Name and Subject Heading Reconciliation to Linked Open Data Authorities using Virtual International Authority File and Library of Congress Linked Data Service APIs: A Case Study featuring Emblematica Online by Tang (Cindy) Tian, Timothy W. Cole, and Karen Yu Libraries […]
(Meta)data Analyasis for DEI by Brian Clark and Catherine Smith Presentation GitHub repository core-forum-records.mrc → Sample of MARC records used in demonstration marc.py → Python script to extract data from MARC records demo.R → R script for cleaning, editing, and […]
EADoodler By Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive This script uses lxml to generate a representation of an EAD XML document that you can do different stuff with. The basic EAD class handles the namespace junk that EAD includes […]
Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Committee has been charged with helping us identify and prioritize concrete actions in support of DEIA in the information community. This series of three webinars — open to everyone, free of charge — […]
By Martin Poulter We have a list of names of things, plus some idea of what type of things they are, and we want to integrate them into a database. I have been working on place names in Chinese, but […]
indigenous LC Wikidata project By Noah Geraci These are scripts used in a project to reconcile Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) terms that name indigenous peoples of North America with Wikidata items. The file generated by make_wikidata_csv.py was used […]
Batch Download LCSH Files By Elliot D. Williams A process to batch download Library of Congress Subject Heading files using curl with details of analysis in OpenRefine. http://www.elliotdwilliams.com/batch-download-lcsh-files/
Climbing Metadata By Tallie Casucci and Rachel Wittmann This website aims to provide guidance and help metadata practitioners accurately identify and describe materials that contain rock climbing or similar sports. The goal of this guide is to encourage improved metadata […]
As part of the LDL as Data Grant, the project team is thrilled to announce an online speaker series. The series features digital library practitioners and users from across the country. The schedule is a work in progress and will […]
Curationist: Designing a Metadata Standard and Taxonomy for an Open Cultural Ecosystem by Sharon Mizota This presentation describes the metadata schema, content standard, and taxonomy guidelines created for Curationist.org, a crowd-sourced, multilingual aggregator of open access cultural content. Designed to […]