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- Community Service Society (with Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Project duration: 2011-2013
Metadata work included consultations, creations of data dictionary, MODS mapping, metadata creation for 1354 images, QC, authority work (44 new, 8 updates), and OCR correction
- Timing:
"I “I would say that for an image without any OCR it does not take more than a minute to fill in the Borough and any topic subjects/subject names (which for the majority of the images is all that I am dealing with). If I have to look up authorities or research anything in the image, it could take a little longer. For the images with OCR, it takes at least 5 minutes and has taken up to 10 depending on how long the passage that needs to be corrected is." ” (student worker's worker’s estimate)
- Durst Project (with Avery)
Project duration: 2012-
Metadata work includes: Consultations, legacy data analysis, data dictionaries, creation of test records, etc.
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- Kaltura: Long-term and considerable development of cross-campus and CUL-specific implementations
- ARTstor SharedShelf: The hours spent working and consulting with ARTstor on both the SharedShelf 'simple cataloging' ‘simple cataloging’ tool development and guiding the development of the VRA Core complex cataloging interface is considerable and inestimable.
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Consultations
The metadata librarians at Cornell have a wide-range of consultations from single emails or phone calls, to long-term consultations with faculty, library staff and non-Cornell entities. The range of consultation-types makes it challenging to quantify and consistent statistics have not been captured in this realm.
A&S Internal Grants: http://dcaps.library.cornell.edu/initiatives/asgrants/awards
This work occurs with colleagues in DCAPS (http://dcaps.library.cornell.edu/) to consult on the feasibility of projects prior to writing the application, composing budgets and attending the A&S faculty board advisory committee meeting to provide background and field questions about the applications. During the grant term, the Metadata Librarian for Humanities and Special Collections consults on metadata issues, set-up projects in the content management system, provide metadata guidelines, train metadata capturers and perform post-capture metadata review and clean-up. Generally, this work includes significant contact with faculty members. Some projects are very large while others are relatively small; further, projects usually extend beyond the grant-term.
2010-2011: 5 projects
2011-2012: 6 projects
2012-2013: 11 projects
2013-2014: 13 applications; winners to be publicly announced in late Summer 2013.
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Web Archiving
Crawling is performed by the Metadata Librarian for Humanities & Special Collections, workflow for cataloging in Dublin Core is being investigated by the Administrative Supervisor for Original Cataloging. The web archiving pilot captures sites in four areas, the majority of sites have not yet been identified:
1. University Archives, including sites not on the cornell.edu domain (approximately 300 sites)
2. Special Collections, including sites of organizations Cornell collects (approximately 100 sites)
3. Digital Art for teaching (approximately 150-200 sites)
4. Topic general collections: currently beginning to capture sites related to Hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale (approximately 200 sites)
Upcoming Need
It is likely that we will be involved with a conversion of our digital collection metadata to RDF triples, potentially including but not limited to records from:
DLXS: http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/
LUNA*: http://library24.library.cornell.edu (except for collections mimicked in SharedShelf)
Kaltura: https://media.library.cornell.edu/
SharedShelf*: http://www.sscommons.org/ (Collections> anything beginning with "Cornell“Cornell:"”)
Mann Locale: http://locale.mannlib.cornell.edu/
Archive-it: http://www.archive-it.org/organizations/529
eCommons: http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/
DigitalCommons@ILR: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/
Scholarship@Cornell Law: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/
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