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Getting started on Semester 3 Project: This week I had an orientation for Digital Library Services (DLS) to learn about their procedures and expectations, and got a chance to meet the staff. After that, Anne Shelley, my mentor for the semester, provided me with some materials to familiarize myself with the process of creating a digital collection of historical documents. Anne and I met and discussed the project plan and schedule and she introduced me to Janet Weaver, the assistant curator at the Iowa Women's Archives (IWA). Janet was able to pull a few boxes from the Iowa Rural Women's collection and I began browsing through them. What I've found out about the project so far is that I will be building a digital collection from the ground up around the Iowa Rural Women's collection. So first I will plan the project and decide how much I want to digitize, I will choose which archives to focus on (right now, the idea [Karen and Janet's] for a theme is to pick archives pertaining to all the different regions of the state and create a map interface), and I will begin scanning the documents. After that, I wil load the scans into ContentDM, add metadata, design an interface, and launch the collection. There will be a chance to work not only with text and images, but also with audio oral histories. So far I've looked through the following archives: Freedom Township Women's Club Lela Powers Briggs Melba Gardemann Olson Gwendolyn Johnson Hein
Resources recommended by Anne: Reformatting 1. Moving Theory Into Practice (Cornell): http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html 2. CDP Audio Best Practices: http://www.bcr.org/cdp/best/digital-audio-bp.pdf 3. NINCH guide to good practice (audio): http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/VII/ Metadata 1. Introduction: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/setting.html 2. Dublin Core: http://dublincore.org/ 3. CDP Dublin Core Best Practices:http://www.bcr.org/cdp/best/dublin-core-bp.pdf4. LC Authorities: http://authorities.loc.gov/5. Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/ Software 1. CONTENTdm help site map: http://www.contentdm.com/help4/sitemap.html
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