"data about data" - digital factual information which describes the contents and context of a specific item
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Linking folksonomic tags to authority controlled metadata?
I have four layers of metadata:
Authority controlled catalog records
Vocabulary controlled but user input data (e.g. "select from this list")
Uncontrolled user input data (e.g. author supplied ...
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Using holdings data to understand content of library collections in the past
There are a couple pieces to this question. Is it standard practice to capture in MARC data about when a library acquired an item in its collections. My sense is that it's not, except maybe for ...
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Where to find previous titles of serials?
Part of the challenge of cataloguing serials is that these publications change their titles not infrequently (in both major and minor ways). I know that MARC has fields for varying forms of titles and ...
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Migrating a repository content to a different platform
I'm working on a project where we will be migrating data from an ePrints repository to a Fedora-based repository. Has anyone ever done something like this? I can get a batch export of EP3 XML but am ...
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Does MODS provide a way of recording missing information?
In many MODS records harvested from several sources, I see <mods:publisher>s.n.</mods:publisher> or something similar (worst I have seen: 000NOPUBLISHER000) to indicate the publisher is ...
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What examples are there of digitization projects using OMR?
Optical Music Recognition is a like OCR but for recognizing musical notation. Are there any libraries using this as part of digitization projects? It strikes me that this could provide incredibly ...
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Excel-only toolkit for creating XML data?
I'd like to use Excel to programmatically create XML data files to several known XSD schemas; or more specifically, a small profile of each schema.
Are there any sets of macros/procedural ways of ...
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How to detect invalid permutations of MARC fields, subfield, and indicator
I'm working on a web app that allows users to run checks on each MARC record in a MARC batch file, so they can quickly assess the quality of those records. The idea is when batches of records are ...
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Recording of conservation activities
[Question changed according to Jakob's suggestions]
Archival systems as www.axiell.co.uk/calm offer the possibility of recording conservation activities through one of their modules. How widespread ...
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METS serialization with Digital Object versioning
I'm looking for a solution to get a version identifier in a METS representation of a Digital Object. I could not find anything related to versioning in the METS schema.
Naively i thought something ...
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Are there any nice examples of Libraries/Archives using Natural Language Processing to generate descriptive metadata from full text content?
I would be curious to see examples of NLP techniques (in particular, Named entity recognition, Relationship extraction and Topic modeling) applied to generate descriptive metadata and any thoughts on ...
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Why doesn't Zotero import the language field from an article COinS?
The language field (rft.language) is defined in The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive.
If it is why Zotero could not retrieve language from COinS-based site that specify it with that field? To ...
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Applications to browse MARC (maybe with statistics)?
I am looking for apps to view and browse MARC records. I'm a programmer so I usually interact with MARC via marc4j or pymarc and the like. But sometimes, I'd like to have a GUI, which could show me ...
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How to encode fake “found text” metadata in TEI P5?
A "found text" (for this purpose) is one in which the publisher is printing something not written for publication—at least, not in the present manner—but rather a text or set of texts written in some ...
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Good Encoded Archival Description (EAD) books, tutorials, boilerplate?
I'm a beginner when it comes to EAD (had a metadata design studio class in grad school where we modelled EAD in SKOS/XML), but I'm looking at starting the archivist certification process and I'm ...
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Why hasn't the library community settled on using hashes as unique universal ids for digital content?
It seemed to me that the ability to compute something like an MD5 hash has amazing potential as a unique identifier system for digital content. Anyone can generate and publish them, and they are more ...
