Clark Family Repository screencast

This is a screencast video I made for metadata class!

 

And here is the handout:

Clark Family Collection, https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/CFPC/

UNT Libraries’ Digital Collections

Metadata Schema

UNTL – University of North Texas Libraries

• Locally qualified version of Dublin Core
• Can be converted on the fly to simple Dublin Core and MODS by the system

Input Guidelines for Descriptive Metadata – http://www.library.unt.edu/digital-projects-unit/input-guidelines-descriptive-metadata

Indexers

• Volunteers with no experience
• Student Employees
• Locally-trained students
• Locally-trained staff members
• Trained library professionals

Digitization of Black and White Photographs – Tiff, 600ppi, Grayscale 8-bit

Downloads of images (and their citations) are available in several different sizes and resolutions directly from the website.

The OAI-PMH repository makes available for each item record:

• raw UNTL metadata
• the OAI_DC (normalized Dublin Core) metadata
• RDF/XML (Resource Description Framework/eXtensible Markup Language) metadata

UNT designed their own software system, utilizing:

• Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
• Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
• Archival Resource Key (ARK) specification
• Django Web framework
• Python programming language
• Solr full-text indexer

Recommended reading:

Tarver, H., Zavalina, O., & Phillips, M. E. (2016, May). A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries’ Digital Collections [Paper]. Retrieved April 8, 2017, from https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849978/m2/

For more info see Clark Family Collection and Article Summary #4 – UNT Digital Collections