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Metadata for Archival Collections


Digital archiving: the seven pillars of metadata

We also see this as an intrinsically archival approach to thinking about metadata ... collections (i.e. where historical records come from and who ...

Introduction to Metadata: Setting the Stage - Getty Museum

Archival and manuscript metadata includes the products of value-added archival description such as finding aids, catalog records, and indexes. However, it also ...

Metadata for Archival Collections: Challenges and Opportunities

The Four Metadata Types · Administrative metadata captures the context necessary to understand information resources. · Descriptive metadata ...

Archival Metadata | DCC - Digital Curation Centre

Archivists and records managers have always been metadata experts. Archivists create finding aids, file lists, inventories, registers, catalog records, ...

Metadata Creation/Archival Description - York University Pressbooks

Metadata is “data about data.” They are pieces of information like location, date, time, format, and source, which allows digital items, such as photographs and ...

Resources for Digital Humanities: Metadata and Collections Data

The data about objects kept by collecting institutions—libraries, museums, and archives—may include information including provenance ...

Digitizing Collections: Metadata Schema - Atla LibGuides

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is an XML standard for encoding archival finding aids, maintained by the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded ...

Metadata Overview for Archivists

In this class, you'll learn about the basics of descriptive, technical, structural, and administrative metadata.

The Metadata is the Interface: Better Description for Better Discovery ...

7 Librarians and archivists need to manage archival collections by provenance, but also must describe what is in the collections for their users. This essay— ...

Guide to Cataloging Your Images | Visual Resources Center

Metadata schemas provide the structure or fields for entering data. Many museums, libraries, archives, and digital collections rely on national standards for ...

Tips for Archival Metadata Standards Collaboration - LinkedIn

Metadata should be detailed yet flexible to accommodate diverse collections, with clear documentation to support future updates. Collaborative ...

Metadata for archival collections - Hanging Together

OCLC Research Library Partners use a variety of standards to describe archival collections: Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS), Encoded Archival ...

Archival Research: How to Use Metadata and Finding Aids - LinkedIn

Archival finding aids are documents that provide detailed information about a specific archival collection, such as its scope, history, ...

Conscious Editing-Driven Metadata for Archives and Digital ...

Conscious editing as a guiding framework that, over the course of four years, evolved into a multi-departmental effort aimed at the strategic goal of ...

Step 4: Planning for metadata collection | Archiving for the Future

Metadata, which is commonly described as data about data, is the information about your materials and files that helps to make them easier to organize, find, ...

Using Metadata as Data for Enhanced Discovery and Access of ...

Using Metadata as Data for Enhanced Discovery and Access of Digital Archival Collections ... Archivists and librarians dedicate a significant amount of time and ...

Coming Together: How Metadata Creates Communication between ...

In the world of archives and libraries, there is one mystical thing that binds everything together – metadata. Metadata comes in various forms: ...

Standards | Librarians and Archivists - Library of Congress

Data dictionary and supporting XML schemas for core preservation metadata needed to support the long-term preservation of digital materials. TextMD (Technical ...

Archival meta-metadata: revision history and positionality of finding ...

Second, finding aids occasionally call for revision, sometimes to fit a new data standard or reflect an evolving collection, but also to correct ...

Inclusive Metadata Practices for Digital Collections - LibGuides

Archives in Context spoke with A4BLiP's Anti-Racist Description Working Group members Alexis A. Antracoli, Annalise Berdini, Faith Charlton, ...