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Improving Access To Special Collections By Automating Descriptive Metadata Creation, Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour, Betsey Welland, Jessica Breiman

Faculty Publications

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Background information about Special Collections and Digital Library Services

Overview of ways we are processing data:

• Extracting data from finding aids for item level description in digital collections
• Extracting and Analyzing Names/Subjects in EAD
• EAD to MARC record transform through MARCEdit
• Techniques for working with legacy data

Metadata Managed: How To Clean Data That Is Up To No Good., Jeremy Myntti, Anna Neatrour

Faculty Publications

Metadata Problems

• Size of collections –Close to 300 collections, over 2 million items.
• Age of collections – started digitizing in 2000
• Inconsistent training
• Variety of collections means different conventions used for collections from:
• Internal
• external
• Campus Partners