Catmandu provides a suite of Perl modules to ease the import, storage, retrieval, export and transformation of metadata records. Combine Catmandu modules with web application frameworks such as PSGI/Plack, document stores such as MongoDB and full text indexes as Solr […]
by Jen Young, Northwestern University This XSLT was used to transform MARCXML files for our instance of a Voyager database of digitized images into VRA Core 4 XML files for ingest into our Images Repository. Our image database had […]
Semantic metadata enrichment and digital libraries from Europeana http://www.slideshare.net/ValentineCharles/evaluation-of-metadata-enrichment-practices-in-digital-librariessteps-towards-better-data-enrichments
This tool consumes the clusters exported by OpenRefine and aims to provide an easy interface for stakeholders to participate in the process of deciding what the “canonical” representation of a data value should be. See the demo at: http://amiaopensource.github.io/TIDY A […]
XML is a widely used format for information serialization, transfer, and processing. Unfortunately, because of its document-centric nature, XML is unnecessarily inconvenient to work with in contexts where content consists of multiple independent records, and where streaming and/or fault-tolerant processing […]
Knowledge Bank featured collection this month is the Jesse Owens Photographs collection. The collection currently contains 141 images – a sampling of the more than two thousand photographs from the life of Jesse Owens held at The Ohio State University […]
by Sheet Music Consortium hosted by Indiana University The Metadata Mapping Tool can be used to generate and validate metadata from a source file of data about a sheet music collection. This tool can also be used to validate […]
by Christina Harlow This Repository just covers the ‘Enhancing Metadata with Geospatial Data’ workshop portion: see the link to the full workshop schedule and documentation here:http://bit.ly/DLF15geowkshop DLF Forum 2015 Purposes for this portion/intro to scope shift Getting items in previously […]
The other really significant advancement has reduced my workload significantly with respect to batch publication of new concepts (as RDF) into Nomisma. I would occasionally receive spreadsheets of data to upload into Nomisma, which required me to author a PHP […]
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 […]