I’ve been thinking about subject headings a lot lately (as one does), and it inspired me to return to some work that I had started doing while I was at TDL, thinking about subject heading uniqueness in DPLA. One of the things that I’ve noticed in my own metadata work, and that was confirmed for […]
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Export CONTENTdm Full Text field to .txt files
This week, we had a case at my library where we wanted to extract the full-text field for a few of our digital collections and save it as a separate text file for each image. Normally, we create text files for images by running OCR on them outside of CONTENTdm. But for a few collections, […]
#archivalfeelings: metadata, history, connection
Earlier this summer, I had an experience where a collection that I was creating metadata for had a really strong emotional impact on me. It felt really significant, and made me think about the ways that I relate to collections that I work with. I tweeted about the experience at the time, and I’ve collected […]
Controlling all the names with OpenRefine
I’m trying to get better at writing out the process for things that I do in my day-to-day metadata work. Mostly, I want to do this for my own personal use – to help me think through my processes more clearly, and to have something to refer back to the next time I want to […]