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Searching for unique subject headings in DPLA

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Elliot

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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I made a twitter bot!

Posted on July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 by Elliot

‘People taking a gondola ride along the Coral Gables Waterway. Coral Gables, Florida’ “Recognizing the importance of having a luxury resort hotel in the city, George Merrick turned to John McEntee Bowman, President o…’https://t.co/27MqoSFJtU — SSDNbot☀🌴🐊 (@SSDNbot) June 16, 2018 I love twitter bots. There are some really cool ones doing interesting things with cultural […]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged metadata, social media, technology 1 Comment

Export CONTENTdm Full Text field to .txt files

Posted on February 9, 2018February 12, 2018 by Elliot

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, […]

Posted in MetadataTagged command line, contentdm, excel, metadata 2 Comments

#archivalfeelings: metadata, history, connection

Posted on September 28, 2017June 11, 2018 by Elliot

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 […]

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Controlling all the names with OpenRefine

Posted on February 29, 2016December 28, 2017 by Elliot

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 […]

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Exploring RDA with RIMMF

Posted on December 12, 2014December 12, 2014 by Elliot

After reading about the Jane-athon that is happening at ALA Midwinter in a few months, I decided that I’d like to play around with RDA cataloging outside of the strictures of MARC.  I had a quiet afternoon at my library a few weeks ago, so I figured it was a good time to download the […]

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