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Work Smarter, Not Harder, Amy Jo Hunsaker Jun 2014

Work Smarter, Not Harder, Amy Jo Hunsaker

Library Faculty Presentations

Academic institutions’ digital collections often face the challenging issue of not having enough professionals to create metadata for the thousands of digital objects that exist in their collections. Anybody can scan, but not everyone is cut out for metadata creation. However, universities abound with intellectual and energetic pre-professionals, a.k.a. students. Instead of assigning student workers and volunteers to perform purely menial tasks, why not tap into their ability to learn and train them to do more “professional” jobs, such as metadata creation and website maintenance? With an entire campus filled with students eager to gain experience and willing to study, …


Metadata And The Technical Services Librarian, Katherine Rankin Oct 2005

Metadata And The Technical Services Librarian, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Presentations

Introduction

- Early Las Vegas Digital Project

- Background on project

- Version 1—Used MARC Records

- Version 2—Used Dublin Core in Contentdm software