Adventures in metadata hygiene: using Open Refine, XSLT, and Excel to dedup...
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...
View ArticleMARCXML to VRA Core 4 Transformation
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...
View ArticleMetadata Workflow Resources For FSU University Libraries
Metadata Workflow Resources For FSU University Libraries These are tools developed my the Metadata Librarian at Florida State University, University Libraries. They are intended to ease the creation of...
View ArticleAutomated reuse of finding aid metadata for the Knowledge Bank
In order to take advantage of our routine batch loading process, the finding aid metadata workflow transforms the EAD metadata from the finding aid and outputs it into a .csv file for use with the...
View ArticleThe Fancy Finding Aid: Makeover your Collections with HTML5, Responsive...
By Allison Jai O’Dell and Steven Duckworth From Code4Lib 2016 Do your finding aids look a bit … dated? Perhaps you wrote that EAD-to-HTML XSLT a decade ago? Take advantage of contemporary development...
View ArticleBatch Linking Digital Content into EAD Finding Aids
by Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library These procedures outline the steps for linking digital collections to archival collections marked up in EAD, focusing on items scanned at the item...
View ArticleSpreadsheets To Encoded Archival Description
Spreadsheets To Encoded Archival Description. Turns CSV files of container lists into a stub EAD XML record. https://github.com/jronallo/stead
View ArticleAutomated reuse of finding aid metadata for the Knowledge Bank
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...
View ArticleXQuery for Archivists: Understanding EAD Finding Aids as Data
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...
View ArticleVisualizing Government Archives through Linked Data
By Conal Tuohy “Visualizing Government Archives through Linked Data” blog post (includes links to source code) about an automated gateway which harvests from an OAI-PMH repository, transforms the...
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