by the University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MarcEdit’s linked data tool is somewhat experimental, but it allows users to automatically generate links to resolve access points from the LC or OCLC VIAF authority records. Using this […]
by Yale University Libraries The Yale University Library catalog (ORBIS) contains nearly 7 million bibliographic records and over 2 million authority records. These authority records help staff maintain consistent headings in the catalog. They also generate cross references that facilitate […]
by Ruth Tillman When developing local collections, librarians and archivists often create detailed metadata which then gets stored in collection-specific silos. At times, the metadata could be used to augment other collections but the software does not provide native support […]
Authority control in a library environment is the establishment and maintenance of consistent forms of names and terms to be used as authorized access points in records of the library catalog. Authorized access points must not only be consistent, each […]
The Yale University Library catalog (ORBIS) contains nearly 7 million bibliographic records and over 2 million authority records. These authority records help staff maintain consistent headings in the catalog. They also generate cross references that facilitate searching. The Library creates […]
By Lynn Whittenberger, Metadata Librarian, Raynor Memorial Library, Marquette University Abstract: Describes the steps taken to extract Author/Corporate names from our local catalog (III-Sierra), the initial data cleanup work done in Microsoft Excel, and the final data cleanup work and […]
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 […]
I’m working currently on migrating a lot of our non-MARC metadata collections from older platforms using a kind of simple Dublin Core to MODS/XML (version 3.5, we’re currently looking at 3.6) that will be ingested into Islandora. That ‘kind of […]