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Outdoor Advertising Images in the ROAD 2.0 Project

On March 1, 2010 By

[Note: This is a guest post from Rita Johnston, Project Digitization Assistant for the NHPRC-funded ROAD 2.0 project. Thanks, Rita!]

ROAD 2.0 (Resource of Outdoor Advertising Descriptions) is a project to digitize images of billboards described in the ROAD database and match them with existing metadata. What I find interesting about the collection as [...]

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First Wednesday Jan 7 – A Metadata Tool Project

On January 6, 2009 By

Slides for my First Wednesday presentation tomorrow on the metadata tool project, including the exciting new project “code name” (which has been determined, pending a better idea) …

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American Song Sheets

On December 19, 2008 By

American Song Sheets, another new digital collection we published in October, includes approximately 1,800 broadsides and song sheets from nineteenth-century America. For this collection, we provide the song sheet images, as well as the searchable full text of the song lyrics. Will processed the full text to generate a collection-level “ Continue Reading →

Why digital collections aren’t just a big pile of stuff

On October 17, 2008 By

Continuing the introductions … I’m Rich Murray, and I’m the Metadata Librarian in the Digital Collections Program. I’m based in the Cataloging & Metadata Services Department, and I work with Noah Huffman, the Archivist for Metadata & Encoding in the Rare Book, Manuscript, & Special Collections Library, to plan and create metadata for [...]

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A metadata tool that scales

On October 10, 2008 By

In January of 2007 I sent a post to the Web4lib list titled “Metadata tools that scale.” At Duke we were seeking opinions about a software platform to capture metadata for digital collections and finding databases.  The responses to that inquiry suggested that what we were looking for didn’t exist.

About a year ago, [...]

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Megadata, an Introduction

On October 9, 2008 By

I’m Will Sexton, Metadata Analyst / Programmer here at Duke University Libraries.  My job focuses on technical support for the metadata-heavy stuff:  finding aids, finding databases (like this one) and digital collections.  I’m part of a great team that includes Sean Aery, who designed the front end for our digital collections platform.  [...]

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