photographs held in the LDL showcase the cultural resources of Louisiana. The interface enables users to discover materials through search and browse, and to view and interact with these materials. The metadata about these items is also a great asset. When explored in their entirety, the data held in the LDL is as valuable as the digital facsimiles. The LDL may be conceptualized as a data hub, a place to gather and share the …
The Rise Of Open Scholarly Data And Possible Implications, Aaron Tay
The Rise Of Open Scholarly Data And Possible Implications, Aaron Tay
Research Collection Library
In this talk I cover the rise of open scholarly metadata thanks to efforts to create open infrastructure by non profits such as Crossref, Datacite, ROR as well as efforts from organizations such as JISC CORE, Opencitations, I4OC (Initative for open citations) to harvest and extract scholarly data. I talk about how libraries have benefited from all this data (most of which is available via APIs) and how Lens.org has brought most of this data together to create a compelling open service.
Wisdom Of The Crowd: Successful Ways To Engage The Public In Metadata Creation, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen
Wisdom Of The Crowd: Successful Ways To Engage The Public In Metadata Creation, Andrea Payant, Becky Skeen
Library Faculty & Staff Presentations
Successful Ways to Engage the Public in Metadata Creation: Crowdsourcing, outsourcing, interviews, and community events.
Clemson University Digital Projects Workflow And Repositories, Joshua Morgan, Jessica Serrao
Clemson University Digital Projects Workflow And Repositories, Joshua Morgan, Jessica Serrao
Presentations
Overview of workflow for digital projects at Clemson University Libraries between SCDL, National Park Service, Clemson University and our Digitization, Metadata, and Special Collections teams. Explanation of difference between Clemson Digital Collections, TigerPrints IR, and the Open Parks Network. In-person presentation included a walk-through of the different repositories, which is not included in the digital presentation.
See notes field of Powerpoint for explanations.
Clemson Digital Initiatives, Digitization Authority Metro, Joshua Morgan, Rachel Wittmann, Jessica Serrao
Clemson Digital Initiatives, Digitization Authority Metro, Joshua Morgan, Rachel Wittmann, Jessica Serrao
Presentations
Workflow of Clemson University Libraries' digital projects team. Follow the trail of materials from partner/holding institution to scanning, metadata, and hosting.
Benchmarking Vended Authority Control Practices In Arl Libraries (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge, Nancy Poehlmann
Benchmarking Vended Authority Control Practices In Arl Libraries (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge, Nancy Poehlmann
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
This presentation shares the results of a survey of ARL libraries on the use of vended authority control at their institutions.
Who Asked You? Consent, Self-Determination, And The Report Of The Pcc Ad Hoc Task Group On Gender In Name Authority Records, K. Adolpho
VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
This book chapter discusses the Program for Cooperative Cataloging Ad Hoc Task Group on Gender in Name Authority Records report of recommendations on recording gender in name authority records. The author argues that, although the work of the Task Group is a well-intentioned attempt to mitigate trans-exclusion in RDA 9.7, their overall report and proposed best practices are rooted in Western-centric, cisnormative understandings of gender that deny gender diverse people both agency over their own identities and decision-making power over the frameworks that seek to include them.
Metadata For Diversity: Identification And Implications Of Potential Access Points For Diverse Library Resources, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker
Metadata For Diversity: Identification And Implications Of Potential Access Points For Diverse Library Resources, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate what metadata elements for access points currently exist to represent diverse library reading materials, either in libraries or from external sources, as well as what metadata elements for access points are currently not present but are necessary to represent diverse library reading materials.
Design/methodology/approach A field scan of thirteen contemporary metadata schemas identified elements that might serve as potential access points regarding the diversity status of resource creators as well as topical or thematic content. Elements were semantically mapped using a metadata crosswalk to understand the intellectual and conceptual space of …
Creating A Sustainable Workflow For Converting Online Finding Aids Into Marc Records, Ann Kardos
Creating A Sustainable Workflow For Converting Online Finding Aids Into Marc Records, Ann Kardos
University Libraries Presentations Series
Data regarding library collections exists in many locations. While this often works for those researchers who know what they're looking for, one institution created a plan to convert online finding aids into MARC records for the discovery layer. The project makes additional avenues to discover unique collections but also gives opportunities to create Library of Congress name authority records for distinct entities or hidden individuals and groups. This project became a model for standardization of this work across the consortium, and brought together stakeholders from metadata, special collections, archives, digital collections and library IT.