The goal of this document is to provide consistent and easy-to-apply guidance for staff of the Hamilton College Library who are involved in creating digital objects from non-digital original materials. Sections: Selection Planning Curation Digitization Metadata Text Encoding Ingest Metadata […]
In preparation for upcoming changes to the display of digital objects in DIMES, I’ve been pursuing some enhancements to data export from ArchivesSpace. This began with a plugin to improve METS exports, including embedded MODS records, but then grew into […]
Blog post written by Noah Huffman, Duke University Libraries At Duke, we’ve been creating finding aids in EAD (Encoded Archival Description) since the late 1990s. Prior to implementing ArchivesSpace (June 2015) and its predecessor Archivists Toolkit (2012), we created EAD […]
Blog post by Noah Huffman, Duke University Libraries As part of a recent project to migrate data from EAD (Encoded Archival Description) toArchivesSpace, I needed to clean up about 27,000 name and subject headings spread across over 2,000 EAD records […]
There are a lot of reasons to turn a spreadsheet into a finding aid. Maybe your donor sent you an inventory of a new accession in Excel, and you want to modify and re-use that data. Maybe you’ve determined that […]
These instructions will outline the basic steps for uploading metadata and digital files to Omeka, individually, in batches, and via an OAI harvest.Omeka Metadata Uploading Guidelines
The Bentley Historical Library’s ArchivesSpace-Archivematica-DSpace Workflow Integration project seeks to improve the creation and reuse of metadata among systems and streamline the ingest and deposit of content in preservation repositories. Read our inaugural post for more information on the project! […]
The pose slide and artwork collections were batch loaded into the Knowledge Bank (a DSpace repository). Our routine process for batch loading involves creating a spreadsheet (.csv) containing the metadata and filename for each item. A stand-alone Java tool (SAFBuilder) […]
Spreadsheets To Encoded Archival Description. Turns CSV files of container lists into a stub EAD XML record. https://github.com/jronallo/stead
This repository is aimed at establishing and maintaining a shared space of stylesheets created by the community of EAD implementers. Your stylesheets can be complete, proof-of-concept, started-but-not-quite-finished, under development, etc. This resource is maintained by the EAD Roundtable of the […]