Automating controlled vocabulary reconciliation

presentationPresentation given at the Digital Library Federation Forum, Vancouver, Canada

Western Name Authority File: Improving Access for Digital Collections and Archives

presentationPresentation given at the second annual Utah Symposium on Digital Humanities, Salt Lake City, UT

Western Name Authority File: A Pilot Regional Name Authority Project

journal articleThe prospect of authority control in digital libraries creates unique challenges. Digital library systems and software often do not support integrated authority control, which can create issues in consistency for personal and corporate names representation in descriptive metadata. Standard practice for library metadata is to use existing controlled vocabularies such as the Library of Congress Name Authority File, but what can be done if the personal names and corporate bodies in local or regional digital collections are not represented in the Library of Congress? As digital collection managers look towards providing metadata for regional and statewide shared repository systems and national digital collection aggregators like the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), issues in digital collection authority control are magnified. This article explores the process in creating a shared regional authority file of personal names and corporate bodies existing in digital collection metadata records in several institutions throughout the Western United States. Steps in the process included reviewing data models, metadata collection, metadata deduplication and wrangling, vocabulary reconciliation, and data enhancement. Details on the process in making the Western Name Authority File accessible to the public and assessing project outcomes are included

The SIMP Tool: Facilitating Digital Library, Metadata, and Preservation Workflow at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library

Journal ArticleThis article presents a case study of the Submission Information Metadata Packaging (SIMP) tool developed at the University of; Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library. The Library designed this platform-independent tool to facilitate the deposit of descriptive; metadata and derivative formats into CONTENTdm, the Library's current digital asset management system. It also supports the; submission of technical metadata and archival content into the Ex Libris Rosetta digital preservation system. The Marriott Library; deliberately developed the SIMP tool to accommodate multiple workflows and ingestion processes in a modular fashion, which; allows the Library to easily modify the tool to extend its functionality to other digital asset management and preservation; systems or enterprise repositories

Supercharged Digital Collections: Moving to the fast lane with scalable open source infrastructure

presentationPresentation given at the Utah Library Association Conference, Sandy, UT

A Clean Sweep: The Tools and Processes of a Successful Metadata Migration

pre-printIn 2016, the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library migrated digital asset management systems from CONTENTdm, a vendor provided solution from OCLC, to Solphal, a homegrown system utilizing several open source tools. During the migration, issues with metadata led to a large-scale metadata cleanup and standardization project, enhancing discovery in our new system. This article discusses the method used to determine which system would best meet our needs, methods for metadata migration, issues observed during migration, metadata management capabilities of the new system, and future plans for post-migration metadata cleanup and remediation to ensure that our metadata is consistent with best practices

Western Name Authority File: Building shared authorities for regional digital collections

presentationPresentation given at the IMLS Local Shareable Authorities Forum, Washington D.C

Western name authority file: An open data approach to digital collections authority control

presentationA presentation conducted at the NISO Open Data Virtual Conference in 2018

Automating the production of map interfaces for digital collections using Google API's

Journal ArticleMany digital Libraries are interested in taking advantage of the GIS mapping capabilities provided by GoogLe Maps and GoogLe Earth. The DigitaL Ventures Division of the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library has successfully completed an innovative automated process in which descriptive metadata in the form of pLace names was used to determine Latitude and Longitude coordinates for digitaL collection items. By enhancing digitaL collection metadata in this fashion, hundreds of records were updated without data entry from project staff. This article wiLL provide an overview of using the GoogLe application programming interface (API) to return geographic coordinate data, the scripting process with XML digitaL collection data, and the use of online tooLs and Microsoft Excel to upLoad digitaL collection data to GoogLe Earth and Google Maps. The ability to automate metadata changes opens up a variety of possibilities for digitaL Library administrators and collection managers

Western Name Authority File: Creating a Collaborative Regional Vocabulary

presentationPresentation given at DPLAFest, Chicago, IL