by William Underwood, Sandra Laib, and Sheila Isbell, Georgia Tech Research Laboratory, Georgia Institution of Technology A method for automatic document type recognition and metadata extraction has been implemented and successfully tested. The method is based on the method […]
Goals: 1. Develop a systematic approach to digital preservation (DP) of born-digital collections. 2. Gain experience with various DP hardware and software and figure out practical protocols —how does this all stuff work? 3. Use a real-life example, the electronic […]
As we are working on developing our digital archives capacities we have been testing, evaluating, and trying out processes for managing digital archival material. Towards this end we have documented and created templates for acquisition, submission and archival processing tasks. […]
Digital Archives Accessioning Manual, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies University of Georgia Note: contact the digital archivist, Adriane Hanson (ahanson@uga.edu) with questions or to get copiesof templates that are not included in the manual. You are […]
ArchivesSpace plugin to determine the next collection number in a sequence This plugin takes as input a range of collections (selected from the drop-down list), pulls all of the Resource JSON objects from the database, isolates only those collections whose […]
In this post, I’ll talk about micro-services, and the archival workflow at CUNY Television. I’ll also talk about the work I’ve done to modify and document the micro-services, and my impressions about working with code thus far. http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/media-miscro-services-and-archival-workflows-at-cuny-television/
EADMachine is an easy EAD creation and editing tool. It uses a speadsheet template to enter data and automatically converts between spreadsheet and valid EAD, matching either a default template or a local EAD file. EADMachine also automatically creates a […]
LXML is an awesome python tool for reading and editing xml files, and we’ve been using it extensively during the grant period to do programmatic cleanup to our legacy EAD files. To give an example of just how powerful the […]
XQuery is a simple, yet powerful, scripting language designed to enable users without formal programming training to extract, transform, and manipulate XML data. Moreover, the language is an accepted standard and a W3C recommendation much like its sister standards, XML […]
by Liz Woolcott These instructions will outline the basic steps for creating exhibits in Omeka using the Exhibit Builder plugin. Omeka Exhibit Building Tutorial